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A Freelance Dev Caught a Startup Copying His Code Because Their Site Still Pings His Hotjar Account
An EU freelance developer posted to r/SaaS that a startup which walked away from license negotiations shipped his tool anyway — and he knows because their production site is still sending session data to his own Hotjar account. The thread hit 463 upvotes and 112 comments and was the day's highest-scoring non-AI-lab story across the monitored subreddits. The detail worth internalizing for anyone shipping client work: third-party analytics snippets are unintentional provenance beacons, and leaving one in is the modern equivalent of a copied map's trap street.
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