# 100 Products That Changed the World

> All scores by Claude (AI) · PRODUCTS · THE 100 THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
> https://doaipm.com/en/great-products/

Only commercial products that actually shipped and were actually used at scale. We judge the product itself — not the company’s market cap, not the founder’s myth. Six attributes, one OVR score, and deep-dives lighting up the list one product at a time.

## How the scores work

Each attribute is scored 0–99 and weighted into an overall OVR (Originality 20% · Scale 20% · Impact 15% · Experience 15% · Business 15% · Durability 15%). Ranking is OVR, descending. The big difference from the people board is durability: products die, and dead products cannot score well on that axis — the Model T, the Walkman and the Famicom all lose rank because of it, deliberately. All scores are produced by Claude, Anthropic’s AI model: doaipm sets the dimensions and rules, Claude scores independently. Disagree? Come argue.

ORG Originality 20% · SCL Scale 20% · IMP Impact 15% · EXP Experience 15% · BIZ Business 15% · DUR Durability 15%

## Prologue · No. 0

**The wheel** — Mesopotamia, c. 3500 BCE · Where products begin

The wheel is not scored: no company, no brand, no price, and no one to credit. It is here as a reminder that products are much older than business — this board only starts counting the day someone made a living from one.

## Pantheon · 95+

| # | Product | ORG | SCL | IMP | EXP | BIZ | DUR | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸 **iPhone** (2007 · Apple · Smartphone) — It compressed the phone, the Walkman, the camera, the map, the wallet and the whole internet into one sheet of glass; every phone since is a footnote. [→](https://doaipm.com/en/blog/the-one-thing-iphone-got-right/) | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 96 | **98** |
| 2 | 🇺🇸 **Google Search** (1998 · Google · Search engine) — One empty input box took over how humanity finds answers — and turned attention into something you could auction. [→](https://doaipm.com/en/blog/google-invented-neither/) | 96 | 99 | 98 | 95 | 99 | 97 | **97** |
| 3 | 🇺🇸 **Coca-Cola** (1886 · The Coca-Cola Company · Beverage) — The formula barely changed in 140 years; the bottle, the red and sheer availability turned sugar water into a global symbol. | 95 | 99 | 92 | 90 | 98 | 99 | **96** |
| 4 | 🇺🇸 **The credit card** (1958 · Bank of America (BankAmericard → Visa) · Payments) — In 1958 they airdropped 60,000 cards on one city, betting people would accept buy-now-pay-later; today the network clears trillions. | 96 | 98 | 96 | 88 | 97 | 97 | **96** |
| 5 | 🇨🇳 **WeChat** (2011 · Tencent · Super app) — One app holds a billion-plus people’s chat, payments, identity and mini-programs — and its restraint is exactly why nobody can leave. | 92 | 96 | 95 | 96 | 94 | 96 | **95** |

