AI Product Graveyard

#1

Post by StriverGuy » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

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#2

Post by snoren » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:07 PM UTC

Oh man, lots of dead ideas. Atm attention is more important than ever, cos delivering on ideas got easier. Getting the attention your product needs got harder

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#3

Post by NewLogic » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC

snoren wrote: post #2

Oh man, lots of dead ideas. Atm attention is more important than ever, cos delivering on ideas got easier. Getting the attention your product needs got harder

Did delivering quality really get easier? I'm certainly not seeing it in the software I use. Delivering scale doesn't mean the mission was executed well.

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#4

Post by fred_is_fred » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:13 PM UTC

1/3 of these were acquired so far. I think what would be interesting is a label that showed whether anyone made money before it shutdown.

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#5

Post by nkmnz » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC

fred_is_fred wrote: post #4

1/3 of these were acquired so far. I think what would be interesting is a label that showed whether anyone made money before it shutdown.

Some of the acquired didn't even shut down. https://wandb.ai/site seems to be up and running.

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#6

Post by bcjdjsndon » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC

snoren wrote: post #2

Oh man, lots of dead ideas. Atm attention is more important than ever, cos delivering on ideas got easier. Getting the attention your product needs got harder

A lot of these are just sticking a ui in front of someone else's AI and silently feeding it extra prompts.

This adds a tiny amount of value, sure, but enough to gamble millions on? Obviously not.

No wonder they failed

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#7

Post by MichaelNolan » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC

List is missing OpenAI’s Sora.

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#8

Post by ulfw » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

Same as crypto/blockchain five years ago. Exactly the same.

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#9

Post by dgellow » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

nkmnz wrote: post #5

fred_is_fred wrote: post #4

1/3 of these were acquired so far. I think what would be interesting is a label that showed whether anyone made money before it shutdown.

Some of the acquired didn't even shut down. https://wandb.ai/site seems to be up and running.

Yeah weight and biases is definitely still active

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#10

Post by axegon_ » Tue, May 05, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

NewLogic wrote: post #3

snoren wrote: post #2

Oh man, lots of dead ideas. Atm attention is more important than ever, cos delivering on ideas got easier. Getting the attention your product needs got harder

Did delivering quality really get easier? I'm certainly not seeing it in the software I use. Delivering scale doesn't mean the mission was executed well.

Judging from everyone I know, it will take people a lot of time to learn and accept a lesson from decades ago(one from before some of us were even born and I'm in my mid 30's): lines of code is a shit metric. Sloppers tend to believe that something seemingly working = production ready = good execution. And the metric, of course, is lines of code or "tokens". Until then, the list on this website will keep growing exponentially.