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19 pointsqrush13 comments

Hi, I'm somebody you don't know from Adam. I don't say anything interesting about this idea I have, but here's a picture of vegetables, and I just name dropped the techno-toy du jour. Please enter your email in this box [____] which I will of course only use responsibly.

Hey there, I've been working on Radish for a while now. While using Redis, I had no idea how to visualize what was going on inside of it, and this app is the culmination of those ideas. If you're interested in trying it out, sign up!

Obviously we need to work on copy a bit, it's never been my strong suit. :)

Well just a little information about what Radish is would have been useful.

Also, looks like they ripped the design directly from http://newyork.usehipster.com/

Really though, how many different ways are there to display ...

[PRODUCT NAME]

{tagline}

[email form]

...on a web page? Is it that it's centered with a large background image? How much is this ACTUALLY ripped directly from another site versus just design 101? Did you look at the HTML and see that they had copied a lot of the same styles/classes/IDs/element structure?

I'm not denying the similarity, but I also think that it's easy to jump to conclusions when accusing someone of stealing a design. No, I don't have anything to do with radishapp.com either.

disclaimer: I have been known to surf the web when I'm not feeling motivated to design a form, but I never copy a single design explicitly.

Their format is:

  Something {positive adjective} is coming to {proper noun}.
  Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

Hipster:

  Something cool is coming to New York.
  Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

RedishApp:

  Something hip is coming to Redis.
  Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list.

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I don't mind if they "stole" the design or not. It's a good thing to copy the thematic flow of successful sources.

However, you can't deny that with near identical wording, and design its more likely that they did copy (even if its from a 3rd party source we can't see like say a design manual) and didn't happen to both independently create the design.

Fixed, it's now "beta" list. If you haven't yet, check out Prefinery. They've been making this process pretty fluid. http://prefinery.com

I didn't say steal the code, I said steal the design. I didn't need to look at the actual source to make that distinction.

I've been working with qrush on this app.

We thought this teaser page would be understood as clear parody of the Hipster site (Or as another commenter phrased it, "in-crowd sarcasm".) Based on the comments here, it seems like we could have done a better job communicating that. This was a few hours worth of work to get the word out about what we're building. The actual app is where we'll hopefully convince you of it's worth.

Wow, that is pretty brutal. I hope it was done as in-crowd sarcasm.

The title of this post sounds interesting, but I don't want my production data touched by, or hosted on, something hip. Reliable, sure. Hip, no.

As I say in my comment above, this splash page was meant as a humorous parody, thus the use of the word "hip." We're like everyone else in this thread: we want stuff that works well. And that's what we're working hard to build.

The word hip has finally jumped the shark...

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