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by jeanmayer 1164 days ago
Thanks for the feedback, I can definitely see how this could be distasteful. Not attributing was 100% an accident and I fixed asap.

Like I mentioned in another comment: I'm part of a team that builds fast projects regularly and we have a default global footer that is applied to every site (see here for example: https://www.ghostlystock.com/ ) so unfortunately something we built to be tasteful was misinterpreted because it's obviously so over the top here.

What actually happened here is that I decided to share this project and the new footer wasn't at top of mind for me.

Sorry about that.

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It's not the footer that is the problem. It's not telling anybody that you're recycling other people's work.

I explicitly pointed out that the footer is fine. I generally like this type of ad the most -- do some great work, publish it, tell everybody who you are and that you are hiring or open for business opportunities. But this backfires if the thing you built is questionable.

I believe that this was an honest mistake. But unfortunately a quite telling one regarding team culture. Building things fast should not be an excuse for ripping other people off.