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I don’t understand why downloading code is such a difficult feature for a website builder — I get the competitive aspect. BUT! It would bring so many users to your system and really would be great marketing — why not compete by giving people what they want and just practice love in not lock in? Especially when you’re already there with the OSS license?

Seems a real missed opportunity.

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> practice love in not lock in

I haven’t heard this phrase before, it’s such a great way to describe how I like to do things, which I would have written as “compete on quality rather than treachery”

Lots of companies will behave this way... when times are good. They can be fairweather friends at best. Eventually it's time to batten down the hatches, and that's when licenses change, interop gets removed, etc. like we've seen again and again.

If that were true there wouldn't be companies in Open Source.

We are launching a CLI soon that will allow syncing data and self-publishing, starting with Vercel as first destination.

You know that's not what users actually want though, right?

Still want export. Not vercel.

Really don’t want another locked in platform.

Can’t be clearer. Abandoned the platform after this comment because it’s just missing the point. Be for the Internet not the VCs dude.

I think you responded to the wrong person. I'm agreeing with you

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