“Luckily we’re bigger now, and crucially have a lot of money to pay for top lawyers now if we’re forced to go that route.”
Running code in a browser is nothing new, and Replit’s own pitch admits it. Its CEO still threatened a former intern over a hobby project that did the same thing. There was no stolen code, just venture money and a lawyer. The apology came after the post hit the top of Hacker News, not before.