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Amazon has made it their business to clone 10,000s of items and software's just as easy to copy, they have already cloned multiple open source products and even
by benologist 7y ago
Amazon has made it their business to clone 10,000s of items and software's just as easy to copy, they have already cloned multiple open source products and even commercial stuff they saw hosted on AWS.
The only thing stopping them from routinely cloning stuff they see on AWS is nothing. They are accused of using vendor sales data to decide which products to clone, well that front-row seat watching you scale infers revenue too. Whenever Bezos wants Amazon will assign thousands of developers to cherry-picking SaaS and software to clone.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partner_products/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn...
- StreamBright 7y agoDo you think they were able to clone it because it was hosted on AWS?
- benologist 7y agoThey were able to clone it because copying is easier than having the idea and building something for the first time and verifying that anyone wants it. Hosting is analogous to the sales data, it helps prioritize who you should clone first. Cloning is just practice for many developers. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=show%20hn%20clone&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...