CopyCats?
by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.
Well, well, well. There is this company called 43things.com that provides a neat web service. And suddenly there’s a german company called aimido that does the same thing. Josh Petersen of 43things blogged about it.
Who are David Kuczek and Berit Ernst? Why are they seemingly stealing the idea, the layout and the functionality of another companies business?
What happened to having your own ideas? Do their partners, Andreas Arntzen, Lars Langusch, Harald Schröpfer and Oliver Weyergraf know that their business is looking like it was lifted 1:1 from someone else? (who, by the way also have a german presence) Do they care? Or is it totally intentional?
Googling a bit, finds this press relase which, as you can see is titled “42 Dinge” (or for those that can’t read german: “42 things”. What a coincidence to the 43 things of – 43things.com
Interesting, interesting…. Lets’ see what these people with their “hohe Gründerkompetenz” are going to say, when more people see how innovative they really are.
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Thanks for tracking down the pointers to those people’s homepages. I’ve written to them but have not heard any reply. Maybe I’ll follow up with the directors.
43things is also availabe in German under http://de.43things.com. Unfortunatelly they list US Cities instead of German, Swiss and Austrian Cities.
A copy is never that good as the original.
Here is a new site I developed before I even new 43things.com. Its more for serious goals then for short term goals. Have a look at http://www.goalsetting1.com
That’s too easy
Some [lame Germans][1] obviously thought to make a big deal with copying the concept of [43things.com][2]. But they not just shamelessly copied the concept, they also copied the whole design, including fonts and colors, just replacing the logo and the …