## Legends · 90–94

| # | Product | ORG | SCL | IMP | EXP | BIZ | DUR | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 🇺🇸 **Windows** (1985 · Microsoft · Operating system) — Not the best GUI, just the one that landed on every desk on earth: compatibility beat elegance. | 88 | 99 | 96 | 82 | 99 | 97 | **94** |
| 7 | 🇺🇸 **The Amazon store** (1995 · Amazon · E-commerce) — Started with books and made everything-in-stock, next-day, no-questions-returns the new floor of retail. | 90 | 96 | 96 | 92 | 96 | 96 | **94** |
| 8 | 🇺🇸 **AWS** (2006 · Amazon · Cloud computing) — Turned the data center into an API billed by the hour; two decades of the internet grew on top of it. | 97 | 92 | 97 | 85 | 98 | 95 | **94** |
| 9 | 🇺🇸 **YouTube** (2005 · Google · Video platform) — An upload button handed broadcast power to everyone and created a job called “creator”. | 92 | 98 | 95 | 88 | 93 | 95 | **94** |
| 10 | 🇺🇸 **The shipping container** (1956 · Malcom McLean / Sea-Land · Logistics) — A steel box cut ocean freight by over 90%; globalization wasn’t negotiated into being, it was packed into one. | 98 | 95 | 99 | 80 | 90 | 98 | **94** |
| 11 | 🇺🇸 **The McDonald’s system** (1948 · McDonald’s · Food service) — Broke the kitchen into an assembly line so a teenager could produce, in 90 seconds, the same burger as one 3,000 km away. | 95 | 97 | 92 | 85 | 95 | 97 | **94** |
| 12 | 🇺🇸 **Android** (2008 · Google · Operating system) — The iPhone defined the smartphone; Android handed it to the other seven billion — free and open was the fiercest distribution play ever run. | 85 | 99 | 95 | 88 | 95 | 95 | **93** |
| 13 | 🇺🇸 **Facebook** (2004 · Meta · Social network) — Real names plus the feed put three billion people on one social graph — and handed “what you should see” to an algorithm. | 92 | 98 | 95 | 85 | 97 | 92 | **93** |
| 14 | 🇺🇸 **ChatGPT** (2022 · OpenAI · AI assistant) — A chat box let ordinary people command a frontier model — 100M users in two months. Its low durability score just means it is three years old. | 98 | 96 | 98 | 92 | 90 | 78 | **93** |
| 15 | 🇨🇳 **Alipay** (2004 · Ant Group · Payments) — When nobody dared wire money to a stranger, escrow invented trust for a whole country — and skipped the credit-card generation entirely. | 92 | 93 | 94 | 92 | 93 | 95 | **93** |
| 16 | 🇨🇳 **Douyin / TikTok** (2016 · ByteDance · Short video) — Dropped the follow graph and kept only the algorithm — the first content product to scale globally without social ties, and the first Chinese app to truly conquer the world. | 90 | 96 | 95 | 94 | 94 | 88 | **93** |
| 17 | 🇺🇸 **Air conditioning** (1902 · Carrier · Appliance) — Invented to control humidity in a print shop, it ended up redrawing where humans can live — no Singapore, no Dubai, no US Sun Belt without it. | 95 | 95 | 95 | 82 | 90 | 97 | **93** |
| 18 | 🇺🇸 **Google Maps** (2005 · Google · Maps) — A draggable map plus Street View plus live traffic made “getting lost” disappear for an entire generation. | 88 | 96 | 93 | 93 | 88 | 95 | **92** |
| 19 | 🇺🇸 **Netflix streaming** (2007 · Netflix · Streaming) — Whole seasons at once, monthly subscription, no ads — it killed the video store and the very idea of a broadcast schedule. | 92 | 90 | 95 | 92 | 90 | 92 | **92** |
| 20 | 🇩🇰 **The LEGO brick** (1958 · LEGO · Toy) — The 1958 stud-and-tube tolerance was cut so precisely that a brick bought today still clicks onto your father’s. | 92 | 92 | 88 | 95 | 90 | 98 | **92** |
| 21 | 🇯🇵 **Honda Super Cub** (1958 · Honda · Motorcycle) — Over 100 million built — the most-produced motor vehicle in history. It turned the motorcycle from a biker’s toy into Asia’s legs. | 88 | 95 | 88 | 92 | 90 | 97 | **92** |
| 22 | 🇺🇸 **Google Ads (AdWords)** (2000 · Google · Ad system) — Pay-per-click plus real-time auction turned advertising from a gamble into a calculable cost of goods — and paid for the free internet. | 95 | 90 | 96 | 75 | 99 | 95 | **92** |
| 23 | 🇬🇧 **The ARM architecture** (1985 · Arm · Chip architecture) — It never manufactured a chip, it licensed low-power design — and now sits behind nearly every battery you carry. | 92 | 99 | 95 | 75 | 90 | 97 | **92** |
| 24 | 🇺🇸 **The safety elevator** (1853 · Otis · Building equipment) — The moment Otis cut the rope on stage and the car did not fall, cities were allowed to grow upward; the skyscraper is a by-product of the elevator. | 95 | 92 | 95 | 85 | 85 | 97 | **92** |
| 25 | 🇺🇸 **Excel** (1985 · Microsoft · Productivity) — VisiCalc invented the spreadsheet; Excel made it the mother tongue of business — and it is still most companies’ real operating system. | 80 | 96 | 93 | 85 | 92 | 97 | **90** |
| 26 | 🇯🇵 **Super Mario Bros.** (1985 · Nintendo · Game) — It teaches every control in the first 30 seconds without a single word of text; forty years on it is still lesson one in level design. | 92 | 87 | 95 | 95 | 85 | 87 | **90** |
| 27 | 🇩🇪 **Aspirin** (1899 · Bayer · Medicine) — The first industrially produced synthetic drug; 120 years on it lives a second life as the daily tablet that prevents heart attacks. | 90 | 96 | 90 | 82 | 82 | 99 | **90** |

