From a twitvid perspective, a knockoff certainly hurts. As long as twitvid gets better initial users, it can iterate faster and deliver a better product, that should certainly help.
This also poses a much larger question: Once a YC company launches, and clones pop up, how well does the YC company fare wrt these clones? What are the short term & long term consequences?
This also poses a much larger question: Once a YC company launches, and clones pop up, how well does the YC company fare wrt these clones? What are the short term & long term consequences?