In some cases, yes I agree. But a chatroom is a pretty proven design. Scrolling output, user list on the right, input bar at the bottom.... and that's pretty much it.
I doubt even 37signals would claim they designed that.
It's like IE complainging that firefox also has an address bar at the top, and back/forward/reload buttons.
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Being the founder of OpenDNS makes him a smart guy? Most of the 37Signals products were harder to build and more useful than OpenDNS.
So hard to build that google replicated one in a week? :/
It often takes much longer to design something simple than it does to implement it.
In some cases, yes I agree. But a chatroom is a pretty proven design. Scrolling output, user list on the right, input bar at the bottom.... and that's pretty much it. I doubt even 37signals would claim they designed that.
It's like IE complainging that firefox also has an address bar at the top, and back/forward/reload buttons.
If that was the case, why weren't there 100 other applications that looked just like Campfire prior to its release?
Yes, it does.