Pedigree Wants to Put Names Back on the Products We Use

Why it surfaced

The project frames itself as “Google Scholar for product builders,” using examples such as Paul Buchheit’s first version of Gmail, Susan Kare’s Macintosh icons and typeface, and Alec Radford’s work on GPT-1. Its argument is simple and unusually humane: builders deserve credit, and knowing who made something helps us find the people behind good work.

Pedigree traces influential products and features back to the people who imagined, designed, researched, and shipped them.