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AI App Graveyard
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- ArcaneMoose 3y agoAfter today's announcement, this list is about to get a whole lot bigger!!
- altbdoor 3y agoSorry, could you elaborate? Was it the annoucement from OpenAI?
- parentheses 3y agoYes. He's referring to OpenAI releasing custom GPTs. They're clearly starting to move up the stack.
- altbdoor 3y agoI see, thanks! Just gonna link it here for brevity. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts
- red-iron-pine 3y agowhy is the tech advisor a capybara?
- j45 3y agoSeems like broadening their reach to non developers that they were clear about. Natural language is a new programming language so anyone who can explain what they’re after well enough will eventually be able to get more of what they want.
- ShamelessC 3y agoSite is timing out unfortunately. HN hug? Unrelated but this sort of thing really shines a light on just how few people click a link before upvoting based purely on the headline.
- bealuga 3y agoMaybe, it was quite slow when I went to it prior to me posting it
- promiseofbeans 3y agoThe HN hug of death
- viraptor 3y agoYou can still read it on https://web.archive.org/web/20231107035016/https://dang.ai/ai-graveyard https://web.archive.org/web/20231107035016/https://dang.ai/a...
- readyplayernull 3y agoNeeva is in there lol https://dang.ai/tool/ai-search-engine-neeva https://dang.ai/tool/ai-search-engine-neeva
- websap 3y agoThis is sad. As technologists we should celebrate folks who tried to build new services and applications. It would be good to document these and explain why they didn't work.
- travisgriggs 3y agoAgree to disagree? This is a satire of how our current incentive system disproportionately allocates resources in a fad fashion, not unlike how the waves sloshed around the fish tank you tried to deliver to your girlfriend, only to discover 2/3s of the water was spilled all over the back seat and the fish with PTSD are now staring askance at you. If this were a post titled "Open Source Operating Systems Graveyard" or some such, where it was demonstrable that the pursuits were those primarily of creativity, rather than something closer akin to carpetbagging, then I might agree with your expressed regret.
- sasaf5 3y ago> not unlike how the waves sloshed around the fish tank you tried to deliver to your girlfriend, only to discover 2/3s of the water was spilled all over the back seat and the fish with PTSD are now staring askance at you Is this comparison out of creativity or experience? :)
- lelanthran 3y ago>not unlike how the waves sloshed around the fish tank you tried to deliver to your girlfriend, only to discover 2/3s of the water was spilled all over the back seat and the fish with PTSD are now staring askance at you Oddly specific ...
- BigJono 3y agoHow many of these startups are building new models, datasets and algorithms? Or are they all just prefixing a few lines to a prompt before passing it on to a 3rd party API? If these companies actually had something worth celebrating, would they really be out of the game this early? Most dead AI companies right now are muppets that built the quickest, shittiest thing they could to try and be the first in the door in a hype cycle.
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- babl-yc 3y agoThere are a ton of companies that are basically a wrapper around GPT-4 with some minimal amount of application code. These folks can create impressive demos that wow minimally informed investors, but the reality is that if it took a few weeks to make there's no defensibility. I see the profits in the current AI hype cycle going to the leading foundational model company (why pay for the 2nd best?) and the companies that already own customer relationships and integrate AI into their existing products (Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, etc).
- SomethingNew2 3y agoThat’s a compelling story. But that doesn’t make it accurate. We are early on and it’s hard to determine how large or small the ecosystem and value that will be created on top. Some went big, like personal computers, the internet, databases, Java, electricity, and so on. Others did not (yet), web3 (maybe), other databases, low code platform, website builders, workstations, many old personal computing systems, etc. Yes, it’s easier for incumbents to capture value because they own customer relationships. However, if that was always the case open ai wouldn’t exist. So some do breakthrough. Early on could people see the future and know what Ms dos, Oracle, or google would become? No because it’s new and it’s the future. It’s only obvious in hindsight. Yes, all of these ai companies on top of chatgpt could become nothing. On the flip side the complexity and depth of chat gpt and other models will continue to expand, creating more possibilities for potential value creation. Or the whole thing can turn into an overvalued version of Clippy. It’s hard to see how it will play out.
