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ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
- Edymilson 2mo ago[dead]
- i1856511 2mo agoAnd all this time I had been calling them, "Elven Labs" in my head.
- aghilmort 2mo agogotta wonder if any inspired by Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's 12, Ocean's 13
- throwup238 2mo agoI think the inspiration was the Arabic numerals.
- DiscourseFan 2mo agoNo it was the word eleven and the word labs.
- WhatsName 2mo agoTried to register sixsevenlabs, too late unfortunately...
- possibilistic 2mo agoAll of them copied 15.ai ElevenLabs was a commercial version of 15.ai. It's crazy, because 15.ai could have had the venture-scale outcomes if he'd fundraised and turned it into a SaaS product. He was in the right place, right time, with tremendous attention, but missed the opportunity. The other "labs" followed the trend. The {number}labs / {number}.ai domains all quickly got squatted. I was in the same space and watched it happening. I launched FakeYou about the same time as 15.ai, but 15 had the backing of 4chan and a better model. I still made it to 7M MAU and a million in revenue despite that. Just last year, Fish Audio picked up where 15.ai / FakeYou / UberDuck / Weights.gg left off and made it to $20M ARR, which is a lesson about abandoning under-served markets when you still have tremendous gravity.
- itsthecourier 2mo agodamn, what a rollercoaster you had there, man
- idontneedcoffee 2mo agoThis world of cheap (vc) money, huge private equity sells and high revenue early in the products development phase is so distant to me(geographically and even more so, mentally), I need some help deciding what to do with my project and I'd really appreciate if you could DM me
- quantumwoke 2mo agoYou were a year behind 15.ai with FakeYou. I know, because I was six months ahead of you and didn't execute in time. Momentum is everything.
- possibilistic 2mo agoI wasn't after them, I just changed my product's name. They had monumentally better distribution. I launched as vo.codes (and two prior names) before 2020 and later rebranded to FakeYou. https://thenextweb.com/news/celebrity-voices-deepfake-ai-app https://thenextweb.com/news/celebrity-voices-deepfake-ai-app Rebranding a domain with traction is a mistake, in retrospect. I think Magnific is learning this lesson now after undergoing a change from the popular FreePik. I'm a filmmaker and I wanted to get into video models, and FakeYou felt more like a pivot to UGC video (vo.codes was too audio centric) that I could ultimately swing me into cinematic video. I was too slow and that was not a good choice. But Higgsfield and Bytedance showed you can be late and still win a lionshare of the market. My video product launched in February and is at $5M ARR / 67% MoM growth.
- quantumwoke 2mo agoI was six months ahead of vo.codes, well aware. Anyway, UGC was a good pivot and wish you all the best.
- narrationbox 2mo ago
- darkwater 2mo agoSixSevenLabs btw seems really cringe, see https://www.67lab.ai/catalog/clawnexus https://www.67lab.ai/catalog/clawnexus
- nostratas 2mo agoThere's always some kind of popular dumb naming scheme. I remember when it was prefixing "Zen-" to your startup. Some things never change
- newsomix9xl 2mo agoZen-Eleven labs.
- pmg101 2mo agoRemembr when it was missng lettrs out of wrds
- egypturnash 2mo agomiss.ng lett.rs
- NooneAtAll3 2mo agodot com?
- 65 2mo agoMid 2000s I remember the -ify and -ly startups.
- kennywinker 2mo agoWhat I’m seeing is there are 29 available startup names just waiting…
- tcherasaro 2mo agoYeah! 50 labs is still available. I know what I’m getting myself for my 50th birthday!
- bee_rider 2mo agoAfter that we’ll have to expand to 3 digits, which will open the possibility of naming your company after hip area codes.
- codethief 2mo agoOr street numbers? https://www.456bereastreet.com/ https://www.456bereastreet.com/ used to be a classic.
- Evidlo 2mo agokennywinkerlabs
- kennywinker 2mo agoK9rLabs
- zahrevsky 2mo agoFinally, a periodic table of labs
- 01284a7e 2mo agoHitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs? Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the exercise video. Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs. Ted: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going. Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man? Ted: I would go for the 7. Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk. Ted: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that? Hitchhiker: If you're not happy with the first 7 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B". Ted: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you're in trouble, huh? [Hitchhiker convulses] Hitchhiker: No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel. Ted: That - good point. Hitchhiker: 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office. Ted: Why? Hitchhiker: 'Cause you're fuckin' fired!
