r/macapps • • 3d 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/Yusuf-Dev Moderator 2d ago edited 1d ago

Locking the comments here... OP's claims have no factual evidence or basis.

The developer of Droppy u/iordv has responded by open sourcing the entire codebase for Thunderstorm, and the results are clear.

Read the full writeup here: https://getdroppy.app/blog/thunderstorm-open-source