Seems useful (albeit tongue-in-cheek), but will have to keep my eye on this just in case: http://isdeadyet.deadyet.lol/ ;-)
502. Well, that didn't take long.
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#22Wasn't there one of these that turned into a service that then failed itself some time ago? I don't keep track but I seem to remember it from the past two years.
In any case, great domain name, haha.
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#23This Twitter bot (Deathwatch) kind of has the right idea, nice way to pseudo-automate the process at least. The downside though is that it can throw a lot of false positives, just because a startup stops tweeting from a particular account doesn't mean they've perished:
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Don't die.
Thanks! This advice helped my company survive bad times!
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#27Interesting 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?
'is it down for everybody or just me?' is a neutrally-framed status reporter. The 'vibes' I speak of are the way in which 'Dead Yet?' is, fundamentally by its name, presumptuous (in my opinion). Therefore I don't think you have a great analogy there but I do see your point that my 'feedback' point was perhaps a bit too general — it would just be nice to be able to review a startup (a small disqus comment thread on the page, for example) rather than just pointing the finger at its deadness.
I don't personally have generic advice off-the-bat for company-wide failure avoidance I'm afraid.
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#28Wasn't there one of these that turned into a service that then failed itself some time ago? I don't keep track but I seem to remember it from the past two years. In any case, great domain name, haha.
Yeah I think it was a service for closing up your startup, emailing your customers and displaying a nice "we're gone now" message.
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#29Reminds me of a small project I hacked on through the night once:
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#30An Assassins market for startups with a cryptocurrency backend would be a cool way to semi-automate this.