We have our first official intended copycat. One of the first useless clones in the ALT game, franko.
I was genuinely curious what's different about franko so I asked the dev on reddit. Here's the answer and yes after I may have been an ass, I don't really care.
Basically he is taking features and adding them as the real innovators make them up in hope of his coin not doing.
Then I saw this on twitter and realized closed source at first is a good thing. He even wants to rename Darksend to fit his shitcoin.
Franko is below 'Junkcoin' 'Grumpycoin' and 'Flappycoin. , It's going down 14.59% today while 99% of others alts are way in the green because BTC is rising. Your coin is dead, and adding features from other coins as defibrillator blasts won't help it. Flatline.
P.S. props to that @bodskibod for thinking it's called Dark's End. You're smart.
Please don't worry about this. Yes, other coins will emulate us. However, the license, though open source, will require them to keep the name "darksend". They won't be allowed to change that.
They also won't get any of it until it's finished. By then people will know darkcoin.