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Re:Ask HN: Please review my new startup. [Free account for H... by nkohari on Sunday October 11, 2009 @07:19PM (#875507)
Sure, our pricing page is inspired by Basecamp... and practically every other SaaS offering out there. As I said in another comment, everyone (including myself) takes inspiration from other designs, but there's a difference between taking inspiration and taking a stylesheet.
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Re:Ask HN: Please review my new startup. [Free account for H... by zaidf on Sunday October 11, 2009 @07:23PM (#875517)
taking a stylesheet

Can you elaborate? That is a pretty huge accusation.

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Re:Ask HN: Please review my new startup. [Free account for H... by nkohari on Sunday October 11, 2009 @07:37PM (#875538)
I'm not accusing the OP of anything. I was just pointing out that I took one look at the website and immediately recognized it as heavily inspired by Basecamp's design. That's all.

The colors and font of the header are identical, including the use of a single green link. The fonts used in the headers don't match the logo or the buttons, and have altered kerning just like on Basecamp's site.

I honestly couldn't give a shit either way. The OP asked for feedback, and I figured it was better he heard it from me than from 37signals' lawyers.

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Re:Ask HN: Please review my new startup. [Free account for H... by shpxnvz on Sunday October 11, 2009 @08:18PM (#875607)
The OP asked for feedback, and I figured it was better he heard it from me than from 37signals' lawyers.

It doesn't look like 37 signals has trademarked that particular color scheme or design, and I don't see any evidence that they own or have an exclusive license to the font in question; so there really seems to be no legal concern here at all.

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