AI Product Graveyard

by StriverGuy • 3 months ago

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snoren• 3 months ago

Oh man, lots of dead ideas. Atm attention is more important than ever, cos delivering on ideas got easier. Getting the attention your product needs got harder

NewLogic• 3 months ago

Did delivering quality really get easier? I'm certainly not seeing it in the software I use. Delivering scale doesn't mean the mission was executed well.

axegon_2• 3 months ago

Judging from everyone I know, it will take people a lot of time to learn and accept a lesson from decades ago(one from before some of us were even born and I'm in my mid 30's): lines of code is a shit metric. Sloppers tend to believe that something seemingly working = production ready = good execution. And the metric, of course, is lines of code or "tokens". Until then, the list on this website will keep growing exponentially.

bcjdjsndon• 3 months ago

A lot of these are just sticking a ui in front of someone else's AI and silently feeding it extra prompts.

This adds a tiny amount of value, sure, but enough to gamble millions on? Obviously not.

No wonder they failed

renegade-otter2• 3 months ago

Just like how more RAM and compute in the cloud made us worse engineers (no need to turn your brain on to tune performance).

When the brain is off for one thing, it's off for the rest as well. There is a lot of talk about "we don't have to think about code so we can think of ideas", but that's not how it works. We just don't think.

tencentshill• 3 months ago

They should put microphones in the cloud servers so you can hear the fans spin up when you run a program. It's a bit more impactful than a silent CPU usage graph.

fred_is_fred• 3 months ago

1/3 of these were acquired so far. I think what would be interesting is a label that showed whether anyone made money before it shutdown.

nkmnz• 3 months ago

Some of the acquired didn't even shut down. https://wandb.ai/site seems to be up and running.

dgellow2• 3 months ago

Yeah weight and biases is definitely still active

renegade-otter2• 3 months ago

This site may join its own list.

MichaelNolan• 3 months ago

List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.

ulfw• 3 months ago

Same as crypto/blockchain five years ago. Exactly the same.

gwbas1c• 3 months ago

Reminds me of fuckedcompany.com during the internet / web bubble in 2000 and the early 2000s.

f055• 3 months ago

Seems like every bubble has the same thing going on. I guess during tulip mania everyone was a florist.

rconti• 3 months ago

Came here for this, wasn't disappointed.

dgellow2• 3 months ago

„Bing AI: acquired“ I don’t trust that dataset…

gfat• 3 months ago

Diagram was acquired by Figma

21asdffdsa12• 3 months ago

Its a miracle that company has a german offering..

ramon156• 3 months ago

Bit.ai
https://bit.ai/updates

seems up? then again, i do not know anything about the tool. maybe the marketing site is up, but the tool isn't?

abraxas• 3 months ago

Streamlit seems very much alive. I used it on and off in the past. Went to their website and it looks very much alive.

Ditto for Weights and Biases.

epistasis2• 3 months ago

They are in the "Year unknown (12)" category but that's a weird thing to include.

Plus they aren't even AI products, but either have vigorous pre-AI use (W&B) or are completely non-AI but just used by lots of prototypes (streamlit)

Legend2440• 3 months ago

Weights and Biases is a tool for monitoring AI training runs.

I don't see how you can say it has "pre-AI use" unless you are narrowly defining AI to be LLMs.

egeres• 3 months ago

Yes, it's active and even had a new release last week

DetroitThrow4• 3 months ago

it's because this is just unverified slop that i doubt was thrown together by a human. Langfuse has ongoing conferences and is still used by many frameworks.

Topfi• 3 months ago

Bing AI - Acquired by Microsoft.
Microsoft's Bing search engine with AI-enhanced features The product has since been folded into Microsoft; visitors to the original URL are now redirected to copilot.microsoft.com.

What? Besides the fact that Bing was always a MSFT product, the LLM assisted search feature on Bing is still separate [0] from copilot.microsoft.com. At most it was a rename, though Copilot on the MSFT side is different from the one on Bing, is different from the one relying on your local TPU, is different from the one on Github... Great branding.

