Comment by tjarratt | Hacker News Reader

Comment by tjarratt | Hacker News Reader

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Really though, how many different ways are there to display ...

[PRODUCT NAME]

{tagline}

[email form]

...on a web page? Is it that it's centered with a large background image? How much is this ACTUALLY ripped directly from another site versus just design 101? Did you look at the HTML and see that they had copied a lot of the same styles/classes/IDs/element structure?

I'm not denying the similarity, but I also think that it's easy to jump to conclusions when accusing someone of stealing a design. No, I don't have anything to do with radishapp.com either.

disclaimer: I have been known to surf the web when I'm not feeling motivated to design a form, but I never copy a single design explicitly.

Their format is:

  Something {positive adjective} is coming to {proper noun}.
  Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

Hipster:

  Something cool is coming to New York.
  Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

RedishApp:

  Something hip is coming to Redis.
  Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

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I don't mind if they "stole" the design or not. It's a good thing to copy the thematic flow of successful sources.

However, you can't deny that with near identical wording, and design its more likely that they did copy (even if its from a 3rd party source we can't see like say a design manual) and didn't happen to both independently create the design.

Fixed, it's now "beta" list. If you haven't yet, check out Prefinery. They've been making this process pretty fluid. http://prefinery.com

I didn't say steal the code, I said steal the design. I didn't need to look at the actual source to make that distinction.

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