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One of the most egregious website rips ever.

10 points by amark ↗ HN
Evan Luthra (@evanluthra), who seems to view himself as some sort of design/developer savant, completely ripped of www.thesearethings.com for his personal website www.evanluthra.com. Not only did he copy their beautiful, detailed design (clearly it took them a long time) pixel for pixel, he even copied their nifty little flip-book, which included pictures of THEIR faces. And hes try to promote and profit from his theft. Pretty low. Let the shaming commence

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runjake
Did they allegedly rip off your website? Did you originally design the website? If you answered "no" to the last two questions, this definitely does not belong as an HN submission.

If you said "yes" to any of the last two questions, it still doesn't really warrant an HN post.

Inform the affected website owners and be done with it. Quit trying to stir up drama. Flagged.

[dead] shivamkhullar
Are you fucked up? Websites arent copyright protected.

And As far as I can see his websites diffrent from thiers and he seems a pretty legit guy - he seems to have more clout than thesearethings.com - for god sakes he gave a TED Talk.

Either you are trying to get attention to thesearethings and get some sales or you were offended by evan and are trying to get back.

Not HN worthy.

Flagged.

[dead] shivamkhullar
I did some more investigation and it seems he did copy thier website. Dont know why would he do that - that guy has a lot of freakin clout, hes got an iphone and android app after himself! He even spoke for google india.?!?

Hes 17 - rookie mistake . As runjKe said - stop trying to create drama - surely a ploy to get sales for thesearethings.com .