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by bieberChen 830 days ago
I'm truly sorry if our actions have caused any offense. Our team consists of 5 freelance programmers without any designers on board, and without any funding, so we had to tackle the design aspect ourselves. Initially, we planned to use a colorful gradient theme, but found the UI coordination too challenging for us. It was then that we came across the beautiful simplicity of shadcn, and decided to go with a black and white theme.

We did look at various black and white themed websites on the market, including Notion and Attio, but I assure you, we did not plagiarize any images. Thank you for your critique. We will make it our priority to adjust our design to be more unique as swiftly as possible.
2 comments
sigmarule 830 days ago
Don't apologize for using a theme for your landing page. And don't apologize to a competitor who is throwing shade and linking to their competing product.
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byteofbits 830 days ago
I think it's a bit strange to reply directly that you did not plagiarise any images when the opening table cell background is a direct lift of the SVG from our site...
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haswell 829 days ago
As a neutral observer, it’s hard to make sense of what exactly you’re saying was copied.

What is the opening table cell background? Is this something in the app code itself, or something that made it onto the public site? And this SVG was custom made by your company?

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byteofbits 829 days ago
The creator chose to remove the image in question following my post.

You can see the image behind the central video on the wayback machine archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240311143537/https://teable.io...

The asset was created in-house by our design team custom for our website (not outsourced or a template) and was copied identically. The asset itself is a small thing, but the denial of something which is materially provable seemed very odd to me, hence my reply!

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haswell 829 days ago
Thanks for sharing the details. They got to the image before I got to this thread, so this is super helpful.

And that’s pretty appalling. As a product manager who had to be aware of what our competitors were doing, I can’t even begin to understand how someone thought directly lifting assets was a good idea.

For legal reasons at minimum, but for ethical reasons as well.

We always made a point of not letting our design people even see competitor’s stuff for exactly this reason.

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