- asveikau 2mo agoI was trying to remember the actor/comedian who delivered this pitch. It was Harland Williams. I most remember him as the Pennsylvania state trooper from Dumb & Dumber.
- NooneAtAll3 2mo agowhy did he fire the guy who now obviously will go and make the 6-minute abs he proposed?
- tosh 2mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2di69FmhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2di69FmhE from There's Something About Mary
- zuuna 2mo agobuying up all domains right now, thanks for making me rich
- waked 2mo agoI did myself try a few increments above 11 once, but this takes it to the next level. Quality stuff.
- fwlr 2mo agoI see someone is implementing FizzBuzz in “startup funding rounds”.
- dainiusse 2mo agoThree score and ten labs
- dylan604 2mo agoThree score and seven labs /s
- chvid 2mo agoAll those cool domain names are gone now - the power of the hn frontpage!
- Barbing 2mo agoHugged I think, no archives (org/today).
- marssaxman 2mo agoI used to work for a startup called 1026 Labs!
- rgovostes 2mo agoAmazon's hardware development subsidiary in Sunnyvale, California is Lab126. (Hi Mars!)
- ninju 2mo agoHN Hug of death
- blueshoe 2mo agoIronically (or maybe unironically?) I just started working with a friends company called fifteenlabs lol. Still pretty new.
- progbits 2mo agohttps://www.twelvelabs.io/blog/introducing-the-multimodal-ai-23labs-hackathon https://www.twelvelabs.io/blog/introducing-the-multimodal-ai... > Twelve Labs and ElevenLabs are co-hosting the 23Labs Hackathon
- shuvrojit 2mo ago[flagged]
- BoorishBears 2mo agoI was confused why I was already on the list... this is from 2023.
- OutOfHere 2mo agoFwiw, ElevenLabs doesn't even make any sense as a firm, considering its TTS offering is extremely overpriced by an absurdly large factor. A large user would be far better off using local models. Even the OpenAI TTS is cheaper. There is no moat here such as with hardware.
- allthetime 2mo agoThe moat is marketing and good looking UI. They have been spamming Tik Tok et al. relentlessly and every lazy opportunist algorithm exploiter out there knows who they are, what they do, and that they can easily generate enough slop per cost to make their money back. So yeah, not a moat, but you're kinda missing the point. Just like Lovable is wildly over-priced, under powered, and has crazy levels of lock in built in (you can't even access your own supabase account that it uses for backend). It's not for you / us. Its for the masses who don't know (or want to know) any better.
- dannyw 2mo ago11labs does _way_ more than basic TTS. The options, customizability, quality of voice cloning (for editing your own voices), etc is far more than what you see on the surface. Check out their docs for a glimpse: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/introduction https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/introduction If you wanna hook up a voice agent to Twilio for support for example, 11labs is probably one of the quickest and least painful ways to integrate while still maintaining control over your agent and behaviors. Yes you can vibe code your own glue code, but try that in a large enterprise where you have to consider your team now taking on perpetual maintenance; and not having a vendor/SLA to just send tickets to when something breaks (or you want something new).
- agg23 2mo agoA long time ago I used "23 Labs" as a funny name relative to my username. Fast forward many years and I considered actually using it. Apparently "[Number] Labs" is a very popular idea now... Oh well
- no_no_no_yes 2mo agoWow, haha I just created an LLC that is a "<number> Labs" company. I don't plan on raising VC or anything public with it, it's just a name to release apps on the app store under. I was trying to come up with a name and it was exhausting, everything was taken, I was trying "clever names", eventually after strategizing with ChatGPT it gave me the suggestion along the lines of: "Many people just use their initials, birthdate, or area code, plus the word 'software', 'tech', or 'labs'" And I went ahead with that and called it a day!