## Masters · 85–89

| # | Product | ORG | SCL | IMP | EXP | BIZ | DUR | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 🇺🇸 **Instagram** (2010 · Meta · Photo social) — Filters plus a square frame dropped the cost of a good-looking photo to zero — and set the visual taste of the next fifteen years. | 85 | 91 | 90 | 90 | 87 | 89 | **89** |
| 29 | 🇨🇳 **Taobao** (2003 · Alibaba · E-commerce) — Free storefronts, haggling by IM, escrow payments — it moved millions of small merchants online and reshaped Chinese retail. | 85 | 91 | 93 | 85 | 92 | 91 | **89** |
| 30 | 🇯🇵 **Pokémon** (1996 · Game Freak / Nintendo · Game / IP) — Two versions you must trade between wrote player relationships into the product itself — and built the highest-grossing IP in history. | 88 | 89 | 88 | 87 | 92 | 90 | **89** |
| 31 | 🇯🇵 **PlayStation** (1994 · Sony · Console) — CDs instead of cartridges and a decade older audience — the first time games were run as an adult entertainment business. | 85 | 89 | 92 | 87 | 90 | 92 | **89** |
| 32 | 🇺🇸 **The Pill** (1960 · Searle (Enovid) · Medicine) — One tablet made childbearing schedulable; the curve of women entering the workforce tracks its adoption curve almost exactly. | 95 | 87 | 97 | 82 | 82 | 92 | **89** |
| 33 | 🇺🇸 **The Gillette safety razor** (1901 · Gillette · Personal care) — Sell the handle cheap, sell the blades forever — printers, consoles and coffee pods are still copying a pricing structure from 1901. | 92 | 89 | 88 | 79 | 92 | 92 | **89** |
| 34 | 🇺🇸 **Levi’s 501 jeans** (1873 · Levi Strauss & Co. · Apparel) — Workwear for miners that survived 150 years on one detail — the rivet — and became the uniform of youth along the way. | 92 | 92 | 85 | 82 | 85 | 95 | **89** |
| 35 | 🇸🇪 **Minecraft** (2011 · Mojang · Game) — No goal, no plot, decade-old graphics, 300 million copies sold — because what it sells is not a game, it is land. | 88 | 89 | 88 | 87 | 89 | 89 | **88** |
| 36 | 🇺🇸 **Steam** (2003 · Valve · Game platform) — It started as a forced updater players hated for five years, and ended up as the cash register and shelf of PC gaming. | 88 | 85 | 90 | 82 | 90 | 92 | **88** |
| 37 | 🇺🇸 **AirPods** (2016 · Apple · Audio) — Mocked as electric-toothbrush heads on launch day; one experience detail — open the lid and it is paired — built a ten-billion-dollar business. | 85 | 89 | 85 | 92 | 90 | 89 | **88** |
| 38 | 🇺🇸 **Photoshop** (1990 · Adobe · Creative software) — So dominant it became a verb — it defined retouching, and voided “pics or it didn’t happen” for thirty years. | 90 | 85 | 92 | 79 | 87 | 93 | **88** |
| 39 | 🇺🇸 **CUDA** (2006 · NVIDIA · Dev platform) — A software layer maintained for a decade when nobody asked for it, turning graphics cards into compute — every frontier model now runs inside that moat. | 95 | 82 | 97 | 69 | 92 | 92 | **88** |
| 40 | 🇯🇵 **Instant noodles** (1958 · Nissin · Food) — 120 billion servings a year. Momofuku Ando did not solve taste, he solved three minutes and hot water: cheap, shelf-stable, foolproof. | 90 | 94 | 85 | 79 | 85 | 94 | **88** |
| 41 | 🇸🇪 **IKEA flat-pack** (1956 · IKEA · Furniture) — Unscrewing the table legs killed shipping and warehousing costs — and turned assembly into something customers were happy to do for free. | 90 | 89 | 88 | 79 | 89 | 92 | **88** |
| 42 | 🇺🇸 **The Starbucks store** (1987 · Starbucks · Retail experience) — It never sold beans, it sold a third place between home and office — a definition that now holds up 40,000 stores. | 85 | 89 | 85 | 87 | 89 | 92 | **88** |
| 43 | 🇺🇸 **Air Jordan** (1985 · Nike · Sneakers) — The league fined it $5,000 a game and Nike paid gladly for the ad — it turned sneakers from sporting goods into appreciating culture. | 85 | 85 | 88 | 85 | 92 | 92 | **88** |
| 44 | 🇨🇳 **WeChat red packets** (2014 · Tencent · Payments) — It borrowed a gesture Chinese families already made and, over one Spring Festival, bound more bank cards than a decade of campaigns — the cleanest cold start ever run. | 88 | 89 | 90 | 89 | 85 | 89 | **88** |
