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Builder.ai and the Air India website: What’s going on?
- supermatt 5y agoFeeling kinda sorry for builder.io having such a similar name - i immediately thought of them when i saw the name. The major downsides of a generic name i guess.
- rchaud 5y agoThey should have done the startuppy thing and misspelled it intentionally: "BVLDR" wouldn't have had this issue.
- ushakov 5y agooff topic, but they have a very suspect pricing page: https://www.builder.ai/studio-store https://www.builder.ai/studio-store "Delivery: 12 weeks" is Builder.ai just a CRUD app for indian sweatshops to build the apps?
- thunkshift1 5y agoIt would not have spawned an entire industry and no code websites every other week or so if it was ‘just a CRUD app’. Also, Curious as to what makes you think its a sweatshop? Did you come across any adverse reports of their offerings? If yes, please do share. If not, please stop slandering!
- saimiam 5y agoI saw the ads and it definitely was ambiguous whether builder.ai and AI were working together or not. Looks like Builder.ai is simply trying to cash in on the buzz around the Tata group taking over Air India. Otoh, AI threatening legal action gives too much weight to a dumbass ad campaign. They should have trotted out a spokesperson to poke fun at a unsolicited gift saying they’re returning it to sender.
- bgdam 5y agoTrademarks are use it, protect it, or lose it. AI not acting on blatant trademark infringement might see them losing their trademarks.
- ushakov 5y agohave you actually seen the ad? they're pretending there is partnership between them and Air India but there is none then they use Air India trademarks for their own advertisement then they start a contest on behalf of Air India imho, they definitely should be getting sued
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- achow 5y agoThe notice of the legal action [1]. AI seems to have a fair concern - risk of data theft. [1]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FL1w0J7aMAYsKfC?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FL1w0J7aMAYsKfC?format=jpg&name=...
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- megraf 5y agoIt doesn't matter if you're Indian. Painting with a brush that thick is absolutely disgusting. "Given the level of incredible and unrelenting misbehavior by Indians", unbelievable.
- barthelomew 5y ago+100. Dissing a billion people does not make you cool. It makes you ignorant.
- bombcar 5y agoThey should have used the magic word “systematic” and then all would have been accepted.
- beaconstudios 5y agoSystematic means "across the board, following an intentional plan" so it's also a broad brush statement. Presumably you meant systemic, which actually does have a specific meaning and wouldn't really apply here. It's a common misconception though.
- dominotw 5y agoI am indian we do have the "chalta hai" attitude towards life. Its a generality. GP made that point in a crass way though.
- gillesjacobs 5y agoUsing another company's brand deceptively is a textbook example of trademark infringement. Being cavalier about it won't do good in court either. RIP Builder.ai
- renewiltord 5y agoIt’s Indian court. “It won’t do good in court” in 2045.
- _fat_santa 5y agoI just don't understand why. Like I get it they are trying to get more eyeballs on them, but the ads sure made it seem like Builder.ai and Air India were doing some sort of collaboration (almost as if Air India was building a new site on top of Builder.ai). This is like the corporate version of girls on Instagram saying they are "sponsored by" when in reality they are not sponsored by anyone and are just trying to get clout.
- pm90 5y agoFake it till you make it gone bad.
- rg111 5y agoHow stupid is Builder.ai? To even think that Air India will contract an app to them when they are the parent company of TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) is extremely moronic. TCS has a global presence, and they get contracts from the largest everythings of India (including the India Post site, the State Bank of India's site, for example). They also handle the online exams for IIT entrances, bank promotion exams, and so on. I think you get the picture. And Tata owns them both. It's pretty much given that if Air India creates an app, it's TCS who will build it.
- treis 5y agoThey're creating a lot of attention for little money. Strikes me as a rather successful ad campaign.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoSuccessful in me noting to avoid anything having to do with builder.ai and engineer.ai in the future. Although the .ai domain was going to heavily lean me that way anyway.
- thunkshift1 5y agoIt will be successful if they survive the legal challenge and on good terms. Otherwise that company is toast.
- rchaud 5y agoThis kind of publicity is only valuable if the product you're selling is supposed to be subversive. Works great for controversial movies and music. Probably doesn't work as well for a SaaS app that could be sued out of existence.
- baybal2 5y agoAir India is world's worst airline, and TCS is probably world's worst IT outsourcer as well by a large margin.
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- faangiq 5y agoAre there any legit businesses using the .ai TLD?
- ffpip 5y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A.ai+pricing https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A.ai+pricing
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- anaganisk 5y agoTo be fair, their prototype looks 100x better than their existing app/website and would definitely look 200x better than any shit design TCS(owned by the same parent company as Air India which is Tata) would ever come up with.