Correction: Only Jacob Thornton is one of the co-founders of Pierre; the other one is Ian Ownbey (sources: https://presentofai.com/spotlight/pierre.co, https://cellcog.ai/blog/openai-acquires-pierre/)

Were you aware of git-bug when you created gitsocial? If so, which patterns did you reuse and which ones did you decide to diverge from? Or would you say the two projects embody fundamentally different visions?