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Felix, I'm the founder of http://usefedora.com http://usefedora.com -- a product you are intimately familiar with. Love the effort and open source contributio

Felix, I'm the founder of http://usefedora.com http://usefedora.com -- a product you are intimately familiar with. Love the effort and open source contribution -- but definitely put off by stealing our UI/UX almost verbatim (example site built with our tool: http://bitfountain.io/courses/iwatch-course http://bitfountain.io/courses/iwatch-course <-- the same people as your case study, your tool: http://www.onedayrails.com/ http://www.onedayrails.com/) While it is incredibly flattering for a small startup like ours to have an open-source derivative, stealing our interface and design patterns for a project that you charge hundreds of dollars in installation fees definitely leaves a bad taste. Do it right and we'd have probably helped you promote it. But this just doesn't seem cool.

Felix21 11y ago
Hi Ankur, I very much didn't intend to offend you, copy you or cause you to be upset. That homepage design is based on what Udemy looked like before their update and that's why I felt okay to use it as a starting point. That said, I'll update the homepage for the course today with a new design as a gesture of good faith. I think the platform itself, not the homepage/sales page is what the people using coursify like. I suspect many of them won't even use that homepage. It's just a starting point. Again I'm trying to make friends not enemies. Hope I didn't offend you. Felix Happy Easter.
- ankurfedora 11y ago
  Thank you, appreciate the response and the new design. Keep me updated with future developments (ankur@usefedora.com) and maybe we can work together in the future.
  - Felix21 11y ago
    Hopefully we can. I'll let you know when the new design is up. I've already coded most of it.
chrisrxth 11y ago
I second Ankur's thoughts here. We've put a lot of time and energy into making our user experience simple and beautiful and while we take it as a compliment that you liked it enough to use our design, we would appreciate it if you came up with your own original design as to differentiate from us. We're not just a random online education platform that popped up out of the blue - we're real people working very hard to build a quality product.
imaginenore 11y ago
What exactly is he stealing? Big picture at the top followed by some text/testimonials? That's like every second modern landing page these days.
- rbonhardt 11y ago
  Looks like it goes deeper than that considering his onedayrails.com landing page is the same design, sequence and structure as the default Fedora landing page as well as the internal lessons experience and design
kyleknighted 11y ago
I didn't realize you owned the exclusive use of the large leaderboard images and rounded buttons design patterns. I'm sure there are loads of people out there profiting off of your patented design that you should probably be harassing as well. Good thing http://getbootstrap.com/ http://getbootstrap.com/ looks nothing at all like "your" design.
- allworknoplay 11y ago
  The obvious similarities are throughout the design, including the entirety of the course sales pages, the lecture view, specific iconography, etc.
  - corobo 11y ago
    Both sites just look like a customized bootstrap theme to me

Felix21 11y ago

Hi Ankur, I very much didn't intend to offend you, copy you or cause you to be upset. That homepage design is based on what Udemy looked like before their update and that's why I felt okay to use it as a starting point. That said, I'll update the homepage for the course today with a new design as a gesture of good faith. I think the platform itself, not the homepage/sales page is what the people using coursify like. I suspect many of them won't even use that homepage. It's just a starting point. Again I'm trying to make friends not enemies. Hope I didn't offend you. Felix Happy Easter.

ankurfedora 11y ago
Thank you, appreciate the response and the new design. Keep me updated with future developments (ankur@usefedora.com) and maybe we can work together in the future.
- Felix21 11y ago
  Hopefully we can. I'll let you know when the new design is up. I've already coded most of it.

chrisrxth 11y ago

I second Ankur's thoughts here. We've put a lot of time and energy into making our user experience simple and beautiful and while we take it as a compliment that you liked it enough to use our design, we would appreciate it if you came up with your own original design as to differentiate from us. We're not just a random online education platform that popped up out of the blue - we're real people working very hard to build a quality product.

imaginenore 11y ago

What exactly is he stealing? Big picture at the top followed by some text/testimonials? That's like every second modern landing page these days.

rbonhardt 11y ago
Looks like it goes deeper than that considering his onedayrails.com landing page is the same design, sequence and structure as the default Fedora landing page as well as the internal lessons experience and design

kyleknighted 11y ago

I didn't realize you owned the exclusive use of the large leaderboard images and rounded buttons design patterns. I'm sure there are loads of people out there profiting off of your patented design that you should probably be harassing as well. Good thing http://getbootstrap.com/ http://getbootstrap.com/ looks nothing at all like "your" design.

allworknoplay 11y ago
The obvious similarities are throughout the design, including the entirety of the course sales pages, the lecture view, specific iconography, etc.
- corobo 11y ago
  Both sites just look like a customized bootstrap theme to me