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This looks heavily based upon a commercial admin template by Carlos Alvarez for sale at wrapbootstrap which I found months ago... Interesting! Who was first?!

http://www.alvarez.is/demo/dashio/dashboard/

http://alvarez.is/demo/dashio/index.html

https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/dashio-dashboard-frontend-WB...

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This is from the same author http://www.blacktie.co/2014/07/dashgum-free-dashboard/

Carlos Alvarez

Carlos is a self-taught designer & developer working as a freelancer since 2006. He loves creating eye-catching sites and cool user experiences. Since 2011 he develop sites using the awesome Twitter Bootstrap framework. More Here: Alvarez.is

If you look at the admin themes on wrapbootstrap.com and themeforest.net, they're all extremely similar. Same menu items, same chart plugins, same elements on dashboard, often times even using the same clip art and sample photos. They usually just tweak one another, just manipulating the CSS a bit. I think that's the downside to basing a commercial product off of common design elements, Bootstrap, and open source JavaScript plugins.

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