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Don't die.
Thanks! This advice helped my company survive bad times!
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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 :-)
Psst, that's actually already happened
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#63This 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/
By the way, US and UK versions here:
http://deathwatch.io/us/
http://deathwatch.io/uk/
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#64Good to know Keith Richards isn't dead yet, didn't realize he was a startup.
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#65It 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
What is dead may never die
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#66How much does it cost to keep this small site up and running?
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#67Er, I don't think 9front is dead yet, fairly certain there was a release a few weeks ago :)
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#68Has 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 lived through that era compared to then things might be tight but people are actually making money back then nobody was making money and web applications required teams of c/c++ people the burn rates were staggering.
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#69If it's a list of startups, not sure why any of the big companies (i.e. Apple, Microsoft etc) are on there.
Also, I'm curious about what the refresh rate is to check HTTP status. I'm sure some sites on that list may have been down for more than a day or two.
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#70I 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!
I worked at one of these startups whose product kept running for months, even after firing all of its developers. That's the main reason for this and the "dead yet" name -- the "walking dead" state definitely seems like a common occurrence.