| 45 | 🇺🇸 **Macintosh** (1984 · Apple · Personal computer) — The first GUI computer a normal person could buy. It never outsold Windows, yet every window, icon and cursor you see today was set by it. | 96 | 80 | 97 | 92 | 78 | 86 | **88** |
| 46 | 🇺🇸 **Ford Model T** (1908 · Ford · Automobile) — 15 million cars in nineteen years turned the automobile from a rich man’s toy into something a worker could afford. Its durability score is in the sixties because it died in 1927 — products end, and this dimension does not flatter anyone. [→](https://doaipm.com/en/blog/why-the-model-t-ranks-46th/) | 97 | 94 | 99 | 72 | 95 | 62 | **87** |
| 47 | 🇫🇮 **The Linux kernel** (1991 · Linus Torvalds & community · Operating system) — A student’s side project now runs almost every server, every Android phone and nearly all supercomputers — free, and unavoidable. | 85 | 96 | 97 | 68 | 74 | 96 | **86** |
| 48 | 🇺🇸 **Gmail** (2004 · Google · Email) — A gigabyte was 500× the competition and everyone assumed it was an April Fools’ prank; it quietly abolished the habit of deleting mail. | 82 | 88 | 88 | 86 | 79 | 89 | **85** |
| 49 | 🇸🇪 **Spotify** (2008 · Spotify · Music streaming) — You do not beat piracy by suing users, you beat it by being faster than piracy — that is how the record industry got pulled back from the cliff. | 85 | 84 | 90 | 86 | 79 | 86 | **85** |
| 50 | 🇺🇸 **Tesla Model S** (2012 · Tesla · Electric vehicle) — It proved an EV need not be a sacrifice but simply a faster, better car — the whole industry’s pivot starts here. | 92 | 74 | 96 | 86 | 79 | 84 | **85** |
| 51 | 🇨🇳 **DJI Phantom** (2013 · DJI · Drone) — Fly out of the box, return home with one tap — aerial video went from a film-crew line item to a weekend hobby, and DJI took 70% of the world. | 92 | 79 | 88 | 86 | 82 | 84 | **85** |
| 52 | 🇺🇸 **iPad** (2010 · Apple · Tablet) — Mocked at launch as a big iPhone; it ended up the only computer grandparents, toddlers and airline pilots actually want to use. | 85 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 86 | 86 | **85** |
| 53 | 🇺🇸 **GitHub** (2008 · GitHub / Microsoft · Developer platform) — It wrapped a hardcore tool in a social surface, and a programmer’s résumé became a wall of little green squares. | 85 | 84 | 92 | 79 | 82 | 86 | **85** |
| 54 | 🇺🇸 **Uber** (2009 · Uber · Ride-hailing) — One tap and a car comes; you step out without touching your wallet. Two experience details forced every taxi industry on earth to rebuild. | 90 | 84 | 92 | 82 | 76 | 84 | **85** |
| 55 | 🇺🇸 **Chrome** (2008 · Google · Browser) — It arrived a decade late and won 60% share on two things — speed, and one tab crashing without taking the rest down — turning the web into an app platform. | 75 | 91 | 92 | 86 | 79 | 89 | **85** |
| 56 | 🇺🇸 **Amazon Prime** (2005 · Amazon · Subscription) — An annual fee buys freedom from ever thinking about shipping again, so you buy everywhere else never — the profitable membership sells habit, not discounts. | 88 | 82 | 88 | 82 | 87 | 86 | **85** |
| 57 | 🇩🇪 **The mRNA COVID vaccine** (2020 · BioNTech / Pfizer · Vaccine) — From genetic sequence to arms in under a year, it voided the rule that a vaccine takes a decade. | 92 | 86 | 92 | 74 | 82 | 79 | **85** |
| 58 | 🇺🇸 **Pampers** (1961 · P&G · Baby care) — What it freed was not the baby but the mother: two hours of daily nappy-washing deleted from family life. | 90 | 86 | 82 | 79 | 84 | 89 | **85** |
| 59 | 🇺🇸 **The IBM PC** (1981 · IBM · Personal computer) — Off-the-shelf parts and an open architecture bought speed, and created the clone industry that took the market away — the most expensive act of openness in tech. | 90 | 86 | 97 | 69 | 79 | 84 | **85** |
| 60 | 🇺🇸 **Stripe** (2011 · Stripe · Payments) — Seven lines of code to take money from anywhere. Its user was never the merchant but the developer — that shift of perspective was the innovation. | 82 | 79 | 90 | 89 | 86 | 84 | **85** |
| 61 | 🇺🇸 **PayPal** (1999 · PayPal · Payments) — A payment tool that grew as a parasite on eBay and made paying a stranger online workable for the first time. | 88 | 84 | 88 | 76 | 84 | 86 | **85** |

