Michael, maybe next time spend 10 minutes actually verifying your accusations before publicly embarrassing yourself.
I haven't copied a single paid template's source code. I've used publicly accessible preview links as visual references and asked AI to recreate similar designs. That's literally the entire experiment.
And here's what you're conveniently ignoring: these aren't even exact replicas. A lot of them have visual differences, missing functionality, and things that straight-up break. They're AI-generated experiments, not production-ready replacements for the originals.
The entire point of this repository is to demonstrate how easily AI can turn a visual reference into a working starting point. It's for developers who are looking for inspiration, boilerplates, or a foundation to build something of their own.
I've even open-sourced the exact AI agent and workflow used to generate these experiments. The prompts, implementations, and commit history are publicly available.
github.com/pulkitxm/claud…
You could've inspected all of this before throwing around accusations of theft. Using a publicly available preview as inspiration is not the same thing as copying someone's proprietary source code.
And yes, I genuinely believe AI is killing the value proposition of generic paid UI templates. When developers can generate, iterate, and customize similar interfaces themselves, paying hundreds of dollars for a starting point becomes increasingly difficult to justify.
That's the shift this repository is trying to demonstrate. Not that AI generates perfect replicas, but that it makes building from inspiration dramatically more accessible.
If you believe something was unlawfully copied, show the actual evidence. Don't just point at visual similarities and pretend you've proven source-code theft.
Next time, try understanding what someone has built before writing an entire outrage thread about it. You're attacking an experiment you clearly haven't bothered to understand.
