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It is commonly believed that reproducing someone's work is a good way to learn. Artists develop their skills by copying masterpieces of the past masters. And on the internet tend to do the same with the popular websites. It is hard to predict whether your clone site will be successful or not. Anyway it is worth trying to do this with an expert programmer. By observing success of the giants such as Facebook, Twitter or eBay some entrepreneurs start to consider making their own version of the popular concept. By copying all the functions and sometimes even the design, a new clone comes to life. Does it have any market value? I bet very little, because who needs a second Twitter or Ebay? Such sites have a large client base, even your friends and relatives may have an account with them. How do you think you can convince to switch to your clone? When Twitter appeared for the first time, nobody knew about the microblogging and nobody needed it. And now, after the years of marketing efforts we all can't imagine our lives without it. So when you create a clone of the website your customers may already know what it does, so the only thing you'll need to explain is why your service is better than the original. On the other hand, promoting something unusual increases chances that the idea will stuck into someone's mind. Some learning curve is what make loyal customers. If they did some work to start using a service they are more likely to get and addiction to it. And it will not happen for a clone site. Our blog is not a place to give you a legal advice, just keep in mind that reproducing someone's original ideas may get you into trouble. Large companies may not even notice your existence until you start to be a competitor on their market. So it may be a good idea to check some existing patents and trademarks before even planning the development. Please do not treat it as a complaint, but most of the developers try to avoid the cloning projects. Very few customers have a clean purpose other than 'I want a site like this. How much it will cost?' First of all, a project like this should begin with creating of a detailed project description and in case of a large website it take lot of time just to produce an estimate and, even if you do it properly, chances are little that your potential customer will commit to it. Cloning idea is not an original idea that belongs to them, so it will be easy to drop it if price is not good, but for a developer, who has spent his time on documenting features and producing an estimate it will be a great frustration if nothing happens. Anyway, let's focus on some positive things that cloning a website may bring. To start with, we believe that it works very well for the niche sites. It means having the same concept but created to serve the needs of a specific community or a local market. This idea may work until the original
site comes to this specific market. Creating additional service on the foundation of the original website may work for you as well. Popular websites even try to direct you on this way, that's the reason why they create API for those who want to extend their service by creating applications. If you want to make something similar you don't even need to clone, just get yourself a Facebook or an eBay developer who can program PHP integration using provided interface. Cloning may be a useful and a positive experience if you use it to learn how to build a project of this scope. By learning you create a know-how which may help you when it's time to implement your own unique ideas. So even if your first projects fail, you can re-use some of the code in a new project and a team that you use can be even more important thing to have for a new startup. Someone may have already done the job for you and released a copy of the site as an opensource application and you can just download it and play. This is certainly a huge time-saver. But such and ease may play against you as the market maybe saturated with the hundreds of similar sites created on the same platform. To sum up, when deciding to create 'clone' it is recommended that you consider all pros and cons. And if are be able to use this experience for your own new project there is nothing bad in doing so. All you need to do is develop a detailed documentation and hire a team of professional programmers who are willing to help you.
Alex Zdorovetsky is a CTO at I Need a Website LLC, a Web Software development company established in 2002. We are constantly looking for new clients for our areas of expertise: ecommerce, CMS, web development, flash/actionscript and custom programming as well as new partners to deliver our services to your local markets. Please visit us at ineed.ws.
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