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Could you report them to Product Hunt? Seems like you have a pretty clear cut case
Thank you! We later realized that although they've gotten a good amount of upvotes & comments, actually many of them came from possible fake accounts / bots ... (fake photos, no past PH/twitter activities, etc)
Focus on things they can't copy, like revenue and customer satisfaction
You can also be a bit cheeky and call them out and then use it for marketing!
https://medium.com/@zreitano/on-behalf-of-hims-patients-than...
This happens occasionally. I've had material copied and have seen other people's entire websites copied. Recently, someone stole one of my colleague's startup app idea and posted their own knockoff with the same name in the app store.
Occasionally, I've contacted people who have copied my work and they've taken it down, which is the least expensive way to handle the problem. Other times, they just ignore my communication. You might contact an attorney to find out what your options are, which could vary for any given situation.
> What would you do in this situation? Chuckle and move on. You cannot build a business on non-defensible stuff like website copy and introduction videos. Time spent worrying about this, or worse, fighting back, is wasted time and will only make things worse. As a startup you have more important things to worry about than this. What makes you better than the competition? I assume it's the network you have built alrea…
Wouldn’t it be possible to just annoy them a lot by sending lots of DMCA takedowns to their hosting platforms?
But if you send the takedowns yourself, you are wasting both their and your time.