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Excel Never Dies
Layer doesn't reinvent a spreadsheet product from the ground up, but creates a complementary layer on top of existing spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel) which is interesting because:
Clement Vouillon • Layer Memo
Since the emergence of productivity software in the 1980s, it was sufficient for a long time to entirely focus on features (1st wave of differentiation). This is not surprising as a large value could already be created by adding desired features to very rudimentary software products.
Felix Schmitt • The Era of Opinionated Productivity Software: Superhuman, Roam, What’s Next? | HackerNoon
Going back to Excel and shifting my metaphor up a level, today ChatGPT sometimes seems more like the original PCs than like Excel (or VisiCalc). It’s a general purpose technology, there’s a command line, and some stuff that’s theoretically magic, and a few things that are extremely useful to a few people, but we don’t yet have the richness of all t... See more