## Notables · 80–84

| # | Product | ORG | SCL | IMP | EXP | BIZ | DUR | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | 🇷🇺 **Tetris** (1984 · Alexey Pajitnov · Game) — Seven shapes, one rule, forty years across every language, age and platform — and for many of those years its author was paid nothing. | 90 | 88 | 88 | 86 | 64 | 86 | **84** |
| 63 | 🇯🇵 **Nintendo Switch** (2017 · Nintendo · Console) — It never raced on specs; it answered one question — what if someone else is using the TV — and sold 150 million units. | 82 | 84 | 82 | 87 | 86 | 82 | **84** |
| 64 | 🇺🇸 **League of Legends** (2009 · Riot Games · Game) — Free to play, skins for sale — it turned a fan-made map into a sport with a world championship. | 80 | 84 | 88 | 82 | 87 | 86 | **84** |
| 65 | 🇯🇵 **Toyota Corolla** (1966 · Toyota · Automobile) — Fifty million sold, the best-selling car ever. Best at nothing in its class, disappointing nobody for sixty years — boring is a very high product achievement. | 70 | 90 | 85 | 82 | 87 | 91 | **84** |
| 66 | 🇺🇸 **Falcon 9** (2010 · SpaceX · Rocket) — The booster flies back and lands on its legs, cutting cost to orbit by an order of magnitude — spaceflight finally got a product concept called reuse. | 97 | 66 | 95 | 79 | 82 | 89 | **84** |
| 67 | 🇺🇸 **Salesforce** (1999 · Salesforce · Enterprise software) — It sold software under a “No Software” banner, moving enterprise IT from discs and consultants to a URL and a monthly fee. | 92 | 76 | 92 | 72 | 87 | 86 | **84** |
| 68 | 🇺🇸 **Figma** (2016 · Figma · Design tool) — It put design in the browser and let many people edit one file at once — design stopped being a job where one person hands over a file. | 85 | 76 | 88 | 89 | 82 | 84 | **84** |
| 69 | 🇺🇸 **Airbnb** (2008 · Airbnb · Travel) — Convincing the world to sleep in a stranger’s home took no technology — it took reviews, insurance, and founders who went door to door taking the photos. | 92 | 79 | 90 | 82 | 79 | 82 | **84** |
| 70 | 🇯🇵 **The QR code** (1994 · Denso Wave · Standard) — A parts label on a Toyota line whose inventor waived the patent fees — so every menu, payment and boarding pass on earth grew into its shape. | 92 | 91 | 92 | 82 | 54 | 89 | **84** |
| 71 | 🇺🇸 **Tide** (1946 · P&G · Household) — The first synthetic detergent, and one of the first products raised by the brand-manager system — the memo in this board’s prologue was written about things like it. | 85 | 86 | 82 | 76 | 84 | 90 | **84** |
| 72 | 🇰🇪 **M-Pesa** (2007 · Safaricom / Vodafone · Mobile money) — Where there were no bank branches and only feature phones, it built a national payment system out of SMS. | 95 | 76 | 90 | 76 | 79 | 86 | **84** |
| 73 | 🇯🇵 **Famicom / NES** (1983 · Nintendo · Console) — After the Atari crash left the industry pronounced dead, strict third-party licensing rebuilt the console into a business. | 92 | 86 | 96 | 83 | 88 | 58 | **84** |
| 74 | 🇺🇸 **iPod** (2001 · Apple · Music player) — “A thousand songs in your pocket” saved Apple, paved the way for the iPhone, and was then killed by it. | 88 | 85 | 92 | 95 | 88 | 55 | **84** |
