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by PostOnce 3484 days ago
I looked at grammable.me to see what it is.

Looks like instapainting.com arbitrage, I wonder how long that will be viable.

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I thought about it too. I checked the WHOIS record :

Domain Name: GRAMMABLE.ME

Registry Domain ID: D425500000001103903-AGRS

Registrar WHOIS Server:

Registrar URL: www.namecheap.com

Updated Date: 2016-11-25T10:04:27Z

Creation Date: 2016-11-25T10:04:19Z

grammable.me was registered a few weeks after the [indiehacker article on instapainting](https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/instapainting) buzzed on HN about a month ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798767 .

Don't know what to think about it, looks like a bit unfair to me to copy cat someone who decided to share so much of his experience.

I would love to know what Chris Chen (instapainting founder) and Courtland Allen (indie hacker founder) think about it. Personally I really enjoy reading indie hacker stories, I find it very inspiring. It would be a shame people stop sharing their success because some guys copy cat them...

Also looks like a similar attempt to SEO and get customers by posting unrelated techie stuff under the same domain -- cf. instapainting discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798767.
I can't even load it, it freezes my laptop and forces me to reboot or wait for 2 minutes before Chrome prompts me to kill the tab. (Intel Celeron N3160 + 4GB RAM)