AI Product Graveyard

106•StriverGuy•1h ago

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snoren•1h 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•1h 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_•1h 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•48m 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.

axegon_•34m ago

Seniors are no different and that infuriates me even more. The few times I felt lazy and let an AI do a simple function for me, all hell broke loose. I'm starting to think that many people were never that senior to begin with: Writing the code accounts for very little of what development requires and is often the easy part. Understanding the problem and finding the sweet spot/optimal compromise, edge cases and how you can break it is what has always been difficult. Seeing github explode with slop and github(microsoft/openai) themselves push even harder should be a wake up call for anyone that understands what development is: not writing the code but having someone else go through it, analyze it, understand the problem you are trying to solve and why you made the decisions that you made - that pretty much always takes a lot more time than writing the actual code. And then I see someone push 20 commits in a day, each being 5000 lines, jam packed with emojis and other slop and tell me that they carefully reviewed all of them? Yeah, that's bullshit, mate.

bcjdjsndon•1h 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-otter•59m 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•50m 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•28m ago

Just use RPM sensors and room temperature?

fred_is_fred•1h 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•1h ago

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

dgellow•1h ago

Yeah weight and biases is definitely still active

renegade-otter•58m ago

This site may join its own list.

MichaelNolan•1h ago

List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.

ulfw•1h ago

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

gwbas1c•1h ago

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

f055•47m ago

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

dgellow•1h ago

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

gfat•1h ago

Diagram was acquired by Figma

ramon156•58m 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•56m 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•50m 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)

egeres•36m ago

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

DetroitThrow•33m 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•49m 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•48m ago

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

add-sub-mul-div•44m ago

It's metaslop.

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DetroitThrow•20m ago

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

cuuupid•46m ago

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

mcphage•43m 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•42m ago

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

DetroitThrow•25m 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.

d-lowl•43m ago

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

DetroitThrow•29m ago

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

ttul•17m ago

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

rpastuszak•42m 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•39m ago

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

rpastuszak•36m ago

Hehe, that was quick, thanks!

dsabanin•36m ago

Counting 38 acquired companies as dead is misleading the reader.

zkid18•27m ago

the whole database is an AI slop tbh

colesantiago•26m 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•19m 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•11m 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•12m ago

Missing phind search engine. Was dev focused search engine

nnnnico•6m ago

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

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