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Show HN: I cloned a YC funded app in a day as an MVP

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I saw this app youlearn.ai on YC and thought of building it. They are claiming to have 1M+ users with just one feature which is to convert your learning material into summaries, quizzes etc.

I gave this a shot and cloned almost most of the features in just 9+ hours of continous vibe coding (with 20% manual though). Now I'm selling this on mvp marketplace. Might probably open source it in future or give it free.

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I very much like this. What you have effectively demonstrated is that startups based purely on LLM prompts have no technical moat. But they are also a lot of successful software companies where their core product is not too difficult to clone. With myspace around, the founding idea for Facebook also wasn’t exactly new.

That means what you have really proven here is that distribution and polishing are the crucial ingredients for a successful startup.

Very cool. Meta thought is to monitor the YC portfolio for what is and isn't getting traction and enable rapidly vibe coding clones, brute forcing towards success (there was an EU accelerator/umbrella group that did something similar pre Gen AI, but the name escapes me). "Platform of generators" sort of thing. Regardless, well done!

(foundational models->foundational agents->platform for orchestration)

Rocket Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet

It's honestly a really good idea in general, but probably fails if you don't execute even faster than incumbents in new markets. Another company in Brazil does this I think.

Companies, even startups, despite "we listen to users" actually move very slowly, and the gap between what is said and what is possible and what is better than currently available (like, in an app) is huge.

Yeah that's what I'm testing right now with mvpwrappers.com. If any of the mvp gain traction (not behind a paywall right now and demo is free), I'll build the bigger version of that. With vibe-coding and more than 8 years of experience in development I can literally clone any YC app as an MVP in within a week.

8 hours is still time. You should worry about distribution. Otherwise no one will see those MVPs

I thought the project was going to be related to this other company backed by YC:

https://miyagilabs.ai/

Why is this a thing? Google NotebookLM does precisely this for free. its like we are in the car phone era, with cell phones just around the corner.

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