It is very much to everyone's benefit to know as much about what is going on in your space. So I would try every product that is comparable to see what people a

It is very much to everyone's benefit to know as much about what is going on in your space. So I would try every product that is comparable to see what people are doing, what makes each product different, why people might choose to use one product over another, and where your product fits into the overall space that you are in. It is a regular practice for all companies, as it should be. I don't think it should matter if I use my real name or not honestly. I am becoming a user to get an idea of the space. I think that is a completely reasonable thing to do, and besides, if the company is searching their users for their competition then I think that they are not spending enough time on their product and more on trying to stop their competition. It is by no means immoral, you are doing research on the space you are in by looking at the publicly available products out there. Now if you were somehow getting access to internal documents or development releases of the product then I would say yes that is immoral but looking at a competition's available product is perfectly fine in my opinion. Now a couple points I'd like to bring up about this is that a) you should not be doing things such as writing negative reviews of the product b) you shouldn't be using the product to make other users' experience with the product negative c) Use the information gained to get an idea of what is out there, what users like about the product, and how your product is similar and different. Not as a new feature list.