Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are “lawfare”
He says Whoop previously reached out to explore a collaboration before filing the suit.
Inc.com Leila Sheridan
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@greyngyen
Grey
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@WHOOP just filed a lawsuit against us. A $10B company with 800+ employees is scared of us, a 20-person team making health tracking accessible to all. Rather than focusing on product and innovation, Whoop has decided to use its newly raised capital on lawfare. In this video, I [v…
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@robjama
Robleh
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bevel definitely copied whoop's UI, that's literally the only reason i downloaded it. bevel is whoop without the hardware but it's stupid for whoop to sue them for it. strain rings, sleep & recovery scores... these stopped being whoop's design and just became how health
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@adityaag
Aditya Agarwal
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It's amazing when a $10B company sues you because your app “looks and feels” like theirs Let me give you a tip: Instead of spending 300 bucks on an over-priced @WHOOP , you can get @bevel_health for free. We want to bring great health to *everyone*. We will build, not
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@hemeon
Marc Hemeon
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I watched this video from Grey and its SO clear they are totally in the clear - many of Bevels designs were actually copied by Whoop. I really don't love when a company raises tons and tons of money and then starts Lawfare. A products design should be enough to win customers.
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@bevel_health
@bevel_health
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Whoop filed a lawsuit against us, and this is our response. TL;DW: - June 2024: Whoop's Corp Dev reached out wanting to “explore collaboration” - 5 months later: cease and desist letter - Their demands: disable dark mode (ours defaults to light mode), rename common words like
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@henrikberggren
Henrik
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Incredibly bad look @WHOOP - focus on helping people, not suing the competition
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@amritwt
Amrit
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$10B company sued a startup for having “Dark mode” Hilarious
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@pitdesi
Sheel Mohnot
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What are the all-time best Streisand effect marketing campaigns? -United sues Skiplagged, teaching millions (incl me!) about hidden city ticketing -Lululemon sues Costco for pants being too similar at 1/10th the price -The Pirate Bay raids (how I learned about them)
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@stammy
@stammy
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imagine getting sued because you use circles and rectangles in a similar orientation as another app. i didn't have a dog in this fight and don't use either product but whoop comes off looking really bad here
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@rsuyoy
@rsuyoy
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Very pitiful stuff from Whoop. Feeling threatened by a small software first company as a hardware firm valued at billions, over something as trivial as UI design is very lame.
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@kshvbgde
Keshav
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isn't it amazing when a $10B company sues you because your app has “dark mode”, lol
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@jayair
Jay
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This lawsuit will backfire and Whoop is about to learn a lesson Congrats to Bevel Trust me, we know how this is going to go
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@levelsio
@levelsio
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What I hate about copyright and trademark law is that you're essentially forced by the law to send legal letters, takedown requests and eventually sue If you don't, whatever rights you own are invalidated in court whenever you do really need to defend them by the judge because