Triplegangers, a seven-person company specializing in 3D digital models, faced a significant outage as OpenAI's bot flooded its website with server requests akin to a DDoS attack. The CEO, Oleksandr Tomchuk, revealed that the bot attempted to scrape over 65,000 product pages, using hundreds of IP addresses. Despite having terms of service against unauthorized scraping, the company lacked a properly configured robot.txt file initially. Following the chaos, Triplegangers implemented safeguards to block the bot, but concerns over data rights and potential AWS costs remain. The incident highlights vulnerabilities for small online businesses against aggressive AI crawlers.