Ask HN: What to do when a Chinese startup clones your website?
Dear HN, I'm CEO of a Germany-based eSports startup and we have a problem. Today we were approached by a Chinese user of our website who told us that a China-based startup has launched a direct clone of our website aimed at the Chinese market. Our website https://strivewire.com is a host of for-money eSports tournaments in the Hearthstone vertical, but we are working on expanding to other games as well. The website in question is a very obvious clone of ours and has both .com and .cn domains: - www.haogegebisai.com - www.chosengamer.com Basically they copied all the design and even our logo down to the actual URLs. I've added their CEO on WeChat and inquired about this, and he said they are big fans of our startup. But he also mentioned that they already have investors. Their website launched two days ago and already has a bunch of activity. We've talked about th
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Dear HN, I'm CEO of a Germany-based eSports startup and we have a problem. Today we were approached by a Chinese user of our website who told us that a China-based startup has launched a direct clone of our website aimed at the Chinese market. Our website https://s
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- bflesch
- Ended
- 2016
- Source
- hackernews