Spot on! We stole a lot of ideas from the whole CouchDB application space. @caolan, the Kan.so dev is currently looking into Hoodie as well. As far as original

Spot on! We stole a lot of ideas from the whole CouchDB application space. @caolan, the Kan.so dev is currently looking into Hoodie as well. As far as originality, we choose a different design approach. We want to cater to people who barely get jQuery and give them a tool to build larger apps. We are building the technology downwards from that idea towards the bits and pieces we have. One of the fun things about Hoodie is that there is nothing technically new in it. Existing ideas and tools are just put together a different way.