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33 points by mwetzler 14y ago

mwetzler 14y ago
One of our customers just alerted us to this copycat website. We view it as a really nice compliment to our designer, Micah Wolfe! I love the comment someone left in their feedback "an original website". https://recomio.uservoice.com/forums/198081-general/suggestions/3784097-an-original-website https://recomio.uservoice.com/forums/198081-general/suggesti...
- arekp 14y ago
  Did you contact them before smearing them in public?
  - mehwoot 14y ago
    In what way is this a smear?
nabaraj 14y ago
Yes the design looks similar but it looks like just a UI copy. The styling, scripts are pretty much different. Fun fact: keen.ico (OP) : banner_icons_light.png 800 x 454 recom.io(Alleged copier) : banner_icons_light.png 3928 x 2228
- mwetzler 14y ago
  our designer made that icons banner, and the github button, and the gray arrow, and we wrote the text about "the old fashioned way". we also designed the tabs for the code samples :)
- emgee3 14y ago
  Definitely a copy -- they even ripped off the Typekit code — which won't load from a different domain. No need to call it alleged.
- epoxyhockey 14y ago
  keen.ico (OP) : banner_icons_light.png 800 x 454 recom.io(Alleged copier) : banner_icons_light.png 3928 x 2228 The image on keen.io has "_small" in the filename (not as you typed it). The large version of the image is also hosted on keen.io's AWS: https://keen_web_static.s3.amazonaws.com/img/banner_icons_light.png https://keen_web_static.s3.amazonaws.com/img/banner_icons_li...
  - jakejake 14y ago
    If the rip-off company is hot-linking images or CSS files then it gives keen.io an excellent opportunity to mess with them. Keen.io just has to copy the files to a new folder, update their HTML - then start having fun with the old images.
- thejosh 14y ago
  <script src="https://keen_web_static.s3.amazonaws.com/js/google-code-prettify/prettify.js?v=1063 https://keen_web_static.s3.amazonaws.com/js/google-code-pret... type="text/javascript"></script> Keen web static included on recom.io isn't copying?
- alex_doom 14y ago
  Lazy web developer and most likely a lazy ceo, who made them copy it.
dkador 14y ago
I like how they're linking directly to the keen S3 bucket that hosts google prettify's CSS.
mwetzler 14y ago
hmm... seems recom.io took down their site now
- dpe82 14y ago
  Still there for me.
gdi2290 14y ago
comment.insert(-1, "great minds think alike")
jayfuerstenberg 14y ago
At least change the background colors.
DanBC 14y ago
There used to be a great website for this kind of thing (http://pirated-sites.com/ http://pirated-sites.com/), but it's unfortunately dead. Maybe that's a nice project for someone else?
TeMPOraL 14y ago
Reminds me of kids in secondary school who copy their homework directly from Wikipedia and then forget (or don't know how) to remove formatting and hyperlinks, bringing to their teachers printouts full of blue, underlined text. If copy-pasting without leaving such obvious traces of it is such a difficult thing for people, then our civilization is doomed.
adnam 14y ago
I'd definitely fork that
dangrossman 14y ago
They're hosted on EC2 (or some platform running on EC2). I wonder with what granularity Amazon responds to DMCA notices? Do they terminate the instance, delete the AMI, suspend the account?
dreen 14y ago
meh, its just a bunch a rules in css and some simple images. its more a question of fashion rather than intellectual property.
archivator 14y ago
It looks completely different now: http://ctrlq.org/files/screenshots/b76a925667955563e430ac0d7ab14e99.png http://ctrlq.org/files/screenshots/b76a925667955563e430ac0d7...

33 points by mwetzler 14y ago

One of our customers just alerted us to this copycat website. We view it as a really nice compliment to our designer, Micah Wolfe! I love the comment someone left in their feedback "an original website". https://recomio.uservoice.com/forums/198081-general/suggestions/3784097-an-original-website https://recomio.uservoice.com/forums/198081-general/suggesti...

arekp 14y ago
Did you contact them before smearing them in public?
- mehwoot 14y ago
  In what way is this a smear?

nabaraj 14y ago

Yes the design looks similar but it looks like just a UI copy. The styling, scripts are pretty much different. Fun fact: keen.ico (OP) : banner_icons_light.png 800 x 454 recom.io(Alleged copier) : banner_icons_light.png 3928 x 2228

mwetzler 14y ago
our designer made that icons banner, and the github button, and the gray arrow, and we wrote the text about "the old fashioned way". we also designed the tabs for the code samples :)
emgee3 14y ago
Definitely a copy -- they even ripped off the Typekit code — which won't load from a different domain. No need to call it alleged.
epoxyhockey 14y ago
keen.ico (OP) : banner_icons_light.png 800 x 454 recom.io(Alleged copier) : banner_icons_light.png 3928 x 2228 The image on keen.io has "_small" in the filename (not as you typed it). The large version of the image is also hosted on keen.io's AWS: https://keen_web_static.s3.amazonaws.com/img/banner_icons_light.png https://keen_web_static.s3.amazonaws.com/img/banner_icons_li...
- jakejake 14y ago
  If the rip-off company is hot-linking images or CSS files then it gives keen.io an excellent opportunity to mess with them. Keen.io just has to copy the files to a new folder, update their HTML - then start having fun with the old images.
thejosh 14y ago
<script src="https://keen_web_static.s3.amazonaws.com/js/google-code-prettify/prettify.js?v=1063 https://keen_web_static.s3.amazonaws.com/js/google-code-pret... type="text/javascript"></script> Keen web static included on recom.io isn't copying?
alex_doom 14y ago
Lazy web developer and most likely a lazy ceo, who made them copy it.

dkador 14y ago

I like how they're linking directly to the keen S3 bucket that hosts google prettify's CSS.

mwetzler 14y ago

hmm... seems recom.io took down their site now

dpe82 14y ago
Still there for me.

gdi2290 14y ago

comment.insert(-1, "great minds think alike")

jayfuerstenberg 14y ago

At least change the background colors.

DanBC 14y ago

There used to be a great website for this kind of thing (http://pirated-sites.com/ http://pirated-sites.com/), but it's unfortunately dead. Maybe that's a nice project for someone else?

TeMPOraL 14y ago

Reminds me of kids in secondary school who copy their homework directly from Wikipedia and then forget (or don't know how) to remove formatting and hyperlinks, bringing to their teachers printouts full of blue, underlined text. If copy-pasting without leaving such obvious traces of it is such a difficult thing for people, then our civilization is doomed.

adnam 14y ago

I'd definitely fork that

dangrossman 14y ago

They're hosted on EC2 (or some platform running on EC2). I wonder with what granularity Amazon responds to DMCA notices? Do they terminate the instance, delete the AMI, suspend the account?

dreen 14y ago

meh, its just a bunch a rules in css and some simple images. its more a question of fashion rather than intellectual property.

archivator 14y ago

It looks completely different now: http://ctrlq.org/files/screenshots/b76a925667955563e430ac0d7ab14e99.png http://ctrlq.org/files/screenshots/b76a925667955563e430ac0d7...