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Langfuse, W&B, streamlit and reclaim are far from dead. This list doesn't make much sense
Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the company
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.
List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.
2 of the first 4 "website is not responding", are actually responding...
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
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
Riff is Databutton. They rebranded.
> Bit.ai
seems up? then again, i do not know anything about the tool. maybe the marketing site is up, but the tool isn't?
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
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.
> 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.
Some of these were acquisitions, e.g. CentML by Nvidia. Not sure if that's graveyard material
Missing phind search engine. Was dev focused search engine
Counting 38 acquired companies as dead is misleading the reader.
Working on a streamlit app this second... I think its death has been exaggerated.
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?
„Bing AI: acquired“ I don’t trust that dataset…
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.
This is just slop, it's baffling that it reaches the top
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.
the whole database is an AI slop tbh
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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.
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.