Chris Nagele
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

The first Beanstalk design rip-off

I noticed a couple incoming links in our account stats for a site called Pointyhack. Usually I check these out to see who reviewed Beanstalk and send out a thanks. Although, when I visited one site it might have looked like a review, but turned out to be a complete rip-off of our app design. I mean complete rip-off. You can check out the site or this screen shot.

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Pointyhack I see that he does mention the total rip-off of the application, but apparently our design is worth only $15 in comparison to the paid plan on our site. Of course, I have to admit that we are going in the right direction when people want to steal our designs. :)

Note to Pointyhack: I don’t mind getting ideas for your interface from Beanstalk. As many other web apps, Beanstalk has gathered many layout ideas by using 37 Signals products. But completely copying the entire page is ridiculous.

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Tim Harper on March 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

Wow, is all I have to say about the following statement:

“Copying is the sincerest form of flattery, right?”

Insert “with permission” after Copying and perhaps that statement will be true.

Leonya on March 4th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

Now, that means you’re famous :)

Chris on March 4th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

My appologies.It was just a fun app that I didn’t think anyone but me would ever view. I will take it down right away.

Wilhelm Murdoch on March 5th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

You know you’re going in the right direction when people starting ripping your stuff off. :)

Gilbert on March 6th, 2008 at 8:40 am

Beanstalk is one of the best looking web apps out there, if not THE best.

I really love it!

j4s0n on March 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 am

Isn’t it fun? lol. Maybe the starting lesson should be.. “don’t create awesome sites” if you don’t want to get ripped off. hehe. just joking on that. Beanstalk is awesome =)

The first Beanstalk design rip-off

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