Interview with 19-year old founder of Indinero (Mint for business) [audio]

by jayro • 17 years ago

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xal2• 17 years ago

Uhhh. this is the first time i see anything about Indinero but it looks like they lifted our web design almost verbatim:

check out the original: http://www.shopify.com/tour/ and theirs: https://indinero.com/tour .

All other pages are similar in the same way.

Flattering for sure but come on.

tsally• 17 years ago

Shameful. The cofounder has spoken at TED to boot. You'd think that type of person would know better.

jlm3822• 17 years ago

Yep, we made a mistake. And we acknowledge it.

colbyolson• 17 years ago

Homepage too;

    http://shopify.com/
    http://indinero.com/

sirrocco• 17 years ago

I don't condone copying either but - in all honesty if you search the web I'm pretty sure you'll find at least 10 sites with similar layout.

The design on shopify is not exactly ground braking.

atishm• 17 years ago

Their messaging is very close to Mint.com as well:

https://indinero.com/tour/secure http://www.mint.com/features/security/

http://www.mint.com/features/ https://indinero.com/tour/setup

Perhaps this is another mistake

codexon• 17 years ago

Not that I condone copying, but if you can't beat them, then join them (unless they have a copyright or patent).

PStamatiou• 17 years ago

Unrelated but thanks for Delayed::Job, much appreciated. -fellows rails dev

lunaru2• 17 years ago

While we're on that subject though, thanks for Liquid and ActiveMerchant. You guys have no idea how awesome you are. (Okay maybe you do) - another fellow rails dev.

jlm3822• 17 years ago

Tobi, That's a mistake on our part, and we're going to fix it. On another note - the techZING guys were some of the funnest I've spoken to. :)

Between working on startup and preparing for finals, things have been pretty stressful over here.

rms• 17 years ago

I wouldn't let the negative comments here get to you; in threads like these people have a tendency to seize on one negative thing while ignoring everything else. Site looks good btw, I think you are onto something.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989120 : do as I say, not as I do, etc.

evandavid• 17 years ago

Hmm. This looks a lot like Xero.com, only less mature. Also the top google result for "indinero" is a secure (https) page, which results in Google warning me that this site "might not be what I was looking for". I'm not sure if it is Google or the Chrome browser generating the warning, but either way it's probably not good to be on that list.

lunaru2• 17 years ago

There are a lot of similar players in the field: http://pulseapp.com/ and http://outright.com/ as well. At the end of the day, they can all claim to be mint for small businesses, but the winner will be one that actually captures that particular magic that mint had.

ericclemmons• 17 years ago

This marketplace seems to be highly competitive. I have to admit, out of those available, I went with Outright.com simply because it tells me (accurately, too!) what my quarterly taxes are.

Tracking finances is one thing. Making a startup easier to run is something else entirely :)

The moment Mint.com begins doing something similar, these guys may be in trouble. It's difficult to have a business revolve around a huge competitor's single missing feature.

Interview with 19-year old founder of Indinero (Mint for business) [audio]

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