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BTW Don't clone a successful product. Have some respect for yourself and for others. It rarely works anyway (struggling to think of a single case where it has).

k__ 6y ago
Yes, what are all those people copying Ferdinand Verbiest thinking...
nadermx 6y ago
vk.com?
- Akcium 6y ago
  I guess we should not clone a product, but its okay to clone the idea. I used vk.com a lot in the past and in terms of UI it was much more convenient for me than Facebook. Same ideas, different implementations.
  - hermitcrab 6y ago
    Coming up with a different way to solve the same problem or using ideas from other products is cool. Nothing is truly original. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, after all. I'm talking about people who just rip-off someone else's design with adding anything original.
wiremaus 6y ago
Nearly all the tech giants of today were not the the first in their niches; they just executed better.
- hermitcrab 6y ago
  So probably not cloning (making a nearly exact copy) of another product.
nlitened 6y ago
This reminds me of a funny story. I am using a service called Invoicely for recurring invoices in my small business. One day I randomly googled for some of its features and found a post of a guy who claimed (and I believe him) that Invoicely is a blatant screen-by-screen clone of their own SaaS. I felt really bad for that guy, and after some time I thought that it's a good idea to switch to them. The problem: their website name is so difficult to remember, I never got around to actually opening an account there. Some shifty guys literally copied an existing service up to their Javascript and CSS, and improved it dramatically just by giving it a name I can remember.
- joegibbs 6y ago
  Hiveage is the one you're talking about, there's a big post about everything they ripped off here: https://medium.com/@prabhaths/invoicely-a-hiveage-rip-off-b92fa411a2bb https://medium.com/@prabhaths/invoicely-a-hiveage-rip-off-b9...
- hajimemash 6y ago
  Haha the copy-pasting part is terrible, but the name invoicely is vastly superior to a name that sounds like an allergic reaction or bees.
HeyLaughingBoy 6y ago
> BTW Don't clone a successful product You mean, like gas stations?

k__ 6y ago

Yes, what are all those people copying Ferdinand Verbiest thinking...

nadermx 6y ago

vk.com?

Akcium 6y ago
I guess we should not clone a product, but its okay to clone the idea. I used vk.com a lot in the past and in terms of UI it was much more convenient for me than Facebook. Same ideas, different implementations.
- hermitcrab 6y ago
  Coming up with a different way to solve the same problem or using ideas from other products is cool. Nothing is truly original. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, after all. I'm talking about people who just rip-off someone else's design with adding anything original.

wiremaus 6y ago

Nearly all the tech giants of today were not the the first in their niches; they just executed better.

hermitcrab 6y ago
So probably not cloning (making a nearly exact copy) of another product.

nlitened 6y ago

This reminds me of a funny story. I am using a service called Invoicely for recurring invoices in my small business. One day I randomly googled for some of its features and found a post of a guy who claimed (and I believe him) that Invoicely is a blatant screen-by-screen clone of their own SaaS. I felt really bad for that guy, and after some time I thought that it's a good idea to switch to them. The problem: their website name is so difficult to remember, I never got around to actually opening an account there. Some shifty guys literally copied an existing service up to their Javascript and CSS, and improved it dramatically just by giving it a name I can remember.

joegibbs 6y ago
Hiveage is the one you're talking about, there's a big post about everything they ripped off here: https://medium.com/@prabhaths/invoicely-a-hiveage-rip-off-b92fa411a2bb https://medium.com/@prabhaths/invoicely-a-hiveage-rip-off-b9...
hajimemash 6y ago
Haha the copy-pasting part is terrible, but the name invoicely is vastly superior to a name that sounds like an allergic reaction or bees.

HeyLaughingBoy 6y ago

> BTW Don't clone a successful product You mean, like gas stations?