JRF
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JRF
@digitalages
forward deployed lawyer | @nyulaw 2013 | running case intelligence @docketrunner

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imagine getting acquired by @OpenAI, get unlimited AI tokens and still drop this slop abomination

As you can see in the comparison below, the code is ours and different from Papermark's. We used several existing softwares as style references when building it (PaperMark is pretty much a copy of DocSend if you put them side by side). Originally, we built Dataroom internally because we didn't want to keep paying $$ for simple features. Figured other startups felt the same way, so we decided to offer it to people around us instead of everyone giving Dropbox a ton of money for basic stuff. Looking back, we should've leaned more into our own language and visual choices instead of taking cues from existing products in the space and that's on us. Regarding Marc's note, I get that this stings since we're putting out something mostly free that competes with his SaaS. I'd be mad too. But "stole my enterprise-code" is a different claim than "copied my style," and what he's saying just isn't true. Calling it theft when the code itself doesn't back that up isn't a good read of what happened. Sorry for the stress this caused regardless. This wasn't our intent, and we'll stay focused on building products that are genuinely useful.



Hey Nico, It looks like you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark's open source and enterprise-licensed code. We demand you take this copyright and license infringing product down immediately. It's not moving fast and breaking things, it's fraud. It makes the rest of your business questionable and the YC community look terrible. cc: @garrytan @snowmaker @ycombinator


















