Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?

Peter Thiel has written about the "10x rule" for startups, where your innovation has to be 10 times better than the second best option [1].

Have you personally experienced such 10x improvements in your own interactions with software? What were they?

[1] - https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2015/07/13/the-10x-rule-for-great-startup-ideas/

Yes, the thing in iOS that automatically clips SMS verification codes sent to you. It saves me from going to my messages and finding the code.

Not sure if this is the kind of thing you had in mind, but...

`clang-format` saves a non-trivial chunk of time during code reviews, eliding a very banal topic.

mtailor and their fancy body measurement algorithm.

Storage combinators [1] Which are my own, so shameless plug, I guess. When I wrote the paper, I asked colleagues if they could say something about the productivity increase. They wrote back that it was a 2x improvement, which I put in the paper. When I bumped into them at a meet-up, they confided it was actually more like 10x, but they didn't say that because they felt it sounded unrealistic.

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[1] http://objective.st/Publications/