@Javalist wrote:
I've been working on this project since April this year and to be sincere, it was supposed to be the first of its kind in Nigeria when it launched. For some reasons and validations, the work on the project did not complete until early this month of December and I set 1st January 2017 to be the launch date.
I worked so hard and remained so excited towards the product launch, however last week I was going through Nairaland, I saw a thread where a guy was introducing exactly a replica of the project I've been working on since April this year. To be honest, the guy even added some 2 or 3 cool features lacking in my product, but every other thing remains same. I quickly run a WHOIS on his domain and found out that he registered the domain name in July and info from the site show that it went live in August this same year.
Because this is the first time I've co-worked or would be launching a startup, I'm confused on what to do next since the exact project I've been working on for 8 months has already been launched by someone else. If mine launches as well, it may sound as if I'm pirating someone's original intellectual property. What exactly startup founders do when things like this happen?
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