How I dealt with someone trying to build a copy my business
Someone posted an ad on Craigslist offering to pay $750 to build a copy of my company, Review Trackers. I noticed the ad within a few hours of it being posted and decided to redirect the traffic (since they linked to us in the posting) to our Rails developer job posting with a little note.
How I dealt with someone trying to build a copy my business launched on March 25, 2013 with 5 votes, #187 of 671 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
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