Yeah they were big stupid. They reached out in a "solo founders" telegram group I'm in to tell me that they liked my product and they were going to give it a try for their own group
Then I saw them start a trial. After a few days, when I noticed they hadn't done much with the trial except log into the dashboard and look at all the settings, I reached out -> radio silence
The trial expired and a charge was attempted and they used a stolen or limited credit card, so it failed. Then they quickly canceled their subscription, maybe hoping I didn't notice the failed charge. At that point I looked at their Twitter and saw they had just launched a competing product with a very similar logo and landing page haha
I called them out in that group for pulling that kind of move (and abusing a trial) as well as the tweet I mentioned.
So reckless and stupid. The community of people actually creating and shipping products is pretty small, so it's mind blowing people think they can get away with this...then continue to fuck over other people.
Anyway, I'm glad you were able to ban the email address, and hopefully he's too stupid to create a new one as a workaround. These people don't last in the game anyway.
Yeah they were big stupid. They reached out in a "solo founders" telegram group I'm in to tell me that they liked my product and they were going to give it a try for their own group
Then I saw them start a trial. After a few days, when I noticed they hadn't done much with the trial except log into the dashboard and look at all the settings, I reached out -> radio silence
The trial expired and a charge was attempted and they used a stolen or limited credit card, so it failed. Then they quickly canceled their subscription, maybe hoping I didn't notice the failed charge. At that point I looked at their Twitter and saw they had just launched a competing product with a very similar logo and landing page haha
I called them out in that group for pulling that kind of move (and abusing a trial) as well as the tweet I mentioned.
So reckless and stupid. The community of people actually creating and shipping products is pretty small, so it's mind blowing people think they can get away with this...then continue to fuck over other people.
Anyway, I'm glad you were able to ban the email address, and hopefully he's too stupid to create a new one as a workaround. These people don't last in the game anyway.
Yeah this was over 6 months ago. He completely gave up as I predicted he would and the clone site is offline.
Very few people are actually willing to commit to building something over the long term.