Basically the title!

I don’t know what to do… I was slowly building out my company that is very dependent on community interaction. I’ve been very vocal about it online and the responses have been amazing. Unfortunately this is also got on the radar of another multi million dollar cooperation, because the online discussion spread to their Facebook page on several occasions. They have ran away with my success and are now launching an exact copy of my idea.

I’m gutted because my idea is not protected. I couldn’t do that this early on… and I’m sure they were banking on that. The cooperation announced their copycat idea early, before its even live, just to get in the action. And within hours they’ve already got ten of thousands of people liking their new business, because they started with a million followers…

What do I do now? Do I give up, because I never compete with their resources? Knowing that it will allow them to grow quicker and more professionally than I ever could… providing more value to my audience.

Or do I continue, knowing that they can literally steal every creative/business idea I put out there, to make a better version of it themselves.

** literally my nightmare **