Nah 😭 forking a repo is actually one of the most normal things on GitHub. It doesn’t automatically mean you’re stealing someone’s idea at all. GitHub was literally designed around collaboration, learning from other projects, contributing improvements, and building on existing work.

Most developers fork repos to experiment, learn how something works, fix bugs, or customize projects for their own needs. In fact, a lot of open-source maintainers want people to fork their work because it helps the project grow and spread.

The only time it starts becoming questionable is if someone copies a project, removes credit, and pretends they invented everything from scratch 😭 that’s the part people usually dislike.

So honestly, don’t feel bad about forking repos. Just respect the license, give credit where appropriate, and use it as a way to learn and build cool things. Half of programming is basically developers borrowing ideas from each other with extra caffeine involved 😭