Show HN: Browse dead and dying startups

Busy companies also don't tweet, or acquired ones, or ones that have found Twitter to be an ineffective way of reaching customers. In'n'Out Burgers is listed as Dead, for example, as is Valve Software. Methinks Twitter may be a poor metric for measuring this.

Good god that&#x27;s a frustrating UI. Am i blind or is there no meaningful way to find a company you&#x27;re interested in? Ie, a search.<p>I used the alphabetical list, but scrolling through what seems like thousands of companies is a bit asinine. What am i missing?<p><i>edit</i>: This is bothering me more than it should, so i figured i would try to automate scrolling to the bottom of the page so i can try and find the company i wanted. Once opened devtools, i saw it making requests to an API, looks like i was on page 30:<p><pre><code> http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deathwatch.io&#x2F;json&#x2F;US-ALL-SORTED_AZ-30.json </code></pre> So, i just started poking around the pages of that list. With that said... it seems to stop at page 79. Eg:<p><pre><code> http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deathwatch.io&#x2F;json&#x2F;US-ALL-SORTED_AZ-79.json </code></pre> That works... but this:<p><pre><code> http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deathwatch.io&#x2F;json&#x2F;US-ALL-SORTED_AZ-80.json </code></pre> Does not. It looks like page 79 is on the Cs of the A-Z listing.. hmm

If this were beefed up with data from news sources &#x2F; actual Crunchbase activity, it would be more accurate. SimplyHired, for example, seems to be dead (news sources say it may have died in June) whereas I&#x27;m pretty sure OKCupid is alive, but only tweets occasionally (like when a new blog post comes out.)<p>Still, good start

You made me remember Hi5! It was Facebook before Facebook in my country.<p>I also recognize a number of these projects, a lot of which are now basically on &quot;auto-run&quot; (not dead, but no new feature since a while)

I wonder where did the list of startups come from? the info activity is being pulled from twitter, but as for the names of the startups?

Amusing to see Berkshire Hathaway is on the unwell list.