What’s going on here? 
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I have to say, I’m curious about the guy’s strategy.
It seems he’s doing this under his own name, and on behalf of his agency, which appears to have been around for several years.
I don’t think we need to look too far; he probably just wants visibility, adding plugins to his portfolio to deceive uninformed clients about his ability to develop them. We’ll see if he actually manages to publish public some of these duplicated plugins.
But still, even though forking a plugin isn’t complicated, the auto AI descriptions, and the buggy example pages aren’t too long to create, all of this still requires a certain effort. I doubt it will bring him much, though there’s no doubt that it’s super annoying.
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He’s actually got 17 plugins on the marketplace… most of which he’s charging $20 for… all of which (seemingly) are complete copies of existing free plugins.
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I hear my inner Eli screaming: this guy is over here copy-pasta’ing plugins and Bubble is happily taking a cut?!
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Currently investigating this. Giving the user the benefit of the doubt but agreed, it looks sus
Edit: We took action. Thank you to everyone that flagged the posts for review
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I friggen knew that was suspect. I saw nothing but plugin-after-plugin and here we are actually building plugins that take us weeks if not months to create and he’s spewing them out at 1 plugin an hour. lol.
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It became a bit suspicious to me when a Groq plugin description mentioned all the wonders one may do with “Graph-Relational Object Queries” providing basically Groq.com chatbot API experience - wasn’t aware they were also specialised in query languages.
It became a little more suspicious when the screenshot mentioned Asana search as use-case.
I gave up as the demo app couldn’t load due to zillions of plugins installed.
End of the story.
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This is a real not uncommon problem (e.g., Larger agencies are "ripping" people's ideas without giving credit) and Bubble can easily handle this issue themselves without leaning on its forum to help them. It’s not difficult to do a compare of the plugin code before approving them and by doing so internally Bubble can free up their forum to focus on what they do best - QA for all updates! 
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