I need an urgent advise from all product creators/designers/engineers/entrepreneurs! Just a few hours ago, I found out that the project that I was working on really hard for the last 6 months exists for a few days already on Kickstarter. It's exactly the same idea, exactly the same product. This is not the first time that something like this happened to me.

1) Did something like this happen to you before, what did you do? It is really frustrating...

2) What would you do?

3) Continue working on it or throw everything in the trash and focus on new things?

4) Is there anything I can do to avoid this?