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

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Post by shopkins » Thu, May 26, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

Immortalin wrote: post #44

Would be great if you can sign up for email alerts when a company dies

Great idea, I'll look into it.

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

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Post by dkns » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:02 PM UTC

cpdz wrote: post #50

http://islocalhost.deadyet.lol/

Whew, thank god! What a relief, I use that website all the time to do all of my development on there.

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

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Post by gadders » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:02 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #36

Has none of the charm of FuckedCompany. That was a great web site and really captured the mood back then. Thanks https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud

I just came here to say that. FuckedCompany was hilarious back during the first .com crash.

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

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Post by lgas » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:03 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/ ;-)

Useful for what?

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

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Post by conjectures » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:04 PM UTC

http://isskyscanner.deadyet.lol/ apparently yes? Hmm....

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

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Post by dharmon » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:09 PM UTC

I was doing an analysis a while back to figure out YC's IRR, and the problem wasn't outright dead startups, but the walking dead.

Silicon Valley (YC included) has a large number of these. I remember one that is not "dead" by any public measure (live site accepting new customers), but upon digging I found that the two co-founders now work at Facebook!

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

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Post by swalsh » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:16 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #36

Has none of the charm of FuckedCompany. That was a great web site and really captured the mood back then. Thanks https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud

History lives on when you're riding the internet:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010203210800/http://www.fucked...

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

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Post by lambdacomplete » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:27 PM UTC

The `this page` links are relative so you get 404 (e.g. is9front.deadyet.lol/9front.org).

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

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Post by ajmarsh » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:34 PM UTC

It appears The Iron Isles is finally dead. Undoubtedly it was a great product with so much promise. Alas, even dreams as lofty as The Iron Isles must one day die. LOL

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

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Post by LionessLover » Thu, May 26, 2016, 2:40 PM UTC

caspii wrote: post #47

dmschulman wrote: post #23

This 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: http://deathwatch.io/

Creator of the bot here. Thanks for the shoutout!

I predict that within 10-20 years we will have AI bots that automatically come up with ideas for bots (trivial versions of this surely are already possible) - and that also have an add-on that lets them monitor forums and post "thanks!" notes to any comments mentioning them. I'm curious what people like you, or your descendants, will be doing by then :-)