[frindo]

I regularly chat with folks running competitors to my business. It's a fairly niche space so there's not many people who understand what we're dealing with day to day.

I remove them from my user forums when I see them join, mostly because I like to post my product roadmap there. They could join pseudonymously, but time spent worrying about competitors is time better spent thinking about other stuff.

End of the day, a competitor can only beat you by building a better product or doing better marketing. Neither of those is possible by copying.