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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by paulhauggis on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:34PM (#3973448)
Your idea has virtually no barrier to entry. Expect more people copying it. I could probably write a script to do it in roughly an hour.

Instead, think about how you can add something unique.

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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by verelo on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:36PM (#3973461)
Our overall product is much larger, this is really just one feature.
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by pan69 on Monday May 14, 2012 @06:01PM (#3973584)
Exactly. It's a feature. And an easy one for anyone to implement.

But. It's also a good idea and take credit where credit's due. I'd take it as an awkward compliment that Pingdom copied it.

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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by Killswitch on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:47PM (#3973521)
Although I do feel they copied you mostly because the look and feel of it, I also don't think they meant to as the type of service that Pingdom offers is very similar to yours. I see it more as Target saying "oh Walmart now has a grocery section, we need one!" type of ordeals.
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by darylteo on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:38PM (#3973481)
Monitor the uptime of PingDom... so that people know if Pingdom goes down.
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by irunbackwards on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:44PM (#3973505)
Is yours the Technorati Top 100 as well? I feel like this has been done many times in the past, both by individuals and businesses of monitoring products.
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by verelo on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:55PM (#3973551)
Nah, ours is our personal favorites + a few others that we felt were popular at a global scale.

If you have any ideas for sites we could add I'd love to hear them!

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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by mac_z on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @01:10AM (#3975005)
Who copied who if Pingdom's public reports have been around for over a year?

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/02/08/new-public-report-from-p...

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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by jamespcole2 on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @03:54AM (#3975501)
I've been using http://api-status.com/ for ages, seems pretty similar
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by mikepotter on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:50PM (#3973535)
The UI is nearly identical. Tough to argue that they took your idea and made it their own.
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by gtCameron on Monday May 14, 2012 @06:03PM (#3973592)
Pingdom's UI is the same as their public status report feature they released over a year ago: http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/02/08/new-public-report-from-p...

They didn't copy the UI, they just made a list of websites using a feature they already have.

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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by jcc80 on Monday May 14, 2012 @06:00PM (#3973577)
Yes, success. Suppose it validates that it's a cool marketing idea. I'm sure you have others (and those will be copied too...if you're lucky). Think of where else you can post this to get some attention (sorry I have no suggestions). Maybe show side by side of the UI in the blog post?
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by HarrietJones on Monday May 14, 2012 @06:41PM (#3973753)
It is a great idea. I shall be copying it for my own web monitoring site.
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by abcd_f on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:56PM (#3973559)
What idea is that exactly?
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Re:Pingdom copied our idea, success?! by ScottWhigham on Monday May 14, 2012 @07:37PM (#3973963)
Yeah, that was my thought. This is a glorified report, not an "idea".
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