AI Product Graveyard

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zamadatix•about 3 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

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

d-lowl•about 3 hours ago

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

rsstack•about 3 hours ago

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

ttul•about 3 hours ago

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

oneeyedpigeon•about 1 hour 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.

Jolter•about 2 hours ago

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

wrenchbender•about 2 hours 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.

punk_ihaq•about 2 hours ago

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

DetroitThrow•about 3 hours ago

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

ms7m•about 1 hour 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•23 minutes 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/

cuuupid•about 3 hours ago

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

mcphage•about 3 hours 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•about 3 hours ago

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

DetroitThrow•about 3 hours 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.

abraxas•about 4 hours 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.

epistasis•about 3 hours 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•5 minutes 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•about 3 hours ago

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

DetroitThrow•about 3 hours 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.

MichaelNolan•about 4 hours ago

List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.

ramon156•about 4 hours 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?

snoren•about 4 hours 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

bcjdjsndon•about 4 hours 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

NewLogic•about 4 hours 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_•about 4 hours 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.

gavmor•about 3 hours ago

Does it seem like even senior developers are forgetting this axiom? Or do we feel as though it's been obviated by LLM grokking swaths of text for us?

TBH I'm so arrogant, I always suspect there's redundant nonsense in any code module I haven't myself inspected. LLM code is no different.

renegade-otter•about 4 hours 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•about 3 hours 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.

wiseowise•about 3 hours ago

Just use RPM sensors and room temperature?

deferredgrant•about 1 hour ago

New capability creates a lot of experiments, and most experiments fail.

ssgodderidge•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

graveyard.ai is still open.

cactacea•about 1 hour ago

not anymore!

ambicapter•about 2 hours ago

sports.ai is returning a 403 unfortunately.

Topfi•about 3 hours 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

rideontime•about 3 hours 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•about 3 hours 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.

winddude•about 2 hours 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

Kuinox•about 1 hour ago

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

smusamashah•about 3 hours ago

Missing phind search engine. Was dev focused search engine

dsabanin•about 3 hours ago

Counting 38 acquired companies as dead is misleading the reader.

wolttam•about 2 hours ago

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

intrasight•about 2 hours ago

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

jchallis•about 2 hours ago

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

kvam•about 1 hour ago

Riff is Databutton. They rebranded.

ulfw•about 4 hours ago

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

gwbas1c•about 4 hours ago

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

f055•about 3 hours ago

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

rconti•about 2 hours ago

Came here for this, wasn't disappointed.

dgellow•about 4 hours ago

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

rpastuszak•about 3 hours 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•about 3 hours ago

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

rpastuszak•about 3 hours ago

Hehe, that was quick, thanks!

dainiusse•about 3 hours ago

Is this recursive?:)

emil-lp•about 2 hours ago

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

nnnnico•about 3 hours ago

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

seizethecheese•about 1 hour 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.

justinhj•about 1 hour 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?

seizethecheese•about 1 hour ago

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

gfat•about 4 hours ago

Diagram was acquired by Figma

21asdffdsa12•about 2 hours ago

Its a miracle that company has a german offering..

colesantiago•about 3 hours 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.

frozenseven•about 3 hours ago

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

add-sub-mul-div•about 3 hours ago

It's metaslop.

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DetroitThrow•about 3 hours ago

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

properbrew•about 2 hours ago

What I don't understand is how half the comments are calling out how bad the content is, yet it's somehow 4th on the frontpage?

It looks like generic AI slop, the site doesn't even render the headings for their SEO spam "Curated AI Tool Collections by Use Case" section properly and they're half cut off. The images all have the very distinct generic AI hue to them without any attempt of bringing it into a specific style or brand.

Who is upvoting this stuff? Do people not care? Is it just bots gaming the system? Am I an old man shouting at a cloud?

zkid18•about 3 hours ago

the whole database is an AI slop tbh

fred_is_fred•about 4 hours 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•about 4 hours ago

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

renegade-otter•about 4 hours ago

This site may join its own list.

dgellow•about 4 hours ago

Yeah weight and biases is definitely still active