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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by jbob2000 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:19PM (#8998527)
You didn't come up with the idea of a heatmap. Their designs are different enough that I wouldn't consider it stealing. You're in the same space it looks like, of course there is going to be crossover.
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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by asanwal on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:26PM (#8998589)
The CEO of this company admits they used our design as "reference" to get something out the door quickly.

Here's his tweets that admit this: http://cbi.vc/1u9KQu9

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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by jbob2000 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:33PM (#8998655)
And you just pulled your design out of thin air? You woke up one day magically having this design idea without any prior influence? Please, you had your own references as well.

At my company, we routinely look at what our competitors are doing and we routinely look at ways of integrating their ideas into our product. It's not stealing, it's just business.

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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by asanwal on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:39PM (#8998708)
The CEO copied us. And admitted it. You seem to think that copying blatantly is fine. We'll agree to disagree.
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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by xtracto on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @08:52AM (#9032806)
If the only differentiator and "secret sauce" in your product is a bunch of CSS and some D3 layouts, you've got a problem.

Stop whining and start creating some real backend system and process so that you can offer real value to your customers. I bet you would love to get patents on those charts and color combinations uh?

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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by jbob2000 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:49PM (#8998776)
You're creating a straw man. I don't disagree that he's copied you. I disagree that it's stealing. I don't think what he did is wrong.
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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by th0br0 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:22PM (#8998555)
Have a look at the non-heatmap pages. They seem to be a copy of each other down to the order of the various parameters; even the labels tend to be identical or slightly rephrased...
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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by jbob2000 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:30PM (#8998632)
It's still different. This is a common layout for charted data. Likewise, Ford can't sue Mercedes for coming out with a 4 wheeled car; that's what makes the most sense.

There's different fonts, different colors, different spacing, some less important elements are in different places. Forget it, this is just a tweet to stir up discussion and generate some page hits.

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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:24PM (#8998569)
What's actionable about this issue? The original design was good; they riffed on that. Like everybody else.
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