Really? I'm the opposite. I will admit right now that I copy/borrow/steal design and concept ideas from other websites relentlessly. I find, however, that I t

Really? I'm the opposite. I will admit right now that I copy/borrow/steal design and concept ideas from other websites relentlessly. I find, however, that I tend to do it for stuff around the periphery of an application. For example, how should my forgot password process work? What should my copyright notice look like? How should I format a success or error notification message? What should my button widgets look like? Such things that are not central to the purpose of an application I am working I expend as little thought as possible on, and tend to copy whatever I see someone successful doing (hey, i think, if it didn't stand in their way, it probably won't stand in mine). I spend more of my "picking apart" brainpower on the original/unique stuff my app is doing. Admittedly, I do a fair amount of copying of the kind you are referring to as well, but I don't entirely agree that that's the "only" kind of copying that's beneficial.