I just got meta-copied
I sometimes get requests from start-up friends in the US asking whether there are Chinese clones of their companies. So I thought it would be neat to make a really simple website that kept track of who’s copying who. Each company would have a page showing other companies copying or being copied by it.
I found myself with some free time this weekend, so 2 SQL tables and 2.5 hours later, I got this uploaded to a production server:
At this point I had to get back to my real project, so I shelved it and figured I would come back next weekend to add stuff like graphs, english translations, and a real domain name….
Then today I came across a site that had just launched called “copy factory”, denoting themselves as a cruchbase that emphasized relationships between companies. I took a look and it seems like whoever made it seem to have spent a decent amount of time on it, since they had a user registration system, pictures, and everything:
Just as I was about to concede on them having done it first, I noticed this:
Dude they totally ripped off my favicon!
My site on copying just got copied. Oh well, just another day in China.
