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Show HN: WhitePad - iPhone-sized whiteboard - our first physical product

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My fiancee came up with this idea looking at me and my co-founders sketching app UI's on a whiteboard. Now she needs to raise $6k usd to take it from a prototype to a real product. I'm using one and loving it!

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iPhone-shaped paper notepads were C&D'd by Apple years ago. Is this produced under license from Apple? If not, isn't it awfully risky for anyone to contribute to the campaign when Apple could C&D you at any time?

http://ask.metafilter.com/165665/Is-there-anything-I-can-do-...

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iPhone-shaped paper notepads were C&D'd by Apple years ago. Is this produced under license from Apple? If not, isn't it awfully risky for anyone to contribute to the campaign when Apple could C&D you at any time? http://ask.metafilter.com/165665/Is-there-anything-I-can-do-...

You can't patent a 3x5 rectangular piece of plastic. Worst case they have to remove the design from the front and make it a little less specific.

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iPhone-shaped paper notepads were C&D'd by Apple years ago. Is this produced under license from Apple? If not, isn't it awfully risky for anyone to contribute to the campaign when Apple could C&D you at any time? http://ask.metafilter.com/165665/Is-there-anything-I-can-do-...

That's a good one, haven't heard of this before. Personally i think apple relaxed a bit from what they've been doing 3 years a go and have other things to worry about. Besides the design of WhitePad matches a number of other products on the market not only an iPhone.

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iPhone-shaped paper notepads were C&D'd by Apple years ago. Is this produced under license from Apple? If not, isn't it awfully risky for anyone to contribute to the campaign when Apple could C&D you at any time? http://ask.metafilter.com/165665/Is-there-anything-I-can-do-...

You can't patent a 3x5 rectangular piece of plastic. Worst case they have to remove the design from the front and make it a little less specific.

I thought in Apple vs. Samsung, one of Apple's patents that was upheld was rounded corners -_-

http://asia.cnet.com/apple-wins-patent-on-a-rectangle-with-r...

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't patent a 3x5 rectangular piece of plastic. Worst case they have to remove the design from the front and make it a little less specific.

I thought in Apple vs. Samsung, one of Apple's patents that was upheld was rounded corners -_- http://asia.cnet.com/apple-wins-patent-on-a-rectangle-with-r...

Yeah, but rounded corners in phones :) not whiteboards. Anyways the whole patent-thing is getting ridiculous.

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Cool! At first I thought it was a joke until I saw the intended purpose for devs/designers....I'd buy one, just imagine I would really need a fine tip whiteboard marker.

The regular ones work well enough for me. I know my fiancee's already talking to some companies about producing a thin-tip marker especially for this.
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