Startups.RIP
Rebuild 1,738+ dead YC startups with AI
Details
- External ID
- 1119496
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Startups.RIP
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- April 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 204
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2946859903381642
- Tags
- Startup Lessons, Vibe coding, Alpha
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
Startups often fail because of timing, not ideas. Startups.RIP is a wiki of 1,700+ YC startups that shut down or got acquired. Our AI research agent writes a detailed post-mortem (what they built, why they failed, what's changed since) and a rebuild playbook with implementation-ready technical specs you can drop straight into your AI coding agent. Every failed startup is a validated market with unfinished business. Shortcut the idea maze. Start with what almost worked.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ai-generated startup ideas from failed companies
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The site is a directory and wiki of publicly known startup post-mortems and AI-generated rebuild playbooks stored in a database and presented via a standard web UI with search.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 34 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #32 of 35 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 141 days after the earliest competitor.
- Foundertrace · hn · 2026-01-03 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- A cemetery for failed side projects and what founders build next · hn · 2026-08-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Marker: AI-native consultancy rebuilding businesses with AI agents · yc · 2026-08-19 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- YC Has It · hn · 2026-07-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- YC has it · ph · 2026-07-24 · 220 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- TeardownHQ, teardowns/playbooks of how indie startups grew · hn · 2026-06-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- killmyidea · github · 2026-09-17 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Break the Company · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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