Life of a Solopreneur — Copycats

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I fully agree we should look at others for inspiration and not to directly copy their work. But I'm curious at what point you would define someone as a copycat. Multiple people can come up with a similar/the same idea independently. If someone builds the product 1st, is the 2nd now a copycat? People can even look at existing products and create their own versions which improve on certain aspects. Is this a copycat? For example, there are plenty of Next.js boilerplates out there. I'm sure some have been created after seeing the success of existing ones. If someone creates a Next.js boilerplate offering identical features to an existing one but has written the code, integrations etc their own way - is this being a copycat?

Nope, it's not. ShipFast is not the first boilerplate, and certainly won't be the last. But copy-pasting a landing page, changing colors, and calling it a day, is copycat and unethical.

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