Rip.so
a graveyard for dead internet things
Details
- External ID
- 47945955
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Rip.so
- Website domain
- rip.so
- Launched
- April 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 187
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9537275064267352
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- archive for dead websites
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a curated retro-styled static memorial website with simple content pages, search, and a newsletter sign-up.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Inbox, Trillian, Hamachi, PalaceChat, Phalanx
Concerns raised: Content appears AI-generated with minimal human curation, Missing notable products from the era (Optical Media, Habbo Hotel still around, Club Penguin), Incomplete coverage of historical services
Feature requests: Add user contribution/submission system for entries and memories, Include Optical Media entry, Add Minitel, Add The Palace and related clients, Add Nabaztags
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 105 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 106 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 172 days after the earliest competitor.
- Bury.lol · hn · 2026-08-26 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Internet Cemetery · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Kosh · hn · 2026-09-26 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- LastSignal · hn · 2026-01-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- A Better Internet · hn · 2026-04-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Graveyard-Mods-2026 · github · 2026-09-21 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- old reddit is back (without login) via 'shreddit'. · hn · 2026-07-31 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Browser Bookmarks, Done Right: Stop Building a Cemetery of Links · hn · 2026-09-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.