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Comment by frade33 | Hacker News Reader

you don't build a product around a product with 90% same name, it took me 5 min to figure your blog is not of ycombinator, at first seriously, i rejoiced as a designer, that 'finally' design is showing signs of improvments. but only to find, it was of a side-project built around ycombinators's news section. bad choice of name. project is cool.

I know it does not matter to ycombinator, because they are cool guys. but know the 'consumer confusion' thing?

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I had the opposite reaction: good name and idea, but the link takes me to a page with a big image, the link to the reader app is tiny, and the app itself is heavy with JS. I'd rather the design was rethought than the name...

probably being a 34 years old ceo sucks. :) that looks at things a lot differently. and have to deal with things which people call it 'shit happens'. I am only rejoicing when it does not. and it's very rare.

copyright act is entirely and solely built around 'consumer confusion'. anyway ;) there is apple bank https://www.applebank.com/ with apple in their logo too ;) but a slight resemblance in design language resulted in 1 billion fine to samsung. reason., former does not cause consumer confusion and the later did or tried to steal the thunder immorally.

and i did mention, project is cool. it's bookmarked in the same folder where i have hackernews ;)

but generally i tend not to like anything that tries to steal the thunder immorally... in this case, if the OP tries to monetize this app with the same domain name, it would be immoral and would delete it from my bookmarks.

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