If it's as you suggest, and there are people that have done this previously. it would seem there was insufficient marketing. It would be interesting to hear the details of this incident and thought process.
SmallQR officially went beta only the day before I see the lilqr domain was registered so perhaps Siavash did not know about it, or perhaps he was inspired by it and thought he could do better. Either way there is a more advanced and refined service out there.
