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Great, now we can post a Slack link to a Confluence page that links back to a Slack Canvas that links to a Google Doc that links to a Slack thread that says to look in Jira for that outdated video on Sharepoint.

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Surely "notion" is in that chain somewhere as well lol. Yeah, I really dislike when tools try to reach outside their "lane" (See: everything Dropbox has done that isn't storing files), you get abandoned half-implemented things that you get forced to use because "well we already pay for X and it has Y feature". If ever there was a use for the "I want X, we have X at home"-meme it would be cases like this. I wish more companies strived (strove? apparently both are valid) to just be the best at 1 thing instead of branching out into things they just aren't good at and won't continue working on. I guess I make some exceptions for the Google/Apple/Microsoft's of the world where it can be beneficial to have a "platform version" of most basic tools (passwords, notes, calendar, etc) but for other companies I feel like it would be better for everyone if they stayed in their lane.

> I wish more companies strived (strove? apparently both are valid) to just be the best at 1 thing instead of branching out into things they just aren't good at and won't continue working on.

GNU/Linux takes a similar approach to commands available in user space. IMO, companies are obligated to chase the profit to the detriment of their product being simple, and this is why this naturally occurs.

There are about 4 upper/lower case letters which are not valid options to ls. Maybe it really is just doing one thing but I’m not exactly sure that this is an example to follow.

Sounds like you would love https://axolo.co/, which creates a Slack channel for every GitHub PR and bidirectionally syncs all GitHub PR comments and messages to that Slack channel.

Someone should create a startup to track all that! /s

My friends and I have a running joke about the name "Mosiac".

Every company I've worked for has had something called Mosiac and it's always a pain to interact with.

Someone should make a startup called Mosiac for tracking information across many different tools.

It's been done (unsurprisingly): https://www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/products/mosaic/

I don't always come to HN to find good pieces of creative writing, but every now and then there are nuggets like this that give me a big grin. Thank you for this.

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