is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. And now, even the products being sold to us — clothing, home decor, gadgets, and more — are looking eerily similar to one another. Ho shares her experience creating her own line of athletic wear that sooner or later gets ripped off by countless copycats — and how she tries to fight back. Fashion is a wasteful industry, not unlike tech — but luckily, there are people like the Fabscrap staff and volunteers who are working toward solutions.