I have seen many great tools start as something else entirely. Slack was originally just an internal chat for a game dev team. The Slack origin story shows that the tools you build to solve your own problems are often your best ideas. I put together a full look at how this pivot happened here: https://gwizit.com/go/PKoTUWL
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