- saghm 2mo agoI got lucky when registering an LLC last year for some contract work because despite having a relatively common first and last name, no one had named an nLLC that in my (very large) city. At some point during the process, I had to pick an officer title for myself for some paperwork, but there didn't seem to be any guidelines or restrictions on them, so I just put down my name for that too; I figured that being Firstname Lastname of Firstname Lastname LLC is probably even more clear than "CEO" since it makes it even more obvious that I'm the only one in it.
- overfeed 2mo agoDoctors and dentist sometimes do that for their practices, but aren't the only ones working there.
- djmips 2mo agohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/one-bit-labs/posts/?feedView=all https://www.linkedin.com/company/one-bit-labs/posts/?feedVie...
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- streptomycin 2mo agoReminiscent of 22 Savage <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIz1HGNlTA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIz1HGNlTA4>, 23 Savage <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8JKly7sXpU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8JKly7sXpU>, etc.
- quantumish 2mo agoAuthor here. Very surprised to see this here - my poor web server wasn't built for this! It's back up for now.
- jemoka 2mo agook phew managed to archive it as the site came back up https://archive.is/BHilO https://archive.is/BHilO
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- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoBack around 1994, I was 22 and had just moved away from my parents' home. I was renting a room in a 3BR house with roommates. We had pastimes like dancing to Deee-Lite, playing TinyMUD, and playing DOOM on a null modem connection with my 386. It turned out that one roommate had pastimes involving a pump shotgun he stored under his bed. But anyways. I was eager, and knowledgeable enough, to register a unique domain name for the entire household. It wasn't clear how we'd use it, with no permanent Internet presence, and we didn't have any hosting, DNS, or BGP capabilities, but a domain name sure seemed like a nifty thing to have, and it was free. So I aimed to register under .ca.us. Perhaps I was not feeling creative enough that week, or it was quite difficult to capture the zeitgeist of four completely different college kids sharing a house, but I decided that the best name for us was <street address>-<street name>.san-diego.ca.us. Fictitious example: 1234-main.san-diego.ca.us. Another curiosity about this particular name was that it may have been on the cusp of standards compliance. In the original DNS specification, a label could not begin with a digit, mainly because of parsing from bare IP addresses, but as you can see, eventually it was permitted, and our domain registration went forward. It was a real bummer, though, because our household domain name languished, as I argued with my roommates, and we had no means of even setting up email addresses, but for a few shining years I did own a wacky, unique, but very generic street-address-based domain name.
- quantumish 2mo agoHa, I also happen to be in the middle of trying to register a .ca.us domain right now! As you say, they can be very plain-looking but unique :) And (unlike many of the <number>-labs companies) at least there's some logic behind using your physical address for a domain.
- jv22222 2mo ago> https://app.seventylabs.ch/ https://app.seventylabs.ch/ > 6.90 CHF - locks your Mac's keyboard, trackpad and mouse and shows a black screen while you clean. Free 7-day trial. > 4.90 CHF - opens macOS's color loupe on any pixel on screen and instantly copies its HEX, RGB or HSL code to the clipboard. History of your last 8 colors, with a real magnifier that zooms into pixels. Free 7-day trial. That's weird that the more techy thing is cheaper.
- allthetime 2mo agoboth of those things are available for free from others. we can assume all of that is AI-generated rip off code anyways.
- hollow-moe 2mo agoBoth of those are actually built-in but very poorly documented (or basically undocumented). Disable keyboard for cleaning : https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/448938 https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/448938 and for the color picker MacOS has "Digital Color Meter.app" preinstalled when its window has the focus hover anywhere on screen and use cmd+shift+c to copy the value (by default it uses RGB but in the View menu you can change it to hexadecimal, the values are then copied as HTML #)
- allthetime 2mo agoI use the color meter all the time! Didn't know about the view->"as hex" option though, that's very helpful.
- ivan888 2mo agoNew OEIS entry: numbers used in names of startups followed by “labs”
- anticensor 2mo agoAren't OEIS entries immutable?
- oulipo 2mo agoIt's a kind of trend in the Silicon Valley to name startups with a number to make it abstract. People argue that it make it more "memorable" than a "theme-based" name, because it's less expected. But when everyone does it, it becomes less so
- karim79 2mo agoNot a fan of any company where the CEO is proud to have worked at Palantir and Blackrock. Meh and gross.