Even if the content was unreviewed LLM slop, I'd be hard pressed to find a model that outputs that Bing was bought by MSFT when at no point were the two separate.

Also, missing some of the greatest failures like Bard, Dia Browser, Sora, etc.

[0] https://www.bing.com/copilotsearch

frozenseven• 3 months ago

An (almost) alphabetical list that ends at M? Hmm...

add-sub-mul-div• 3 months ago

It's metaslop.

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DetroitThrow4• 3 months ago

Wish there was some better self moderation capability to ban sites or users that just post nonsensical slop.

cuuupid• 3 months ago

Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the company

mcphage• 3 months ago

When a company is acquired, sometimes the company's products get a new lease on life, and sometimes the company's products are killed, or allowed to die.

zombot• 3 months ago

Acquired is such a euphemism for died which is usually mourned by users.

DetroitThrow4• 3 months ago

Some of these acquired products aren't dead or even in maintenance mode though, they're still running. So it doesn't really make sense to include them in a graveyard, among the other very much alive projects like Streamlit and LangFuse, or missing dead projects like Sora.

This is just slop. I wouldn't give this too much attention.

palmotea• 3 months ago

Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the company

Correction: for the investors.

d-lowl• 3 months ago

Langfuse, W&B, streamlit and reclaim are far from dead. This list doesn't make much sense

DetroitThrow4• 3 months ago

It's missing some of the most famous AI products that have been turned off too. Horrible list.

ttul• 3 months ago

Yes, I just booked a meeting using Reclaim. And, is it really “AI”? It’s a rules-based scheduling app.

Jolter• 3 months ago

Presumably someone claimed it as ”AI” by listing it on the registry.

oneeyedpigeon• 3 months ago

Are we talking about the app at reclaim.ai ? It calls itself the "#1 AI calendar app for work." Like many of these tools, it may be AI in hype only, but I'm not sure exactly where we'd draw the line otherwise.

xnx• 3 months ago

"AI" is right in the name

rsstack• 3 months ago

It's counting acquisitions as "death". Not a useful list as is.

punk_ihaq• 3 months ago

As of two months ago, Streamlit has 1M+ MAD. It's still growing.

wrenchbender• 3 months ago

There's several listed as "domain lapsed" when really they've been acquired. CentML for example is listed as "domain lapsed" when it was acquired by Nvidia back in June.

rpastuszak2• 3 months ago

Just came here to say that https://meat-gpt.sonnet.io/ is still up and running, largely thanks to the hundreds of LLM based bots hallucinating product reviews for it.

I also, thanks to meat gpt, met a guy who sold his startup and pivoted to making beef jerky which sometimes he sells from under his coat pretending it’s drugs.

MeatGPT might’ve lost a competition to a site with perfectly rendered 3d sandwiches, but I’m not bitter, I’m umami.

ftkftk• 3 months ago

Well this certainly made my morning more entertaining. Thank you!

rpastuszak2• 3 months ago

Hehe, that was quick, thanks!

dsabanin• 3 months ago

Counting 38 acquired companies as dead is misleading the reader.

zkid18• 3 months ago

the whole database is an AI slop tbh

RedMustard• 3 months ago

I wonder when it will add itself to the list

colesantiago• 3 months ago

We will be seeing more on this list and others very soon.

Most of these AI wrappers shouldn't be businesses and most of them are scams.