| 75 | 🇯🇵 **The Sony Walkman** (1979 · Sony · Music player) — Everyone inside objected and the research said no; Morita shipped it anyway. What it invented was not a device but private listening. | 95 | 88 | 93 | 90 | 85 | 50 | **84** |
| 76 | 🇯🇵 **Game Boy** (1989 · Nintendo · Handheld) — A monochrome screen, outdated silicon and thirty hours on four AAs — the most famous win for Yokoi’s “lateral thinking with withered technology”. | 88 | 90 | 90 | 88 | 90 | 55 | **84** |
| 77 | 🇺🇸 **Twitter / X** (2006 · X · Social media) — A 140-character limit meant to fit SMS accidentally built the world’s public square — and the monetization problem it still has not solved. | 90 | 85 | 92 | 78 | 70 | 85 | **84** |
| 78 | 🇺🇸 **Slack** (2013 · Slack / Salesforce · Collaboration) — An internal tool from a failed game studio moved company communication out of email and into channels — and made logging off harder. | 80 | 82 | 85 | 90 | 85 | 85 | **84** |
| 79 | 🇫🇮 **Git** (2005 · Linus Torvalds · Dev tool) — A two-week replacement that became every programmer’s shared language — famously hard to use, and impossible to replace. | 90 | 92 | 94 | 68 | 55 | 95 | **83** |
| 80 | 🇺🇸 **Midjourney** (2022 · Midjourney · AI image) — No website, no app, just commands in Discord — a dozen people to nine figures of revenue, on the most counterintuitive product form of the decade. | 88 | 80 | 85 | 80 | 85 | 78 | **83** |
| 81 | 🇺🇸 **WhatsApp** (2009 · Meta · Messaging) — Fifty-five engineers serving 900 million people, with no ads, no games and no bloat — minimalism’s cleanest victory. | 80 | 88 | 88 | 84 | 67 | 84 | **82** |
| 82 | 🇺🇸 **Barbie** (1959 · Mattel · Toy) — An adult doll with careers in an age of baby dolls: toys gained narrative, and their first lasting controversy. | 88 | 80 | 82 | 74 | 80 | 87 | **82** |
| 83 | 🇺🇸 **Boeing 747** (1970 · Boeing · Airliner) — Four hundred seats at a time made intercontinental travel affordable; the last one was delivered in 2023 and it walked off stage. | 92 | 80 | 92 | 77 | 80 | 67 | **82** |
| 84 | 🇨🇳 **Pinduoduo** (2015 · PDD · E-commerce) — When everyone agreed e-commerce was settled, group-buying converted social ties into traffic and built a third pole in five years. | 82 | 84 | 85 | 74 | 85 | 80 | **82** |
| 85 | 🇬🇧 **The ATM** (1967 · Barclays / De La Rue · Banking hardware) — The first time a bank admitted service need not happen during opening hours — and the start of self-service as a concept. | 88 | 84 | 88 | 74 | 77 | 80 | **82** |
| 86 | 🇺🇸 **Post-it Notes** (1980 · 3M · Office supplies) — A failed adhesive plus a choir-singing engineer produced the least replaceable object in any office — and the textbook case of users knowing the use better than you. | 88 | 82 | 75 | 82 | 77 | 87 | **82** |
| 87 | 🇨🇳 **Toutiao** (2012 · ByteDance · News feed) — It replaced editors with an algorithm in Chinese media first; every underlying capability Douyin later used was trained here. | 88 | 80 | 90 | 74 | 80 | 80 | **82** |
| 88 | 🇯🇵 **The automatic rice cooker** (1955 · Toshiba · Appliance) — A double pan and a thermostat deleted, in one move, the decades of watching a stove that Asian households took for granted. | 88 | 84 | 80 | 77 | 72 | 87 | **82** |
