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CounselDrive stole Stripe's Website (counseldrive.com)
almost 6 years ago from No Name, Non
39 comments
Peter Müller, almost 6 years ago
This is amazing. The elements are exactly the same.
Mike Wilson, almost 6 years ago If I had to guess this was thrown together by some shady web design firm trying to target American small biz law firm clients with flashy Silicon Valley-esque marketing.
Actually quite a clever strategy if they would have taken the time to change the website instead of stealing it!
Matt Helbig, almost 6 years ago
web designer: what kind of site do you want?
counseldrive: just give me that stripe dot com
web designer: say no more
Aaron Sagray, almost 6 years ago
A service for… law firm marketing. Not ironic.
Dirk HCM van Boxtel, almost 6 years ago
Wonder if they offer Stripe to pay for their products :')
Jonathan Simcoe, almost 6 years ago
lol... even their open graph image is Stripe's...
Josiah Tullis, almost 6 years ago
I think they just used wget to download the entire webpage and then edit the source.
No Name, almost 6 years ago
This was brought to my attention by Zac Nielson on Twitter.
CounselDrive has literally stolen the Stripe website. It's not even a subtle rip because they left some Stripe favicons in the head element!
Update
I've been doing some more research and there doesn't appear to be much of anything about this company. Their WHOis comes up private and there's no record of them on CrunchBase, AngelList or any media publications.
If I had to guess, these guys ripped the design to try and have something flashy for initial customer acquisition so that they could raise capital. That said, rip-offs like this don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Hopefully they take it down.
chris casey, almost 6 years ago
They're not the only ones: https://bstow.com/
Jeffrey de Groot, almost 6 years ago
Their Twitter account is even more crazy, almost seems like a prank https://twitter.com/counseldrive
James Lane, almost 6 years ago
It's so confusing! Gotta admit, it seems like something is going on, maybe a disgruntled employee???
Even more so when you see that their twitter location is "India probably"
Must be fake?!
I don't think this is the actual twitter of the CounselDrive company. The most recent tweet was 18hrs ago and when I shared this, I couldn't find them on any social media. If I had a guess, someone saw their website, the available twitter, and has started mocking them.
Brennan Smith, almost 6 years ago Hope they have a good lawyer, wait...
Max Quinn, almost 6 years ago Their Twitter seems like a massive spoof. I'm going for satirical commentary on the amount of clients asking for 'make it look like Stripe' and the amount of designers taking 'inspiration' from them.
Josh King, almost 6 years ago
Definitely looks like a fake business from their twitter. Their location and the fact that every single tweet is them mocking stripe. Even from the beginning.
Max Quinn, almost 6 years ago Exactly. But what if we've got it all wrong and Stripe stole CounselDrive's website?
Joshua Turner, almost 6 years ago
Every link on the page goes to the same contact form.
This is just sad, reminds me of that "agency" that ripped metalab.co late last year.
Here's a full height screen capture of the site in case they decide to remove it.
fsdgerh wrheher, almost 6 years ago
Happen to have a link for the metalab ripoff? I sadly missed that!
Wouter Hillen, almost 6 years ago
Look who wrote that post!
Lol, I'm guessing the guy that submitted that saw all this happening and changed his name when he saw I linked to that.
I know it wasn't that originally.
Marc Olivier Lapierre, almost 6 years ago
Wow. Disgusting.
Andrew Possehl, almost 6 years ago Lol, pretty sure these guys are trolling. Read through their Twitter reply stream https://twitter.com/counseldrive/with_replies
By the looks of it, the twitter is owned by someone from here that's making a joke out of the actual CounselDrive guys. I'd assume this since—apparently—I'm one of the 4 people the account is following.
:P
Jonathan Engstrom, almost 6 years ago
Pretty sure this is some massive spoof.
The twitter account follows 2 people (Trump and Stripe) and all 40 tweets are retweets of Stripe directly or people telling them they've ripped it off - they've just replaced all mentions of @Stripe with @CounselDrive and visa versa.
Jan Semler, almost 6 years ago
Doesn't look like anything to me ...
Sarah Dressler, almost 6 years ago Look again, Bernard...
Kemie Guaida, almost 6 years ago
No they didn't! It's totally a different color!
/s
Ale Urrutia, almost 6 years ago
I don't want to play devil's advocate here but maybe wasn't "CounselDrive" the one ripping off the design, maybe was the designer/team who did it.
Last year, two Chinese startups "got inspired" by my design for dji.com. One of the designers from the startup wrote me to tell me he was a big fan and got "inspired on my work" to design the ripped off website.
zafer o., almost 6 years ago it happens.
Joe Roberto, almost 6 years ago WOW. What a f'ing joke.
tony w, almost 6 years ago
Hey errrrbody, it's me here, designer of CounselDrive. AMA, happy to answer!
Damián Hernández, almost 6 years ago
Shame, shame, shame!
Jenia Stratila, almost 6 years ago
Maybe this is a marketing trick... bad promotion is still a promotion
Daniel Wiklund, almost 6 years ago
What was it Picasso said "Good artists copy, great artists steal" ;)
Jordan Gardiner, almost 6 years ago
Just noticed they left in a meta tag linking to a French version of the site with Stripe branding and text in-place. Most of the links go back to Stripe, but the pricing page has unique content not linked anywhere else on the site. Still laughing at the 'Sophisticated web design' section.
Rodriguez Salt, almost 6 years ago Seems they tried to copy website but it didn't happen much so they just stole it. Nice
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