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Technically you can. He can't own the concept, and if he didn't contribute anything you're more or less good; he never bought your code or anything, did he?

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Nope. He hasn't even reimbursed me for the domain name. He was supposed to get business cards but never did.

You're all good.

*You might need to change names, if he has any claim at creating it.

I even came up with the name

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