Re:Chinese clone of StackOverflow. Uses even the same design...
by carbon8 on Sunday March 29, 2009 @05:23PM
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You clearly have missed everything since it's exactly the opposite. The internal software architecture is not the issue here, the cloned result presented to users/customers is.
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Re:Chinese clone of StackOverflow. Uses even the same design...
by jhancock on Sunday March 29, 2009 @05:47PM
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and StackOverflow was unabashedly a derivative of Digg or Reddit. The creators have said so themselves.
How closely to a pre-existing design or market space does a product need to be before it offends you? Do you have a methodology to measure this?
How much time have you spent trying to woo venture capital? In my experience, one of the first questions I get hit with is "is there anyone else doing something similar?" If the answer is no, this is a red flag.
A typical and expected elevator pitch is "its like X but for Y". Hybridization is the game here. It is common and quite acceptable to say "its like X but for China".
The creator of this new product did change something...something critical... "its like StackOverflow but for China".