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Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups

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Post by stocktech »

DeanLJ wrote: post #11

I'm all for open competition but you should have chosen a different name, your choice is just sleazy IMHO. As dorkley said, a rip off of the original and best ... SnapShooter.io

This seems like unfair criticism. I'd say snapshooter and snapshotly are sufficiently different. If the websites were similar, I'd see your point, but snapshotly is different enough that's it a clear price competitor.

Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups

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Post by dorkley »

stocktech wrote: post #14
DeanLJ wrote: post #11

I'm all for open competition but you should have chosen a different name, your choice is just sleazy IMHO. As dorkley said, a rip off of the original and best ... SnapShooter.io

This seems like unfair criticism. I'd say snapshooter and snapshotly are sufficiently different. If the websites were similar, I'd see your point, but snapshotly is different enough that's it a clear price competitor.

The moron ripped off the site content from snap shooter and even left in the company name. He absolutely deserves criticism. The guy is scum.

Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups

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Post by corinadalea »

iiCe89 wrote: post #12
corinadalea wrote: post #2

Interesting product. My DigitalOcean droplets have only weekly backups. I will give it a try for creating daily snapshots.

Your better off with https://snapshooter.io/ imo never let me or my team down

Thanks for the proposal, but I'm good paying less for more.

Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups

#18

Post by corinadalea »

reillychase wrote: post #16

Shameless ripoff of snapshooter.io https://twitter.com/MrSimonBennett/status/120771279509938585...

Even if the screenshots are real and not just an edited source page, the user interface + landing page seems totally different to me.

To me looks like SnapShooter is really afraid of competition and thinks that the market must have only one product.

Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups

#19

Post by dorkley »

corinadalea wrote: post #17
iiCe89 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your better off with https://snapshooter.io/ imo never let me or my team down

Thanks for the proposal, but I'm good paying less for more.

As long as you're happy trusting someone who ripped off another persons business, and was then stupid enough to rip off their site content and forget to change the name.

And then when they were caught, stole another companies privacy policy and again forgot to change the name.

This copycat will last a month or two and then vanish. You'd have to think very little of your own website/business/server to trust someone like that.

I don't really know snapshooter all that well (the one they ripped off) but just googling it I can see its got a bit more credibility, it looks like they're a digitalocean partner which alone speaks volumes.

Re: Show HN: Snapshotly – Automated DigitalOcean Backups

#20

Post by dorkley »

corinadalea wrote: post #18
reillychase wrote: post #16

Shameless ripoff of snapshooter.io https://twitter.com/MrSimonBennett/status/120771279509938585...

Even if the screenshots are real and not just an edited source page, the user interface + landing page seems totally different to me. To me looks like SnapShooter is really afraid of competition and thinks that the market must have only one product.

Google cache shows its a rip off.

I get snapshooter being afraid of competitions, it is a one-trick-pony from the looks of it.

Competition is awesome, it forces people to adapt. Ripping off a product, and it's content is not competition, its theft.

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