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0 pointsbenologist7y ago0 comments

I mean they will inevitably go through the websites people are hosting on AWS looking for profitable software to copy, because that's what Amazon has always done to people making money on Amazon.

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harrumph7y ago

Thanks - I suspected you were saying as much. MongoDB aside, can you share examples of this process?

benologistOP7y ago

Some of the physical merchandise they've copied, they have many more brands:

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011

They have been copying SaaS straight from their partners for years already too:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn...

I think you can add Heroku (AWS Beanstalk) even before that.

harrumph7y ago

Thanks again!

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0 pointsbenologist7y ago0 comments

I mean they will inevitably go through the websites people are hosting on AWS looking for profitable software to copy, because that's what Amazon has always done to people making money on Amazon.

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harrumph7y ago

Thanks - I suspected you were saying as much. MongoDB aside, can you share examples of this process?

benologistOP7y ago

Some of the physical merchandise they've copied, they have many more brands:

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011

They have been copying SaaS straight from their partners for years already too:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn...

I think you can add Heroku (AWS Beanstalk) even before that.

harrumph7y ago

Thanks again!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse