[morisy]

For a while, when I came up with a really clever, original one-liner, I'd search Twitter history and find that it had already been made dozens of times.

Worse, we started a business and scoured around, looking to see if anyone had ever tried it. A little over a year in, we realize someone else had started it, two years before us, but with slightly different terminology. Fortunately, but we're both still around and kicking over a decade later, though with a good understanding now of why not many other folks had tried it.

[failrate]

This happens to me every time I release a new game. Some combination of zeitgeist and Baader-Meinhoff means that I will see basically the same thing released at basically the same time, usually a better implementation.

[D-Coder]

Yep.

A friend was discussing how her cat loved to be with her 100% of the time, but when she took a shower, the cat was distressed.

In a moment of cleverness, I suggested the obvious solution: a cat raincoat.

Then I searched the web and found lots of cat raincoats.