Someone Is Impersonating FluidVoice, and we genuinely need your help
Today, I'm sad to say that the system is broken.
For the past year, we've been building FluidVoice, a free dictation app now used by 50,000+ people across the globe.
It helps people with disabilities communicate and people with ADHD stay focused. We kept it free because we believe tools like this shouldn't be locked behind a paywall.
We've been building it on our own time, with no pay. We never expected anything in return. We just wanted to make something useful, earn people's trust, and do right by our users.
And for months now, a fraudulent website has been impersonating us.
Today, it's the SECOND result on Google when someone searches for FluidVoice. They even claim it as "OFFICIAL DOWNLOAD", lol. (Please do not click on it!)
The real FluidVoice is only at
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altic.dev/fluid
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fluidvoice.com
We've tried everything we can think of to take it down. But nothing has worked.
@Dynadot, the registrar, sends us a canned reply and tells us to go file a legal dispute.
@HostGator, the host, wants us to pay $1500 to take legal action?
@Cloudflare doesn't respond at all.
NOTHING has worked. No one is helping put an end to this.
So here we are. We give our work away for free, and now we're being told we have to pay to stop someone from pretending to be us.
It's ridiculously easy for shameless opportunists to steal someone's identity, put up a fake website, impersonate something people have poured their heart into building, and get away with it.
How is it so easy to impersonate someone, and this hard to stop it?
Why does the burden fall on the people being impersonated instead of the people enabling it?
Doesn't this feel like it should be illegal?
We should be spending our time making FluidVoice better for people who rely on it. Instead, we're spending it fighting people who are pretending to be us.
I'm genuinely tired of this.
If you believe this is wrong, please repost. I just want this to reach someone who can help us put an end to it.
It shouldn't be this hard to protect something you've worked so hard to build.
Is there anyone at all who can help?