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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.
by colesantiago - 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.
by rideontime - 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.by gdulli
- Same as crypto/blockchain five years ago. Exactly the same.by ulfw
- Reminds me of fuckedcompany.com during the internet / web bubble in 2000 and the early 2000s.by gwbas1c
- > 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.
by Topfi - 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 harderby snoren
- 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.
- 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.by NewLogic
- 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
by bcjdjsndon - > 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?
by ramon156 - List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.by MichaelNolan
- 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.
by abraxas - 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.by DetroitThrow
- Yes, it's active and even had a new release last weekby egeres
- 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)
by epistasis - 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 :^)
by ms7m - 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.by Tokiin
- Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the companyby cuuupid
- Acquired is such a euphemism for died which is usually mourned by users.by zombot
- > Died is such a charged word for acquired which is usually celebrated for the company
Correction: for the investors.
by palmotea - 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.by mcphage
- Langfuse, W&B, streamlit and reclaim are far from dead. This list doesn't make much senseby d-lowl
- As of two months ago, Streamlit has 1M+ MAD. It's still growing.by punk_ihaq
- It's missing some of the most famous AI products that have been turned off too. Horrible list.by DetroitThrow
- 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.by wrenchbender
- Yes, I just booked a meeting using Reclaim. And, is it really “AI”? It’s a rules-based scheduling app.by ttul
- It's counting acquisitions as "death". Not a useful list as is.by rsstack
- 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.
by zamadatix - 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.by 6DM