Show HN: How I dealt with someone trying to build a copy my business (austin.craigslist.org)

5 points by chriscampbell 13y ago ↗ HN

Someone posted an ad on Craigslist offering to pay $750 to build a copy of my company, Review Trackers. I noticed the ad within a few hours of it being posted and decided to redirect the traffic (since they linked to us in the posting) to our Rails developer job posting with a little note.

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[dead] chriscampbell 13y ago ↗

sp332 13y ago ↗

You... copied him back? I don't get it.

chriscampbell 13y ago ↗

Looks like they just updated the link in the CL ad to another website (was previously a direct link to ReviewTrackers.com), funny enough the new link is also to a website that I own. Now redirecting the new link to this URL as well- http://www.reviewtrackers.com/company/careers/#rails

sp332 13y ago ↗

Oh, I see! That's an awesome response :)

[deleted] 13y ago ↗

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mnicole 13y ago ↗

Hey Chris, great way to get back! My only suggestion is to add some larger margins between your job listings for readability and maybe make the "Hey Craigslist’er" headline a little larger or a different color to stand out. Initially I couldn't tell what I was looking at.