Someone plagiarized my product and got #3 on Product Hunt
I built this popular browser extension "ChatGPT for Google" that got over 200k users under one month.
I recently find someone plagiarized my product, he basically downloaded the extension code, changed few lines of code and the name, re-upload it to Chrome Web Store. Then he published it to Product Hunt, even get #3 that day.
What can I do?
My product:
https://chatgpt4google.com
I've also published to Product Hunt:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/chatgpt-for-google
The theft: (do not give it upvote)
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/chatgpt-for-search-engines
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Indie hackers selling to indie hackers?
Consider this for next time?
From stack overflow, I can't post links yet..
The only way to prevent anyone with your extension from seeing the logic is to move it out of the extension that runs on a user computer and into a web service that the extension accesses.
Since this will slow down the works quite a bit, you should only do this for the really valuable parts of your code.
So cheap Chinese knockoff again?
that's sad but unfortunately, you can't do anything about it. you can make your product more valuable by pivoting or adding more features
not sure you can do anything. just keep working on your product!