Hi @michael_hansen11 I totally understand you.
SuperCmd is open source and completely free, so you’re welcome to contribute and make it even better!
SuperCmd is MIT licensed, and so are the Raycast extensions. Raycast extensions are community driven, and it’s great that anyone can contribute and reuse them. So it’s not like I’m copying and calling it my own. I’m taking something that’s open source and keeping it open source. And we have a mention and reference to Raycast and Raycast Extensions on SuperCMD’s Readme page.
Now, just to make it not look like a copy, I can’t make a completely different design that no one is familiar with. You stick to what works and what’s proven. Countless hours and days have been spent trying to figure out what works, and it’s impossible for one person to research it all from scratch. Consumers expect the same experience because they are used to it. Same UI, same patterns make switching easy. Not that I really wanted to copy. It’s just the law of “switching costs” that you need to minimize. I’m just building on what has already been proven to work, as everyone else does.
Now, SuperCmd also offers canvas, voice dictation, natural-sounding text-to-speech, and custom backgrounds. Things Raycast doesn’t have. If Raycast adds them tomorrow, should I be stupid? No! I believe that competition forces you to move faster and make better products. I’m sure Raycast must have learned something new from the launch of SuperCmd.
I hope this helps.