Friday's launch felt good. We posted on LinkedIn, Reddit, the GitHub community threads. The repo was already appearing in Google's AI Overview — organic discovery, zero paid distribution. But I'd made a mistake. The Comparison Table Problem While building, I'd come across another community project: Save Buddy . The person behind it had done serious work — reverse engineering the original Buddy implementation, documenting the hidden _react service endpoint Anthropic had been running, and building tooling to help people restore their existing companions. As of around April 10th, Anthropic had shut that endpoint down entirely. But Save Buddy had done the forensics. In my README, I'd added a comparison table between my project and Save Buddy. The problem: I hadn't read their README carefully. I misrepresented what they'd built. As soon as I realized it, I pulled the table and added proper attribution. ⚠️ Lesson Learned "Read the README before you write about someone else's project.…