Can we stop putting any of these product ideas on pedestals, as if they were acts of technological genius? They are all incremental interesting improvements, often thought of around the same years with unique insights, but not some revolutionary inventions no one has tried to build before. They are what they are because of their execution.

I'm referring to design.

And Notion is a better clone of Quip.

And both are a shameless clone of Microsoft Sharepoint - it all comes full circle

Which was built to combat Lotus Notes

Which is a clone of Confluence, which is a clone of any wiki software.

can you really clone a broad category? Wouldn't we just call that an alternative implementation?

Wouldnt be so funny, would it?

Would parent's statement be more accurate if they said MediaWiki?

Isn't SharePoint a clone of lotus notes (without any of the cool parts)?

Relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083014