A legal threat written in a cute and witty tone is still a legal threat

With that argument, Apple should've felt bad for Mac vs PC ads and Pepsi should've felt bad for their Pepsi Challenge campaign against Coke. It's what challenger brands do.

I see it slightly different - Mac vs PC or Pepsi Challenge calls out the competition and tries to show the consumer why the product is better. This seems to be marketing with an attempt to confuse the brand.

I don't think there is any brand confusion, it is clear the differences and even this post shows the difference

https://www.popsurvey.com/blog/popsurvey-is-40-faster-than-s...

Agree. Grasshopper is just outside of Boston and out of last 75+ VC's and PE firms that have reached out to me, only 5 have been based in Boston with SF and NY leading the pack.

It was a combination of that as well as the potential of the product to fill a real need once we got customer feedback.

Nope, no one quit - the core team is now on other products in the company. Check back for parts 2 and beyond for updates, great lessons learned.

Knowing when to pull the plug on a product is a key part of growing a company aimed at developing multiple products. We'll go through all the lessons learned over the next few weeks and reasons why we shut it down - keep checking back, lots of valuable info.