Easy to spoof. Pinboard is listed as dead, though the healthcheck url on their site is Pinboard.im, not Pinboard.in
Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
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Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#72Has 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.
Web apps did not require c/c++. Plenty of ASP, and Perl/CGI sites in those days. The burn rates were insane but it didn't have a lot to do with the developer resources required. For one thing there was no AWS so many web companies built their own data center an exhorbitant capital and operational expense.
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#73If 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.
It checks the site immediately when it's added, then once a day afterwards.
The sentiment of http://issnapchat.deadyet.lol/ is amusing, but I agree it shouldn't be with the dead-product-walking list. Will add something that can filter or move these.
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#74Er, I don't think 9front is dead yet, fairly certain there was a release a few weeks ago :) http://9front.org/releases/
That was a bug from fetching the wrong URL. It's fixed now.
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#75Has 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
Fuckedcompany founder here.
:)
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#76Some living startups are listed dead (Pinboard, bad URL), but some dead startups are listed alive as well.
For instance, L'Usine à Design is dead since 2013. They were a French company that made furniture, I bought a couch from them. Their office was on the same floor as Moodstocks, where I was working at the time, and after it closed a few angry customers came banging at our door to complain.
(The reason why the website thinks they are not dead is that the URL they used for the check is the URL of a news article announcing that they were dying!)
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#77Did CoTap really die? This site says yes, but their site is up, their app is available in the App Store and their Twitter account is still active..walking dead or not dead yet?
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#78How much does it cost to keep this small site up and running?
About $5 / month.
Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups
#79I liked this one: http://autopsy.io/
And this: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/
Personally I'd like to see a post mortem for companies that collapsed. Sometimes they are the only historical record we have of these businesses.
So frequently founders and investors rush to burn the evidence of their failures before the lessons they learned are ever taught, and the business completely vanishes into the ether as if it never existed.
There's a lot of value in documenting and aggregating data in companies that failed for whatever reason. Not only to apply the lessons of failing but it does a great job of logging the industry zeitgeist, seeing what trends in ideas we thought were worth investing in that turned out to be duds, what flamed out and then sprung back years later. Too much of that data has been lost over time, it's a real shame.