The comment is worded poorly, but it’s not bad advise. Being open source they can take a look at the code as an example, or could take it and fork it to meet what they are looking for.

You know of any open source alternatives?

On android, you can probably use hermit to approximate an app. It takes web pages and puts them in. Sand boxed app. I find it works pretty well for lot of websites.

Don’t be evil.

I am fucking sick of monthly subs… Happily pay for kagi. It’s really great at just getting you the results you need sorted right at the top.