I am sorry for being so blunt, but makers of things like this are the very dregs of startup society.<p>Cloning an idea concept-for-concept screenshot-for-screenshot that was posted just a month ago and went viral just hoping to capitalize on a previous company's success is pathetic. It might be successful (i.e. given that this includes zero original effort, any amount of income could be termed "success"), but it is despicable and should not be encouraged or even condoned.<p>Taking an existing service and cloning it for a different userbase (e.g. making Twitter for China or Facebook for Jordan) are pretty lame and rank near-zero on the scales of creativity and respect. But something like this, that makes absolutely zero effort to differentiate itself in any way, shape, or form, hoping to only take leftovers from an existing (and original) service, and maybe someday overtake them via sheer brute force or persistence, are shameless and insulting.<p>But I think most of all, what irks me is that the OP has the gall to post this as "Show HN" which has traditionally been the "let me show you something COOL or INSPIRING that I did" - do you really think no one here will catch that this is an exact clone of Magic and there's absolutely zero substance to it? It's insulting.
I don't understand all this hate. Unlike US-only offerings, Whimsical is a service that's trying to open up to readers of Hacker News from other countries.<p>As some have already pointed out, it is not easy to go International.<p>On top of that, I'm sure by now you've realized that HackerNews has many international readers and they'd be very happy to see services that were previously only in the US with no plans of going international have some International competition.<p>I'm sorry that some of you are not entertained, but for the rest of us, HackerNews is a great place to Show and talk about what we're working on and get advice on how we could do it better!
Sorry to say this but I hate to see services that just pop up to clone something existing (and that barely even started) without adding any value.<p>"Oh that's a good idea, lemme just change the name real quick, whip out the same website with a stock nyc image and post a link on HN"
At first,I was like "oh, the magic team did some rebranding."<p>And then I realized this was actually a complete clone, right to the screenshot.
It's like an API aggregator for the real world. Wow. Like Magic. I think Quintessentially has something similar, tho Whimsical (and Magic) seem to have democratised concierge (possibly with rational pricing.) Cool.
So now I guess I need to build a service that compares prices for what you request between these two, and the next hundred knockoffs. I'll call it Witchcraft.