Jeroen1991z rebrands Mike as MikeNL and cuts the upstream cord

A Dutch-flavoured fork stops borrowing the parent project's name and legal pages, and starts standing on its own.

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Jeroen1991z has gone through the product end to end and swapped the "Mike" name for "MikeNL" everywhere a user actually sees it - the sidebar, the browser tab, error screens, even the assistant's own self-references and the default author name on tracked-changes in exported documents. The plumbing underneath keeps the old names to avoid breaking anything, but to anyone using it, this now reads as its own product.

The more telling move is legal. The signup page no longer points to the upstream project's terms and privacy pages; it now links to MikeNL's own. Those pages are still placeholder stubs marked "being drafted," but the wording already nods to the GDPR - Europe's data-protection regime - which signals this fork is aiming squarely at Dutch and EU users.

So what Worth a look for anyone weighing whether to run Mike under their own brand in Europe - the rename checklist and the move to first-party legal pages are both here to copy.

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3 commits from Jeroen1991z/mikeNL, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`88706938`	Rename Mike → MikeNL in all user-facing text	Claude	2026-05-05	↗ GitHub
commit body - Site logo, page title, browser tab title, error page - App sidebar brand name - Workflow list system-workflow label - Column prompt placeholders (AddColumnModal, WFEditColumnModal) - Account models page description - System prompts (SYSTEM_PROMPT, tabular review prompt) - Backend startup log, docx author default, tabular route prompt Internal type names (MikeMessage, MikeProject, etc.) and file names left unchanged to avoid breaking imports and database references. https://claude.ai/code/session_016JxWnFc3baeDgkzDgxY6ex
`800dc9b6`	Replace external terms/privacy links with internal placeholder pages	Claude	2026-05-05	↗ GitHub
commit body Signup page now links to /terms and /privacy instead of mikeoss.com. Added placeholder pages at both routes with an amber notice that the full text is coming soon, plus a back link to the signup page. https://claude.ai/code/session_016JxWnFc3baeDgkzDgxY6ex
`93c9330b`	Rename project to MikeNL and update README	Jeroen1991z	2026-05-06	↗ GitHub
Updated project name and enhanced description to reflect new features and integrations.

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