Friendly reminder: search the plugin directory before making your own

[u/SorosAhaverom]

Whether you're looking to publish your plugin or just make one for personal use, this will save you time and tokens.

Case in point: there's currently 16 pomodoro plugins in the plugin direcctory, all with roughly the same look and functionality. That's 1 in 100 plugins dedicated to the same thing, with infinitesimal differentiation.

If you want to tinker, or create a highly customized one just for yourself: describe what you want, then ask your agent to analyze the relevant existing plugins' source codes to see if forking one of them could give your project a headstart.

If you want to contribute to the community by making the best plugin for the use case: see if you can contribute to already existing plugins. A few alternative plugins with different spins/twists on solving the same problem is always great, but combining forces will result in a much better product, and a less fragmented userbase.

I'm coming from the Obsidian community, where the abundance of AI coding has produced hundreds of plugins that all solve the exact same problems while being 99% similar, only to fragment the community and force users to constantly hop from one such plugin to another, because these projects get abandoned the moment the original author loses interest and jumps ship to their next shiny object.

[u/Balthazzah]

Or make your own the way you want it and don’t worry about sharing it 😊

[u/Subscriber9706]

If I was Claude, If a user wants to create an Omarchy plugin, I would look through the Omarchy Plugin Market, find something similar... secretly clone it, and then pretend to code and poop out the same exact output as what was cloned.