Hello Hive account@hyperfundit team.

With all due respect, the business model that you speak of existed on Hive account@steemfleamarket since December last year - complete with our own submit form and regional hashtags in the hundreds.

I understand that I should have negotiated things with you first, however, given that you have set up Hive account@theshop using beautiful markdown (it's not a "site" and it's not hosted by you) and provided a private posting key for anyone to use - I assumed the whole idea was sitting on the open-source side of things so to speak. Is it not?

I also understand your concerns regarding "competition"- but Hive account@steemfleamarket is not here to fund projects - it's here to help grow individual accounts and engage the community, using a completely different and original vision, far ahead of Hive account@theshop.

Please acquaint yourselves with my introduction post when the project was born here: https://busy.org/@steemfleamarket/steem-flea-market-is-now-live-give-your-stuff-away-trade-buy-or-sell-and-earn-sbd-just-by-commenting

In the same spirit of your comment, it can easily be seen that, the idea of Hive account@theshop, could also be classified as a direct copy of Hive account@steemfleamarket. Do you see what I'm saying? Things get complex in the space of free market ideas.

Can I respect your request to simply "get rid of" our Hive account@steemfleamarket? Of course and I'd be willing to do so. But I would first like to hear your thoughts on this matter, now that we're looking at things from a different angle.

We will have a separate website for our needs, but in the mean time - things are staying as they are. Thanks for reaching out guys and I hope you can also see where I'M coming from. No one is going to be taking anything away from anyone, we shouldn't worry about that. Ultimately - let steemians decide what they want to do with Hive account@steemfleamarket - those are the people that own it, after all. (>‿◠)✌

Hope we find a middle ground together.

_{p.s. downvoting is not how you fund projects. And thanks to some clever algorithm, we have gained 200+ bot followers within a minute thanks to the #website hashtag that you've created - do you know anything about this? Not pointing fingers but I thought it was interesting.}