Being mocked is a badge of honor. It means you have the hustle to ship and get things out in front of people. You should worry a little bit if you're not being mocked. Maybe you're that good, but, really, for the most part, the people who mock new businesses the most tend to be too dumb to tell the difference. So, not being mocked probably means you're wasting time being too vain to ship.
Forget the web design stuff. Use Themeforest, or the Boostrap defaults, and spend your time getting your product to do things people will pay money for.
Re:Ask HN: Is it "bad" to use Themeforest?
by leprofessorr on Friday August 31, 2012 @11:25PM
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Thanks! I'm learning to see quite a few things in different ways today. :)
I'm using an Admin template for a web app and its pretty unique.
I just don't want to be "mocked" because I didn't take the time and money to make a more unique interface. Like North Korea was mocked because the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea's site (http://korea-dpr.com) cost $15 because they bought a template of Themeforest.
I know it shouldn't be a really big problem, but I'm second guessing every decision I've made because I'm really nervous about this one. (I've switched between PHP and Python and Linode and Heroku about 15 times now).