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https://preview.redd.it/pa3xpe1sllwh1.png?width=1800&format=png&auto=webp&s=4765c18de848b9583ac7612ab0af585e09a9018e I'm a solo developer. My software, CalcuFloor, grew out of geometry work I'd originally developed for RampNerd, a mini ramp design tool. I started building it in mid-2025 because I couldn't find a tool that actually generated and calculated every flooring piece, cut and offcut. The first public beta launched in January 2026. Since then, I've seen several similar applications appear. Some looked remarkably familiar, but I never had concrete evidence of imitation. Until last weekend. On October 17, I published a video demonstrating live flooring layout rotation, alignment and cut recalculation. 27 hours later, PlanIt Flooring posted a remarkably similar demonstration. Even the on-screen wording was the same: “Every cut recalculated.” Someone commented: “This looks exactly like Calcufloor" So I investigated. In PlanIt's publicly accessible source code, I found development comments under issue #468 stating: “Jason, 18 Oct 2026, from a CalcuFloor film” And another instruction: “add this function to the design” The corresponding functionality was implemented. I preserved the source, verified the video timestamps and compared the implementations. The underlying code differs. I'm not claiming source-code theft. But that's exactly the problem. The hardest part of developing software isn't necessarily writing code. It's discovering solutions, designing the logic and UX, testing, failing and refining. Now a public demonstration of that work can become someone else's development specification. With AI coding agents making implementation increasingly cheap, what happens to the independent developers who do the original design work? Has anyone else experienced this? How did you handle it?   submitted by   /u/Proof-Pause3542 [link]   [comments]

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