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Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups

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Post by shopkins » Thu, May 26, 2016, 11:34 AM UTC

Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
deadyet.lol

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#2

Post by Smudge » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:11 PM UTC

Seems useful (albeit tongue-in-cheek), but will have to keep my eye on this just in case:

http://isdeadyet.deadyet.lol/

;-)

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#3

Post by sarreph » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:15 PM UTC

Interesting idea. However, I'm not a fan of the overwhelmingly negative vibe this gives off. By this I mean there seems to be no effort made about any kind of constructive criticism or help, e.g. a way to offer feedback on the listed startups so that they could actually use it as a platform to learn from.

So far it seems to me that it's more of a "Haha, you didn't make it" page creator when it could actually become a force for good.

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#4

Post by jackgavigan » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:18 PM UTC

http://istheranos.deadyet.lol

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

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#6

Post by Jabbles » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

What happened to color.xxx ?

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#7

Post by pauly » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

pretty negative, reminds me of fuckedcompany.com back in about 2000 - that made it into a game, you could bet on which dotcom bubble companies were going to fail.

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#8

Post by shopkins » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

Smudge wrote: post #2

Seems useful (albeit tongue-in-cheek), but will have to keep my eye on this just in case: http://isdeadyet.deadyet.lol/ ;-)

Hahah I will be too! ;)

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Post by abarringer » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:22 PM UTC

Anyone remember deathwatch[0] from the first dot com bubble?

It was based on actual financial statements "based on their reported liquid assets and loss rate. When the cash runs out, something bad for stockholders has to happen."

The weird thing is, at the time that statement was controversial. "We'll make it up in volume!"

http://downside.com/deathwatch.html[0]

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Post by akerro » Thu, May 26, 2016, 12:22 PM UTC

sarreph wrote: post #3

Interesting idea. However, I'm not a fan of the overwhelmingly negative vibe this gives off. By this I mean there seems to be no effort made about any kind of constructive criticism or help, e.g. a way to offer feedback on the listed startups so that they could actually use it as a platform to learn from. So far it seems to me that it's more of a "Haha, you didn't make it" page creator when it could actually become a…

I don't like the negative vibes I get from http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ instead giving tip how to stay up it's purposed to say if website is down.

It's normal that companies die. What advice would you give them?