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Re:Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com by mgcreed on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @01:52PM (#758701)
Design is way too similar to the 37signals homepage...that was my initial impression. Will dig deeper into the site now.
Re:Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com by mattyb on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @02:16PM (#758778)
I feel like their homepage design gets copied pretty often. Perhaps they're on to something?
Re:Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com by alexsolo on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @04:11PM (#759119)
If you're curious, for our marketing site, we took inspiration from a couple of different sites, including 37signals, chartbeat.com, goodbarry.com, freshbooks.com and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head. I bet a lot of the aforementioned sites took some inspiration from 37signals as well :).

For the application site, we started with the open-source Web App Theme (http://github.com/pilu/web-app-theme/tree/master) and changed it to suit our needs.

Re:Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com by mgcreed on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @01:54PM (#758709)
actually, i take that back - it did immediately remind me of a previous homepage design of theirs...not the current one though
Re:Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com by fuzzmeister on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @02:54PM (#758911)
It looks very similar to the Basecamp and Campfire designs (ex: http://campfirenow.com/). However, both of those designs are fantastic, and I don't see too much of a problem with using them as design inspiration for a non-competitive company.
Re:Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com by tortilla on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @06:50PM (#759469)
It looks like peashootapp.com which looked like basecamphq.com...

http://peashootapp.com/

Re:Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com by apsurd on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @08:00PM (#759622)
wow, it does not look like peashoot. It is a near-exact clone of the site! I'll leave my personal opinion of the matter at the door..just saying!
Re:Rate my startup: PagerDuty.com by jmorin007 on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @02:11PM (#758764)
I thought the exact same thing actually.