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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:01:29 -0400</pubDate>
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Do you want a <a href="http://Skillshare.com">Skillshare</a> clone for Christmas? Have one built today! There are 20 bids over at the free programming classifieds site <a href="http://www.scriptlance.com/projects/1322480076.shtml?ref=sosexpert">scriptlance.com</a>, where an entrepreneur has requested a double of the popular democratized teaching platform. "I need a developer who can clone <a rel="nofollow" href="http://skillshare.com/" target="_blank">skillshare.com</a> for me as it is with the functionality. Looking for a good price and skills who can communicate on day to day basis. I am open to use any php frameworks or CMS," says the Nov. 28 post.</p>
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<p>Unlike past ads we've seen for clones, programmers seem to be chomping at the bit to build a bizarro Skillshare. "***I Am Abel To do it SIR*** AND HIGHLY INTERESTED," says one bidder who offered to do it in $25 days for $1,300. "We are very much interested in the project," said another who offered to do it in 35 days, but for $2,000. The bids range from $5,o00 in 100 days to $450 in 25 days. One user proposed building the site in three days for $480. Seems like a good place to find Skillshare's next engineer!</p>
<p>Another ad, <a href="http://w3digg.com/2011/11/freelancing-jobs/content-writer/156261.html">posted on Odesk</a> on the same day but with slightly different wording, requests a "Skillshare copy" and says it's originating in Singapore. Singapore Skillshare! We can't wait to see the $500 version of a fast-growing New York startup that has raised more than $3 million from Founder Collective, SV Angel, Collaborative Fund and others, and just rolled out a <a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/30/skillshare-redesign-focus-on-skill/">majorly spiffed up overhaul</a>.</p>
<p>"It actually doesn't bother me. I would say we're flattered more than anything," CEO Mike Karnjanaprakorn said in an email.</p>
<p>Betabeat has been on the clone/fast follower beat for a while. If you are as tickled by this topic as we are, check out <a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/30/clone-wars-paperless-post-up-in-arms-over-evites-new-copycat-site-postmark/">Evite's ripoff of local startup Paperless Post</a> and <a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/02/clone-wars-rise-of-the-fast-follower-startups/">further musings on the fast follower phenom</a>.</p>
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Do you want a <a href="http://Skillshare.com">Skillshare</a> clone for Christmas? Have one built today! There are 20 bids over at the free programming classifieds site <a href="http://www.scriptlance.com/projects/1322480076.shtml?ref=sosexpert">scriptlance.com</a>, where an entrepreneur has requested a double of the popular democratized teaching platform. "I need a developer who can clone <a rel="nofollow" href="http://skillshare.com/" target="_blank">skillshare.com</a> for me as it is with the functionality. Looking for a good price and skills who can communicate on day to day basis. I am open to use any php frameworks or CMS," says the Nov. 28 post.</p>
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<p>Unlike past ads we've seen for clones, programmers seem to be chomping at the bit to build a bizarro Skillshare. "***I Am Abel To do it SIR*** AND HIGHLY INTERESTED," says one bidder who offered to do it in $25 days for $1,300. "We are very much interested in the project," said another who offered to do it in 35 days, but for $2,000. The bids range from $5,o00 in 100 days to $450 in 25 days. One user proposed building the site in three days for $480. Seems like a good place to find Skillshare's next engineer!</p>
<p>Another ad, <a href="http://w3digg.com/2011/11/freelancing-jobs/content-writer/156261.html">posted on Odesk</a> on the same day but with slightly different wording, requests a "Skillshare copy" and says it's originating in Singapore. Singapore Skillshare! We can't wait to see the $500 version of a fast-growing New York startup that has raised more than $3 million from Founder Collective, SV Angel, Collaborative Fund and others, and just rolled out a <a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/30/skillshare-redesign-focus-on-skill/">majorly spiffed up overhaul</a>.</p>
<p>"It actually doesn't bother me. I would say we're flattered more than anything," CEO Mike Karnjanaprakorn said in an email.</p>
<p>Betabeat has been on the clone/fast follower beat for a while. If you are as tickled by this topic as we are, check out <a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/30/clone-wars-paperless-post-up-in-arms-over-evites-new-copycat-site-postmark/">Evite's ripoff of local startup Paperless Post</a> and <a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/02/clone-wars-rise-of-the-fast-follower-startups/">further musings on the fast follower phenom</a>.</p>
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