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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by arbol on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:51AM (#25581226)
Wow that really sucks! Sorry to hear that. I suppose you would've needed patents on the idea to stop them from stealing it.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by vmception on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:37PM (#25588578)
Or they were already working on it and hadn't announced, and he would have spent all the time and more money working on the patent only to see Facebook launch the same thing before he even filed it. Assuming there wasn't already a patent out there that covered this.
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