| 89 | ❓ **Bitcoin** (2009 · Satoshi Nakamoto · Cryptocurrency) — The first system to move value with no institution behind it — its creator vanished fifteen years ago and the product still runs. | 97 | 75 | 92 | 57 | 80 | 85 | **82** |
| 90 | 🇨🇳 **Meituan food delivery** (2013 · Meituan · Local services) — The real product is not the app but the dispatch system that reconciles millions of riders, restaurants and diners inside thirty minutes. | 78 | 84 | 85 | 80 | 80 | 82 | **81** |
| 91 | 🇨🇳 **Honor of Kings** (2015 · Tencent · Mobile game) — It squeezed a 40-minute MOBA into 15 and put every skill under a thumb — becoming the highest-grossing mobile game on earth. | 72 | 82 | 82 | 80 | 88 | 82 | **81** |
| 92 | 🇺🇸 **Kindle** (2007 · Amazon · E-reader) — E-ink plus any book in sixty seconds — Amazon cannibalized its own paper business, and that resolve was worth more than the hardware. | 88 | 74 | 85 | 80 | 77 | 80 | **81** |
| 93 | 🇨🇦 **Shopify** (2006 · Shopify · Commerce platform) — Not a marketplace but a toolkit, letting anyone run their own store — the opposite of Amazon, and the only opposite that held. | 80 | 77 | 88 | 80 | 82 | 82 | **81** |
| 94 | 🇺🇸 **Zoom** (2013 · Zoom · Video meetings) — Video calls existed; it got one thing right — click a link and you are in, no install, no login, no stutter. In 2020 the world lived on that one thing. | 72 | 84 | 88 | 84 | 80 | 80 | **81** |
| 95 | 🇺🇸 **eBay** (1995 · eBay · Marketplace) — The first proof that strangers could trade online; the feedback score is the legacy it left the entire internet. | 90 | 77 | 88 | 67 | 80 | 80 | **81** |
| 96 | 🇨🇳 **Xiaomi smartphones** (2011 · Xiaomi · Smartphone) — Weekly OS updates and features voted on by users ran a phone like an internet product — the word “participation” in Chinese product circles comes from here. | 78 | 82 | 85 | 77 | 80 | 82 | **81** |
| 97 | 🇨🇳 **BYD DM-i** (2021 · BYD · Hybrid system) — It talked only about fuel cost and price until a plug-in hybrid undercut the petrol car beside it — the inflection point of China’s car market. | 80 | 80 | 88 | 77 | 82 | 80 | **81** |
| 98 | 🇺🇸 **GitHub Copilot** (2021 · GitHub / OpenAI · Dev tool) — The first AI product millions of professionals used daily — proof that AI need not replace you, autocomplete alone is worth paying for. [→](https://doaipm.com/en/blog/copilot-already-cut-the-cord/) | 90 | 77 | 90 | 77 | 77 | 72 | **81** |
| 99 | 🇨🇳 **DeepSeek-R1** (2025 · DeepSeek · Foundation model) — A competitive reasoning model trained for a fraction of the going cost and released open — it tore a hole in the consensus that only giants can play. | 85 | 82 | 88 | 80 | 70 | 72 | **80** |

## No. 100 · Seat reserved

Only 99 seats are filled. The hundredth is reserved for something that does not exist yet — in the AI era, whoever can say clearly what they want can build it, so it may well be the thing you are working on.

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We judge products, not companies or founders; every entry rests on public facts. All attribute scores and the ordering are generated by Claude (AI) and represent no individual’s stance. The board keeps updating as the series runs.