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Even Amazon don't do that, they get the working class to do that, they're the middle men.

But you started to compete with your customers. Good luck.

-DigitalOcean ex-customer

This is implying that you or others were creating managed products using Droplets? How is it DigitalOcean's fault if they want to create more vertically integrated products using their own technology?

Did you try to launch your own cloud offering on someone else's cloud? Did you expect the other cloud would never expand their offering?

I doubt they ever tried to compete with you, and probably didn't even know you were doing something similar. You were just able to come to market before they felt they were ready with a similar product.