Contents
Categories
▤ Directories & indexes
A table, a filter, and an opinion. The table is free. The opinion is not.
⌁ Links & pages
A row of buttons on a coloured background, valued at nine figures.
▧ Productivity
Where everyone keeps the notes they will never read again.
◳ Design tools
Canvases, cursors, and the terrible mathematics of multiplayer.
⌘ Dev tools
Sold to the only customers who can tell how hard it was.
¶ Publishing
A text box, a send button, and a decade of deliverability scar tissue.
$ Payments & money
The code is the easy part and the code is not easy.
◎ Marketplaces & community
Copy the whole site and you have copied an empty room.
▚ Infrastructure
You can copy the dashboard. Good luck with the other bit.
◉ Media & capture
Recording is solved. Everything after recording is not.
◆ Games & toys
The most copied software on earth, and nobody minds.
◱ Analytics
Counting things is easy. Counting them the same way twice is not.
◌ Chat & comms
Trivial to build, impossible to get anyone to move into.
▮ Commerce
A shopping cart, and then eleven years of tax edge cases.
⚿ Security & identity
The one category where getting it 99% right is a breach.
▤ Files & storage
Sync is a distributed systems problem wearing a folder icon.