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Comment on Ask HN: The project you're working on already exists. What to do?

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Has this ever happend to anyone?

It happens to most people. Very few ideas are unique. In fact most aren't.

I'm also looking to avoid legal problems.

Is your product/service classed as competition or do they provide a product/service that's copyrighted?

My project is just a fun website and is kind of like DearBlankPleaseBlank, FMYLife, and TextsFromLastNight.

It would be like me creating a website called ScrewMyLife and finding out that FMYLife already exists. The only difference is that FMYLife is wildly popular and all clones automatically fail. My competitor has probably received a couple hundred thousand visits (the content is very viral), but not enough that a well designed website could easily crush it.

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