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Side question. If you wrote it as a side-project while at Facebook, doesn’t that work belong to them? How did you launch a business on this idea, did you strike an agreement with them or are you taking the do-first-ask-permission-later approach?


It was a different tool and tight to the internal issue tracking system that Facebook is using. We realized there is value in having a tool that simplifies the interaction with overloaded web apps and it's crucial to cover many of them. Obviously, we didn't share any code and built Raycast after we left.


Probably you mean you didn’t write any code or notes on the idea until after you left, so there was no copyrightable IP that you were under contract to share while you were employed? But I get the idea. Thanks that’s helpful.




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