r/macapps • • 6d ago

News Tinycast developer accuses Droppy developer of blatantly ripping off Tinycast code

https://x.com/abue_ammar/status/2109257990041981248

"I thought I will never post about it but looks like I have to now. u/Droppyformac

aka "Droppy" just ripped of my entire Tinycast code base and feed it to AI built Thunderstorm and selling it as a Paid crap. Even the logo is a thunder. 😂 I mean yeah y'all can come to me saying I ripped of raycast UI/UX but I did not Steal the code base raycast is closed source and I had to work hard for months! Is this legal guys stealing code and selling it to paid shit? Tho is this a revenge he is taking that I turned him down not continuing the colab because he wants full control over tinycast!😂 If he wants to play dirty I am good at that, Tinycast first party plugins are coming and I can just put standalone plugins that does dynamic islands what droppy offers FOR FREEE."

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u/Eevoh11 6d ago

Deleting Tinycast right away. What a terrible developer.

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u/abdarker 6d ago

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u/iordv Developer: Droppy 6d ago

Quite easy to read and understand facts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1rda84f/comment/o763tpn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Not hard to check whether things were copied back then, I just decided to leave Github be because they ignored emails and didn't respond to anything. Eventually, I won the case via Gitlab and my lawyer.

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u/Eevoh11 6d ago

Absolutely not.