- yieldcrv 3y agoI used to think I wouldn’t rationalize a losing position while I was invested, but after a hedge fund I was in divested from a large position, I was able to see the other way so clearly
- danielmarkbruce 3y agoThis is quite funny. If it weren't for tax (and maybe liquidity in certain situations), this suggests a quarterly "sell everything" day might make sense. You'd sell everything on a friday perhaps, and come monday buy again after having the weekend to freshen your eyes.
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- travisgriggs 3y agoSite appears to be toast. Belongs in the ought to exist site titled "Hackernews Hug of Death Scrapyard".
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- ChrisArchitect 3y agolol Hope this site was around for Halloween at least
- j45 3y agoMan, cloudflare is like a few minutes. Maybe their domain registrar features need to be better known.
- viraptor 3y agoMany other CDNs are also just few minutes. Or S3+cloudfront (if you've ever done it once before). Or github pages. I agree with the direction, but wanted to give some ideas different than CF.
- j45 3y agoGreat point about other CDNs. Just was thinking of a point and click one for the most part.
- smokel 3y agoNo, it is not. For a hobbyist it is overkill, for a professional it might require filling out some TPS reports.
- j45 3y agoI dunno. The free cloudflare is such low hanging fruit to make any shared vps Wordpress hosting much better for next to nothing. Could just be me.
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- overtomanu 3y agoWeb page archive 7th nov 2023: https://archive.is/fqnz3 https://archive.is/fqnz3
- joshxyz 3y agothis is like a museum of sam altman's KDA in this industry.
- fsckboy 3y agodo you mean that altman's companies have killed these companies, or just his association to these companies?
- bealuga 3y agotwitter for a scroll through on video if you can't access: https://twitter.com/coderbea/status/1721748059145880024 https://twitter.com/coderbea/status/1721748059145880024
- stanislavb 3y agoAs they say - this escalated quickly.
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- Bjartr 3y ago90% of startups fail in the first year, I wouldn't expect AI startups to be an exception.
- erickhill 3y agoURL literally made me lol
- methuselah_in 3y agothis link does nothing? 505 gateway timed out.
- mrtksn 3y agoI don’t know about that, since when it’s needed to be the hard-core tech supplier to succeed with customers? The ones that will die will die regardless if openAI introduce the feature. Just because OpenAI provided a method to do something doesn’t mean that they provided the best user experience. IMHO there would be another land grab where the customers wouldn’t care if something is run by OpenAI and if they could have done the same through the ChatGPT. Those who actually created a product that customers are willing to pay might actually end up just switching LLM suppliers.
- HeartStrings 3y agoWrappers gotta go
- elromulous 3y agoI typically scan the domain before even reading the title. Turns out this is not some AI effort by @dang!
- simondotau 3y ago@dang is an AI, confirmed
- hubraumhugo 3y agoYou could probalby build a dot com bubble graveyard, an app store graveyard, and a web3 graveyard. Hype cycles all look the same and only very few winners come out of it.
- b1n 3y agoThese companies are not designed to last forever. Many wrappers can make decent amounts of money for their creators for months and then die. Under these conditions a company can close down and still be considered a big success.
- loopdoend 3y agoDot com bubble was done - a very entertaining site at the time started by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
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- Temporary_31337 3y agoYou can add dang.ai to the list ;) I get 504.
- larodi 3y agoAm I missing here, or this site lists GPT4ALL as dead/discontinued while GPT4ALL's website seems to have the project alive and well on all levels?
- tommis 3y ago"You are building a feature not a product" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKHnsvquP8&list=LL&index=6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKHnsvquP8&list=LL&index=6 https://farez.medium.com/the-danger-of-building-a-business-around-a-feature-dd5e2a2a40ab https://farez.medium.com/the-danger-of-building-a-business-a...
- tacone 3y agoTime to create an awesome list of graveyards.
- benterix 3y agoIt seems someone just automatically scraped all chatgpt-related apps. For example GPT4All is also there, which is very much alive and kicking: https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all.
- rpastuszak 3y agoLuckily, my MeatGPT is immune to this.