Pingdom copied our idea, success?!

Your idea has virtually no barrier to entry. Expect more people copying it. I could probably write a script to do it in roughly an hour.

Instead, think about how you can add something unique.

Although I do feel they copied you mostly because the look and feel of it, I also don't think they meant to as the type of service that Pingdom offers is very similar to yours. I see it more as Target saying "oh Walmart now has a grocery section, we need one!" type of ordeals.

Monitor the uptime of PingDom... so that people know if Pingdom goes down.

Is yours the Technorati Top 100 as well? I feel like this has been done many times in the past, both by individuals and businesses of monitoring products.

Who copied who if Pingdom's public reports have been around for over a year?

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/02/08/new-public-report-from-p...

I've been using http://api-status.com/ for ages, seems pretty similar

The UI is nearly identical. Tough to argue that they took your idea and made it their own.

Yes, success. Suppose it validates that it's a cool marketing idea. I'm sure you have others (and those will be copied too...if you're lucky). Think of where else you can post this to get some attention (sorry I have no suggestions). Maybe show side by side of the UI in the blog post?

It is a great idea. I shall be copying it for my own web monitoring site.

What idea is that exactly?