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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Weights & Biases goes way back to 2017, before deep learning was called "AI". It's used for all sorts of non-AI ML too. It may be used for lots of AI but it sees a ton of non-AI use too. It's definitely not my thing (I prefer MLFlow) but lots of people love it.
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.
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
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.
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.
> I always suspect there's redundant nonsense in any code module I haven't myself inspected.
I don't think this is arrogance in the sense that it's probably correct. It is however pretty easy to take that line of thinking into an arrogant attitude though, which is the real issue.
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.
I once worked at a fairly large corp that considered itself tech-forward (it was a retail ecommerce company), and at one point they just decided to demote all engineers one level because they somehow finally realized that everyone they had been calling "Senior" were definitely not at that level.
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.
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.
> 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Im shutting down my product without shipping due to liability and way too wild product unreliability (expecting AI to make a call reliability is no good). I basically vibed up a personal medical record, so I may open source it at some point.
A lot of these were just company projects on their own subdomain being folded into the main company. I don't know if I'd consider that "dead" or "acquired", just restructured?
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?
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
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.
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?
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.