- Illniyar 2mo agohttps://41labs.ai/ https://41labs.ai/ I think this is the most obviously AI designed website I have ever seen. From the nonsensical logo, the bland generic design language, overlapping support chats to mix and match of different landing page patterns. Misaligned avatar circles.
- grensley 2mo agoI think the logo is pretty nifty actually. It's both "41" and "AI"
- Gareth321 2mo agoYeah I guess I'm AI because I like it.
- WhrRTheBaboons 2mo agoI do like the idea as well. however, the weird, unnecessary bevel[0] does give off some ai vibes. in any case, pretty much all of those sites look like boilerplate vibe-coded startup templates. [0] https://41labs.ai/logo-nav.png?v=2 https://41labs.ai/logo-nav.png?v=2
- Barbing 2mo agoThough a little A1 Steak Saucey
- jona777than 2mo agoThis comment gave me an uptick in hunger, instantaneously.
- ryukoposting 2mo agoWhy is every single thing on this page... throbbing.
- idk1 2mo agoI agree with the rest, but that's a fantastic logo.
- higginsniggins 2mo agoI'm disappointed that forty two labs isn't selling the answer to life, the universe and everything.
- avipars 2mo agohttps://archive.md/BHilO https://archive.md/BHilO
- TZubiri 2mo agoNowadays, if you really want to sound modern and avant garde, try pitching a non-AI startup.
- vova_hn2 2mo agoMissed the best name! https://1337labs.org/ https://1337labs.org/ (I'm not affiliated with this company and know nothing about it)
- malixp 2mo agoAt this point I’m expecting FourteenLabs to show up with a $200M valuation and a mission statement about “redefining human potential."
- pranav_tech26 2mo ago[flagged]
- DrewADesign 2mo agoMaybe soon they’ll be effectively disposable enough to start using the naming strategies of Chinese Amazon resellers of generic crap. Like “The mission statement of GLUFDRAWNBY labs is…”
- pranav_tech26 2mo ago[flagged]
- predkambrij 2mo ago168labs.ai is still available. Great!
- mattanimation 2mo agoWhat about eleventyseven?
- tonyhart7 2mo agonot very creative are we ?????
- dlcarrier 2mo agoAmazon beat everyone to the punch, with Lab126.
- benatkin 2mo ago57 could be a reference to the Chevy. Get it while it's hot... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Chevrolet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Chevrolet
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- Caracas288 2mo agoThere’s still time to get in on the ground floor! What an opportunity
- polygot 2mo agohttps://gist.github.com/alexyorke/2b34de0856c143936c7f4deb6fcead5c https://gist.github.com/alexyorke/2b34de0856c143936c7f4deb6f...
- qurren 2mo agoReminds me of the PCB companies. 3pcb, 4pcb, 5pcb, 6pcb, 7pcb, ...
- bitwize 2mo agoIt's like the Ocean's movies.
- stevage 2mo agoI'm guessing at least some of these are named after their street addresses. 47 Smith St -> 47 Labs
- silmoiceanu 2mo agowe're note in a bubble we're not in a bubble lalala
- whoislewys_1 2mo agoTIL about vectorheart. One my favorite aesthetics, never knew the name
- 20after4 2mo agoMy friends' band "Dead Sexy" released an album in 2005 that embodies the aesthetic perfectly: https://www.last.fm/music/Dead+Sexy/Between+The+Lines https://www.last.fm/music/Dead+Sexy/Between+The+Lines (there were multiple bands with that name over the years)
- juliend2 2mo agoSo true. IMO, (web) aesthetic went downhill after that, with web2.0 rounded corners and then mobile friendly minimalism.
- yieldcrv 2mo agoBro you killed seventyonelab One shot
- jemoka 2mo agoit loads just fine for me
- pshc 2mo agoI think it’s similar to the reasoning behind HN stripping numbers from clickbait headlines. Numbers feel salient even when they represent nothing at all, because numbers are used universally in every field of human study and endeavor. Unlike field-specific jargon.
