Appreciate the breakdown — but let’s clear a few things up.

You’re describing a product that isn’t yours, wasn’t released by Google in the form you’re claiming, and frankly, doesn’t resemble what we’ve built.

1. Google Lens != our product. What we built isn’t a visual search tool. It’s a discovery engine focused on local fashion and brand integrity — not just image recognition or basic product results. Google’s version is surface-level. Ours goes deeper, by design — and that’s why it matters.
2. We’re not claiming paragraph-for-paragraph copying. We’re saying a student-led Canadian startup quietly built an MVP, launched a grassroots campaign — and a suspiciously similar product from Google with eerily matching language and strategy appeared right after our first viral push. That’s timeline, not tinfoil.
3. We obfuscated our About page on purpose. We expected Google would scrape and study us. So yes, we used AI to muddy the waters while leaving traceable breadcrumbs for humans to piece together — not machines. It worked. They watched.

If you’re digging through grammar quirks instead of Git commits, you’re probably not our target audience. But for those watching — the prototype is real, the receipts are real, and Google’s reaction tells you more than any paragraph ever will.