When OpenAI and Anthropic's TAM is any software business or anything that runs on a digital screen, the margins for every software business trends to 0.

rideontime• 3 months ago

Please stop posting this.

e: Apologies, I had this confused for the other "dead tech projects" website posted recently that was similarly full of false information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945955

To rephrase it: Please stop posting slop websites full of incorrect information.

gdulli• 3 months ago

It's like an invention that allowed anyone anywhere to sell chicken mcnuggets with no startup costs. Too many people love it, try stopping it. We automated listicles etc. and now we're going to be drowning in them.

smusamashah• 3 months ago

Missing phind search engine. Was dev focused search engine

nnnnico• 3 months ago

This is just slop, it's baffling that it reaches the top

seizethecheese2• 3 months ago

Do you ever upvote links? Upon reflection I realize that I hardly ever do. Perhaps thoughtful participants could redouble our efforts in this regard.

dainiusse• 3 months ago

Is this recursive?:)

emil-lp• 3 months ago

If not, it needs to be included in the list of things that don't include itself.

zamadatix• 3 months ago

What made Google Graveyard interesting was they were often successful or extremely popular products (and the list was well done).

Since then people have been posting Graveyards to show most businesses and products are never successful in the first place , but with a category filter to make it appear unique.

phpnode• 3 months ago

and then people get bored and stop updating them, soon we'll need a graveyard-graveyard to showcase all the failed graveyard projects.

6DM• 3 months ago

Just thinking about how this could be useful and it could serve as an interesting counter example. So if you have an idea and you find it on this graveyard, it's probably something not to do or it might be worth thinking on a little longer before proceeding.

jchallis• 3 months ago

Working on a streamlit app this second... I think its death has been exaggerated.

wolttam• 3 months ago

Some of these were acquisitions, e.g. CentML by Nvidia. Not sure if that's graveyard material

intrasight• 3 months ago

It depends. If it was an acquihire and the product no longer exists, then it's a graveyard entry.

winddude• 3 months ago

The fact that some of the domains lapsed is wild, bit.ai has got to worth a bit. But I also checked a handful of the lapsed domains, they aren't lapsed, eg airfront.ai is still active

ssgodderidge• 3 months ago

I recently tried to sign up for a new domain with a .ai namespace. I tried around 50 names. All of them were not only taken, but seemingly have a landing page with varying degrees of functionality described.

Try it - type a word into your browser with .ai and you’ll see

jtbayly• 3 months ago

graveyard.ai is still open.

cactacea• 3 months ago

not anymore!

ambicapter3• 3 months ago

sports.ai is returning a 403 unfortunately.

kvam• 3 months ago

Riff is Databutton. They rebranded.

justinhj• 3 months ago

I am seeing an increase in stories upvoted here that contain multiple obvious errors or lack of basic fact checking. AI to blame or we are all vote happy for stories that float our boat in some way?

seizethecheese2• 3 months ago

Probably both, but HN has been floated its own boat since well before AI, so that one is for certain.

Kuinox• 3 months ago

2 of the first 4 "website is not responding", are actually responding...

ms7m• 3 months ago

Domain unreachable being marked as 'dead' just makes this whole list kinda not helpful?

Just the first item I can see https://tooldirectory.ai/tools/letterdrop-ai-content-creatio... but the site just looks fine? https://letterdrop.com/

Maybe some of these are not really dead but thriving enough they are able to get a proper .com domain :^)

Tokiin• 3 months ago

Really wish there was a link to the site they tried for every "dead" site, if only to see the goodbye notice that pages put up. Sites like "Our Incredible Journey" [1] really highlight just what happens to so many of these companies, but an unreachable domain is definitely not a main criteria to base a graveyard off of.

[1] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

fud101• 3 months ago

Never heard of most of these. What a waste of a click.

gitowiec• 3 months ago

A lot of garbage, people think to hard to come up with any idea.

0xintelligence• 3 months ago

It's a bit clickbaity.

asaiacai• 3 months ago

this list has a lot of false positives.

simonerlic• 3 months ago

A lot of these were just company projects on their own subdomain being folded into the main company. I don't know if I'd consider that "dead" or "acquired", just restructured?

mathgladiator• 3 months ago

Im shutting down my product without shipping due to liability and way too wild product unreliability (expecting AI to make a call reliability is no good). I basically vibed up a personal medical record, so I may open source it at some point.

shantnutiwari• 3 months ago

yeah, like many comments have said, aquired is not the same as dead.

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