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Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#11

Post by newsomix9xl » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

nostratas wrote: post #4

There's always some kind of popular dumb naming scheme. I remember when it was prefixing "Zen-" to your startup. Some things never change

Zen-Eleven labs.

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#12

Post by waked » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

I did myself try a few increments above 11 once, but this takes it to the next level. Quality stuff.

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#13

Post by bee_rider » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

kennywinker wrote: post #5

What I’m seeing is there are 29 available startup names just waiting…

After that we’ll have to expand to 3 digits, which will open the possibility of naming your company after hip area codes.

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#14

Post by fwlr » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

I see someone is implementing FizzBuzz in “startup funding rounds”.

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#15

Post by csallen » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

newsomix9xl wrote: post #11

nostratas wrote: post #4

There's always some kind of popular dumb naming scheme. I remember when it was prefixing "Zen-" to your startup. Some things never change

Zen-Eleven labs.

eZenElevenLabsify.io

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#16

Post by dainiusse » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

Three score and ten labs

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

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Post by chvid » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

All those cool domain names are gone now - the power of the hn frontpage!

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#18

Post by Barbing » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:40 PM UTC

Hugged I think, no archives (org/today).

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#19

Post by Evidlo » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

kennywinker wrote: post #5

What I’m seeing is there are 29 available startup names just waiting…

kennywinkerlabs

Re: ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

#20

Post by possibilistic » Sat, Aug 22, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

WhatsName wrote: post #3

Tried to register sixsevenlabs, too late unfortunately...

All of them copied 15.ai

ElevenLabs was a commercial version of 15.ai. It's crazy, because 15.ai could have had the venture-scale outcomes if he'd fundraised and turned it into a SaaS product. He was in the right place, right time, with tremendous attention, but missed the opportunity.

The other "labs" followed the trend. The {number}labs / {number}.ai domains all quickly got squatted.

I was in the same space and watched it happening. I launched FakeYou about the same time as 15.ai, but 15 had the backing of 4chan and a better model. I still made it to 7M MAU and a million in revenue despite that.

Just last year, Fish Audio picked up where 15.ai / FakeYou / UberDuck / Weights.gg left off and made it to $20M ARR, which is a lesson about abandoning under-served markets when you still have tremendous gravity.