- randomblock1 2mo agoThey even go into the negative numbers. https://minusonelabs.com/ https://minusonelabs.com/ https://minus3labs.com/ https://minus3labs.com/ https://minus9labs.com/ https://minus9labs.com/ (borked but existed at one point) It's getting ridiculous, frankly
- captn3m0 2mo agoI run a reverse engineering collective that is called 52 Labs: https://52-1ab.github.io/ https://52-1ab.github.io/. > 52 1ab (Pronounced 52 Lab) is a Software Research group dedicated to interoperabilty research in India. It is named after the Section 52(1) (ab) of The Copyright Act which states: >> The following act shall not constitute an infringement of copyright: >> the doing of any act necessary to obtain information essential for operating inter-operability of an independently created computer programme with other programmes by a lawful possessor of a computer programme provided that such information is not otherwise readily available.
- vasco 2mo agoIn some cities many coffee shops are just named after the street number. Like "68" would be very trendy of a name. Maybe this is the same.
- winrid 2mo agoThere's also https://nolabs.ai https://nolabs.ai which I just now discovered thanks to this, which is a competitor to my own https://watch.ly https://watch.ly
- dcanelhas 2mo agoThere was 13th lab, acquired by oculus years ago. Wouldn't surprise me if there are a bunch of first, second, third labs too
- sigvef 2mo agoI work on https://elevenmusic.io https://elevenmusic.io (full disclosure), so I just had to check: onemusic.com.au twomusic.it 3music.tv fourmusic.com 5music.com.tw bbc.co.uk/6music seven-music.com (8 appears to be vacant?) ninemusic.net tenmusic.in
- unprovable 2mo ago44Music not taken? Common time signature seems obvious...
- unprovable 2mo agooh, 'the44music' is it. Ok, world is fine.
- ljm 2mo agoNaturally most of the 67/six seven ones are taken too, but are just being squatted on. I'm disappointed that sixseven.ai is not joining the Gen-Z brainrot revolution.
- ocodo 2mo agoRecently registered by NameCheap... (not by me)
- _neil 2mo agoClose but not exact, and not defunct https://blog.8tracks.com/ https://blog.8tracks.com/
- pluies 2mo agoMaybe 8 music sounds too close to “hate music” when pronounced fast? Not exactly a great advertisement if someone tunes in to your radio station and hears you hate music.
- MollyRealized 2mo agois there onetwothreeFOURfivesixseveneightNINEteneleventwelvemusic.in [1]? [1] - https://youtu.be/rqSq3qTjFd8 https://youtu.be/rqSq3qTjFd8
- donutquine 2mo ago[dead]
- unprovable 2mo agoMissing opportunity for rational compositionalists over Grothendick Topologies and (pre-)sheaves taking FiftySevenLabs
- hajrice 2mo agoThe list goes even further - Many companies are doing "[zipcode/postalcode/country calling code of HQ] labs", e.g. 904 labs, 212 labs, etc.
- nabajour 2mo agonot one website raising Labrador Retrievers ?
- toniprada 2mo agoI own http://34labs.com http://34labs.com since forever :D (a homage to the Spanish phone prefix)
- swiftcoder 2mo agoI feel like Lab126 (Amazon's hardware R&D lab) should probably make the cut
- brirec 2mo agoAll of the internal software on Kindle devices references lab126
- swiftcoder 2mo agoYeah, back in the firephone days everyone who worked on the hardware side had lab126 on their contract. The software teams all had digital products instead.
- andrew_mason1 2mo agofuck it, we're doing five labs
- MrGilbert 2mo agoAs a grown-up, adult man with absolutely no inappropriate thoughts, I was expecting https://69labs.vip/ https://69labs.vip/ to be.. something else.
- tornikeo 2mo agolol. I was quite disappointed too
- ocodo 2mo agoMy key take away from this is that one of my favorite graphic art styles from the 90/00s is now referred to by some as "VectorHeart" and afaik it never had a defacto name so... Long live *VectorHeart Style™*
- lathiat 2mo agoLong before AI, I used the domain sixlabs.org for many years from about 2002-ish through 2012 when I managed to lose the domain and someone has had it registered and parked ever since with no active services and no obvious for sale sign. Still registered now. At the time it was a reference to a combination of IPv6 (which I was fond of) and that my birthday is on the 6th. Was like a little mini self-hosting project for web+email that had me and other friends on a real physical box (was also early days for VMs :) In any case, this write-up is amusing.