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What it feels like when a competitor utterly rips off your entire company (medium.com/dhassell)
52 points by hollien on Dec 2, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



Wow. It's one thing to steal content but this takes theft to a whole new level. This @mitchellharper guy said he came up with the business idea on a napkin. Pretty despicable.


I am seriously looking forward to a response from PeopleSpark about this post. Will stay tuned!

Edit: It does appear that they've made major changes to their site since those screen shots were taken.


Here's his response: https://medium.com/@mitchellharper/competing-against-indiffe...

Guess the adage, "there are always two sides to a story" comes to mind.


For anyone wondering, here's Mitch's response: https://medium.com/@mitchellharper/competing-against-indiffe...


It's so easy for people to figure out when you copy language or basic code. It never ends well.


Got to love healthy competition.


Definitely, it's a good sign for an emerging market.


at least 15Five know's they have a business




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