Revit Add-ons Has Competition: Introducing RVT Plugins

So, somebody's stealing food from our babies' mouths... 😉

RVT Plugins is a competing site that bills itself as "your guide to the best Revit add-ins." We thought, perhaps, that the site was started during one of our fallow periods to fill the resulting void. However, the site was established in 2018, while Revit Add-ons was in full swing, so we're not sure what the impetus was. (Revit Add-ons was itself established in 2011, and we made 500 posts in 2018.)

What's the difference? At first blush, RVT Plugins seems to have more product reviews. However, upon closer inspection, these are generic enough that they could have been AI generated. Microsoft Copilot will do it for you from available standard Internet sources, just build "format as a review" into the prompt. While we don't have the time it takes to do many reviews here on Revit Add-ons, our reviews are strictly hands-on, and therefore, we hope, worth your valuable time.

We will give props to RVT Plugins for using a very modern blog template, though I think we'll keep our more traditional blog roll format. While our host Blogger is the venerated grandaddy of blog hosting sites, RVT Plugins may be using a more modern hosting service, like Wix. If we were starting today, that's probably what we'd do. 😏 (We hope Blogger doesn't see this...)

RVT Plugins also has a convenient Subscribe feature, which notifies readers of new posts via email. We used to have an email subscription gadget on Revit Add-ons but Blogger, unfortunately, deprecated it. We'll see if we can set something up through a third party. Ditto for Facebook and LinkedIn gadgets. In the meantime, the best thing to do is to follow us on the socials: rvtaddons on X, Tim Grimm on LinkedIn, or rvtaddons on Facebook.

We'll note that a whopping eleven of the twelve posts on RVT Plugins' homepage, and these are the eleven most recent, correspond to Revit Add-ons posts made since our August 3rd relaunch. Coincidence? That seems... unlikely.

We'll also note that you won't get op ed articles like this one on RVT Plugins. And they're obviously very valuable indeed. 😎

Ultimately, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and competition is healthy. So we've gone so far as to link to RVT Plugins in our "Other Revit Add-in Resource Sites" gadget. For your information, their URL is https://rvtplugins.com/.

(At least we won't feel bad about poaching their advertisers. 😆)

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