HACKER Q&A
📣 90s_dev

What are some "eureka" projects?


A eureka project is when someone has a eureka moment, writes a project in a relatively short amount of time, and it explodes in popularity yet retians longevity.

An example is git, written in a couple weeks and became the primary vcs today.

What are other examples?

  👤 eimrine Accepted Answer ✓
P2p, Bitcoin and other tools from cryptography. Rest of Mathematics. Religions, especially Islam. Inventing a wheel. Maybe even inventing a stick. So, almost anything fits.