... reading about the origins of Slack recently. It started as an internal chat tool for a team building a multiplayer game called Glitch. The game flopped but the internal comms tool turned out to be the real gold. So they shut down the game and shipped the chat, the rest is startup legend. It s a reminder that some of the best products aren t the original

... ChatGPT has been on the market for the longest period. It has the biggest share (77.66%) and people are somehow used to it. DeepSeek also experienced a huge boom but there were concerns about data because of China's origins. Some people are inclined to Grok tho they are also beginning to doubt whether Musk will start applying some form of censorship and proofreading of information. Gemini, Perplexity & Claude are also frequently cited models ... ... certain use case, there's only one valid option - self-hosting a model.  As for the code, it is basically the same stuff over and over with different names and comments, so it can be obfuscated. Example: Original