Protecting a website concept?

[swillsy]

Hi All, I've had a quick google however wondered if anyone on here had real world experience as there are mixed messages. I've been learning more front end development during the lockdown and I'm finally close to releasing an online platform which looks to be unique for businesses to use.
However the idea could be copied relatively quickly if a company wanted to. The company I work for do not have anything like it currently and I've tried searching online for a similar tool without success. I promise its not a left handed screwdriver

Is there anything I could be doing now to protect the idea or is it not worth exploring and just crack on with trying to sell it?

 

[swillsy]

You got a demo of it?

Nothing online yet but I've been working on this video tutorial showing how it works from a user perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

 

[swillsy]

Ha! Tom - No such thing as free time! Always hustling this is a family forum otherwise you know I would give a shout out to Barry.

 

[swillsy]

Few days late, but you can definitely protect your source code, if a company cloned your source code and used it in their own site, you can absolutely claim copyright, however you can't claim copyright if they take your concept but write their own source code which essentially achieves the same thing.

Yep this is how I understand it. If they copy paste then you can get into issues whereas if you're inspired by it and write similar code then there aren't any problems.

Thanks for feedback guys - I'll let you know how it goes