Platform hub
Google autopsy hub
Google is included because its public product history contains reusable decisions worth studying.
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Company teardowns
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Feature stories
First 3
Reader gate
Company context
Hub before story.
The company page keeps the system context, company teardown, and feature autopsies together without making the article routes more complex.
Hub thesis
Google autopsies from the HackProduct draft library.
Drafts
Markdown source briefs converted into the reading system.
Publish
Each readable story requires source, copy, image, and route validation.
Feature autopsies
Feature stories in the Google hub
Feature autopsy
Gmail Undo Send
A delay made a destructive action feel reversible.
Feature autopsy
How YouTube Made Watching the Default
A small countdown next to the player turned the end of every video into the start of another, and quietly rewrote what a YouTube session means.
Feature autopsy
How Google Learned to Spell Without a Dictionary
A search engine taught itself to correct misspellings by treating its own query log as the only dictionary that mattered.
Feature autopsy
YouTube's Pivot to Creators
How YouTube transformed from a video-hosting utility into a creator economy by sharing advertising revenue with uploaders in 2007 , and what that decision cost every other video platform that didn't.