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title: _fork_
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  _Fork_ — in this channel's material, to take an existing app as the starting
  point for your own version, remaking and modifying it for your needs rather
  than building from scratch.
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# \_fork\_

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/fork-6be1b45565d6

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

_Fork_ — in this channel's material, to take an existing app as the starting point for your own version, remaking and modifying it for your needs rather than building from scratch.

In this episode, **Geoffrey Litt** and Dan Shipper build a podcast-guest app in about an hour with ChatGPT and Replit. *Fork* comes up in the context of **remixing someone else's app**: instead of starting from a blank project, you take an existing app as your starting point and modify it for your own needs. This fits the episode's broader argument that LLMs change who gets to build software — when an app is easy to fork and iterate on, exploring someone else's work becomes a practical way to understand and adapt it, a core idea of **malleable software**. [^2f66cf63@0]