Oddbean

Yet another lnbits clone. Because the lnbits model makes sense. Their custodial business model didn't make sense, so they pivoted into making something that already exists rather than being original.

This is a fair criticism in some ways,but not in others. LNBits can do most of what Alby Hub does and WAY more, but is less approachable. It's also more difficult to get it set up with Zeus, especially if your node is Tor only and you want to connect to your wallet quickly and reliably while you are out and about. Moreover, having a lightning address on LNBits requires you to own a domain and have some additional technical know-how to set up the address service. Meanwhile, Alby Hub doesn't do all the things LNBits does, but it is dead simple to set up, connects quickly and reliably to Zeus even if your node is Tor only, and every wallet you create that connects to an Alby account has a lightning address without needing to mess around with configuring your own domain.

I am not aware of many LNBits clones out there, and while making LNBits better and more approachable would be good, I also think competition is good. What other LNBits clones were you referring to?

I don't see how Alby Hub should be any LNBits clone?! It's a lightning wallet built around NWC and has a completely different approach and is a totally different product. It does not even try to do most of the things that LNBits does... OK, it is a lightning wallet and also works with LND - same as LNBits maybe... and many other lightning wallets and tools out there. Did you even look at it? We also support NWC development for LNBits, add support for LNBits in libraries like bitcoin connect and generally recommend LNBits to many projects... To me a diverse lightning ecosystem is important and benefits all projects. Imo there is also no point to talk like that about other open source projects, we're in the same boat of working for Bitcoin and lightning, aren't we?