[rogerkirkness]

Big companies in your industry won't even notice you until you take one of their Top 50 customers, and by that point you're probably well into single digit millions in ARR if not tens of millions. Small companies in your space may pay attention to you if you raise >$1M or start to show up in a lot of deals. No one else will care at all, especially customers, unless one of those milestones are met. If it's that easy to copy what you're building, it probably isn't an expensive enough problem to sustain a business. Execution and maintenance are so much harder than building an MVP, even if someone copied the MVP chances are sustaining support and their finances will crush them.