AI Product Graveyard

snoren

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

fred_is_fred

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.

MichaelNolan

List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.

ulfw

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

dgellow

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

gfat

Diagram was acquired by Figma

ramon156

> 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

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.

Topfi

> 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

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

cuuupid

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

d-lowl

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

rpastuszak

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.

dsabanin

Counting 38 acquired companies as dead is misleading the reader.

zkid18

the whole database is an AI slop tbh

colesantiago

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

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.

smusamashah

Missing phind search engine. Was dev focused search engine

nnnnico

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

dainiusse

Is this recursive?:)