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Christ, how many sites did you steal the design from? http://bettermeans.com/front/pricing.html https://github.com/plans http://bettermeans.com/images/s

by timdorr 16y ago

Christ, how many sites did you steal the design from? http://bettermeans.com/front/pricing.html https://github.com/plans http://bettermeans.com/images/static/dashboard.png http://a.gaborcselle.com/blog/uploaded_images/pivotal_screenshot-708013.png You didn't even change the class and id names. Gah!

jpcx01 16y ago
Yeah, after watching the video, I was wondering if this was just a rebranding of Pivotal Tracker. If you're going to steal an interface... please don't steal from such an ugly and disfunctional web app. Having to use Pivotal Tracker for 3 months on a client project made me batshit crazy. It's one of the worst user interfaces I've ever suffered long term.
- kabuks 16y ago
  I respectfully disagree that we stole the dashboard design. We were definitely inspired by pivotal tracker bit we didn't steal anything.
  - tswicegood 16y ago
    I haven't used the dashboard, so I'm basing this solely on the video, but... umm, yeah, you did pretty much rip off Pivotal Tracker. You moved the Icebox over to the left, added a few new buttons, but in the demo when you start adding values and commenting it's a one-to-one from Pivotal. So much so, that I even looked at the company bio to see if someone from Pivotal Labs was involved. Great idea, but just because you believe in an open enterprise doesn't mean you should go around lifting everyone else's hard work to kickstart your own. EDIT: I sit corrected. The dashboard is a dead rip off of Pivotal. I just did a comparison of one of the dashboards linked above to the source of the tracker on one of my projects. Shared class names throughout, exact same structure. I expect this out of an MBA with no idea of the culture and ethos behind dev, but someone who's at least knowledgable enough about HN to post it here. Wow, that's a new low. At this point, saying you're going to send private emails of apology isn't enough, if you want to be truly open the only way I see to repair your reputation is a mea culpa on your blog. Really disappointed.
kabuks 16y ago
Yes. The pricing page design is taken directly from github. I have no valid excuse for that. I'm changing it as we speak and sending github an apology for stealing. It was intended as a placeholder and then I got lazy.
- timdorr 16y ago
  Great job following up on that...

by timdorr 16y ago

jpcx01 16y ago

Yeah, after watching the video, I was wondering if this was just a rebranding of Pivotal Tracker. If you're going to steal an interface... please don't steal from such an ugly and disfunctional web app. Having to use Pivotal Tracker for 3 months on a client project made me batshit crazy. It's one of the worst user interfaces I've ever suffered long term.

kabuks 16y ago
I respectfully disagree that we stole the dashboard design. We were definitely inspired by pivotal tracker bit we didn't steal anything.
- tswicegood 16y ago
  I haven't used the dashboard, so I'm basing this solely on the video, but... umm, yeah, you did pretty much rip off Pivotal Tracker. You moved the Icebox over to the left, added a few new buttons, but in the demo when you start adding values and commenting it's a one-to-one from Pivotal. So much so, that I even looked at the company bio to see if someone from Pivotal Labs was involved. Great idea, but just because you believe in an open enterprise doesn't mean you should go around lifting everyone else's hard work to kickstart your own. EDIT: I sit corrected. The dashboard is a dead rip off of Pivotal. I just did a comparison of one of the dashboards linked above to the source of the tracker on one of my projects. Shared class names throughout, exact same structure. I expect this out of an MBA with no idea of the culture and ethos behind dev, but someone who's at least knowledgable enough about HN to post it here. Wow, that's a new low. At this point, saying you're going to send private emails of apology isn't enough, if you want to be truly open the only way I see to repair your reputation is a mea culpa on your blog. Really disappointed.

kabuks 16y ago

Yes. The pricing page design is taken directly from github. I have no valid excuse for that. I'm changing it as we speak and sending github an apology for stealing. It was intended as a placeholder and then I got lazy.

timdorr 16y ago
Great job following up on that...