Clonezone.link Website Review

How We Faked a Startup A Website Cloning Tool and the Problem of Personalized “Fact”. April Fools was the perfect day to do this. Our web tool, Clone Zone which lets users clone any website online and edits its content, wasn't quite ready for official launch, yet April 1st was the time to put it to the test. Naturally we went on a search for a juicy website to clone. We decided on this article from TechCrunch about a recently funded startup. After a few quick edits with the Clone Zone, we had a believable post about Clone Zone ‘the startup’. Thats my co-founder and I in the pic above, closing $1.8m seed round lead by Andreessen Horowitz. We giddily shared the turned out to be more believable than we ever anticipated with likes and reposts rollin in right away. Even two weeks later we are still getting congratulated on our ‘million dollar success’. Whenever we go out to a social event we inevitably end up having to explain to someone that no, we are not rolling in dough and can't actually afford to buy a bottle of Cristal for everyone. Even with the Clone Zone logo at the bottom of the clone and the not-so-conspicuous url, a majority of our friends and family fell for it. Turns out the article was even pas*ed around the Genius office, a real and well-funded startup who we mentioned in the TechCrunch article. Apparently their initial concern about not being hyper-linked properly escalated to a discussion about the necessity to acquire the new competitor — Clone Zone the startup. Of course we were psyched about the fact that Clone Zone worked so well, spreading like wildfire form share to share. But more importantly it reaffirmed our company’s reasoning behind making the app. So what exactly is Clone Zone? Clone Zone is an online tool we made at 4REAL as an art project. It lets you clone any web page on the internet, edit any text and images on the page and share the result on social media. So if you want to have your picture in the New York times you can chose an existing NYTimes article, add your picture,