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Interview with 19-year old founder of Indinero (Mint for business) [audio]

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25 pointsjayro20 comments

Uhhh. this is the first time i see anything about Indinero but it looks like they lifted our web design almost verbatim:

check out the original: http://www.shopify.com/tour/ and theirs: https://indinero.com/tour .

All other pages are similar in the same way.

Flattering for sure but come on.

Their messaging is very close to Mint.com as well:

https://indinero.com/tour/secure http://www.mint.com/features/security/

http://www.mint.com/features/ https://indinero.com/tour/setup

Perhaps this is another mistake

Not that I condone copying, but if you can't beat them, then join them (unless they have a copyright or patent).

Shameful. The cofounder has spoken at TED to boot. You'd think that type of person would know better.

Yep, we made a mistake. And we acknowledge it.

How could this have come about?

Was it that you guys didn't do the design at all and someone else lifted it in your name?

Or did you guys go ahead and think "we'll wait till we're called out, and in all likelihood we'd be famous enough then to afford a replacement"?

you know how it is, you start coding, with a photoshop template up, then by mistake you hit alt tab and go to another site, and you are so busy that you don't notice that you started copying another design.

that's what all nighters get you

Did you really make a mistake? This is really not that big of a deal. The graphics are original, the CSS is original, the copy... it's not even in the same industry. Yeah the general feel is similar but who cares.

Besides, the Shopify website doesn't have an exactly stunningly original design. I could accuse Shopify of ripping off Envato's old website (http://www.myinkblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/envato.p...) but that would just be pointless.

Most of us will jack a copy of Hannah Montana's latest album without a second thought then get our panties in a wad when someone vaguely emulates a design.

EDIT: never mind, missed your other comment below.

Homepage too;

    http://shopify.com/
    http://indinero.com/

I don't condone copying either but - in all honesty if you search the web I'm pretty sure you'll find at least 10 sites with similar layout.

The design on shopify is not exactly ground braking.

Unrelated but thanks for Delayed::Job, much appreciated. -fellows rails dev

While we're on that subject though, thanks for Liquid and ActiveMerchant. You guys have no idea how awesome you are. (Okay maybe you do) - another fellow rails dev.

wow, thank you so much guys.

no, thank you!

Hmm. This looks a lot like Xero.com, only less mature. Also the top google result for "indinero" is a secure (https) page, which results in Google warning me that this site "might not be what I was looking for". I'm not sure if it is Google or the Chrome browser generating the warning, but either way it's probably not good to be on that list.

There are a lot of similar players in the field: http://pulseapp.com/ and http://outright.com/ as well. At the end of the day, they can all claim to be mint for small businesses, but the winner will be one that actually captures that particular magic that mint had.

This marketplace seems to be highly competitive. I have to admit, out of those available, I went with Outright.com simply because it tells me (accurately, too!) what my quarterly taxes are.

Tracking finances is one thing. Making a startup easier to run is something else entirely :)

The moment Mint.com begins doing something similar, these guys may be in trouble. It's difficult to have a business revolve around a huge competitor's single missing feature.

Tobi, That's a mistake on our part, and we're going to fix it. On another note - the techZING guys were some of the funnest I've spoken to. :)

Between working on startup and preparing for finals, things have been pretty stressful over here.

I wouldn't let the negative comments here get to you; in threads like these people have a tendency to seize on one negative thing while ignoring everything else. Site looks good btw, I think you are onto something.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989120 : do as I say, not as I do, etc.

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