I typically scan the domain before even reading the title.
Turns out this is not some AI effort by @dang!
AI App Graveyard
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Re: AI App Graveyard
#52This is sad. As technologists we should celebrate folks who tried to build new services and applications. It would be good to document these and explain why they didn't work.
How many of these startups are building new models, datasets and algorithms? Or are they all just prefixing a few lines to a prompt before passing it on to a 3rd party API? If these companies actually had something worth celebrating, would they really be out of the game this early? Most dead AI companies right now are muppets that built the quickest, shittiest thing they could to try and be the first in the door in a…
There are many of these startups you described and there are also many companies with years of work joining the graveyard. It’s not black and white.
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#53You could probalby build a dot com bubble graveyard, an app store graveyard, and a web3 graveyard. Hype cycles all look the same and only very few winners come out of it.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man, cloudflare is like a few minutes. Maybe their domain registrar features need to be better known.
No, it is not. For a hobbyist it is overkill, for a professional it might require filling out some TPS reports.
I dunno.
The free cloudflare is such low hanging fruit to make any shared vps Wordpress hosting much better for next to nothing.
Could just be me.
Re: AI App Graveyard
#55I typically scan the domain before even reading the title. Turns out this is not some AI effort by @dang!
@dang is an AI, confirmed
Re: AI App Graveyard
#56You could probalby build a dot com bubble graveyard, an app store graveyard, and a web3 graveyard. Hype cycles all look the same and only very few winners come out of it.
These companies are not designed to last forever. Many wrappers can make decent amounts of money for their creators for months and then die. Under these conditions a company can close down and still be considered a big success.
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That’s a compelling story. But that doesn’t make it accurate. We are early on and it’s hard to determine how large or small the ecosystem and value that will be created on top. Some went big, like personal computers, the internet, databases, Java, electricity, and so on. Others did not (yet), web3 (maybe), other databases, low code platform, website builders, workstations, many old personal computing systems, etc. Ye…
Good points here. I certainly see the opportunity for start-ups to break through here. I just don't have much faith in ones where GPT-4 is their core tech. On the other hand, companies going after the entire vertical where AI is a feature and not the product, or well-funded companies with innovative models that outperform OpenAI is totally a possibility.
I'm not convinced of the alternative either though. If you think of the AI as an intelligence akin to an employee.. at some level it becomes a commodity and then it becomes what is the AI doing.. what is it harnessed into?
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Re: AI App Graveyard
#59You could probalby build a dot com bubble graveyard, an app store graveyard, and a web3 graveyard. Hype cycles all look the same and only very few winners come out of it.
Dot com bubble was done - a very entertaining site at the time started by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
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Man, cloudflare is like a few minutes. Maybe their domain registrar features need to be better known.
Many other CDNs are also just few minutes. Or S3+cloudfront (if you've ever done it once before). Or github pages. I agree with the direction, but wanted to give some ideas different than CF.
Great point about other CDNs. Just was thinking of a point and click one for the most part.