I've toyed in the past with the idea of creating a place for people to capture their now defunct startups based on my own experience with how quickly all the digital traces disappear. Sort of like Crunchbase but focused only on dead projects. Any one thinks that there's a general need for this?
Years ago I was working on a digital graveyard called “rest in bits” (RIP = rest in peace = rest in piece = pieces are bits = bits are what makes up code) but it never came to fruition. Anyway, if you need a name, I recommend rest in bits.
There is a delicious irony to restinbits offering the name of their defunct project, rest in bits, to someone making a site tracking defunct projects. Rest in bits could then be in the inaugural batch on rest in bits.
Back in the days following the OG dotcom bust there was a website called Fucked Company that detailed all the tech startups that either had failed or were in the process of failing. Sadly long since defunct but the front page at least is still available via the wayback machine:
Love the idea and your past (passed?) projects. My condolences.
I’ve built something similar, called Project Cemetery [0], with the hopes of giving all of us a place to pay our respects to the side projects that have passed. Sadly, it just wasn’t meant for this world either. Only projects of mine are listed, although I’d still gladly post submissions!
I would not contribute to something framed as a graveyard, because the name implies commemoration of your loved ones.
If you ever want to be successful, your way will be paved with the corpses for your side-projects. You killed each one yourself and learned from it. Not a single tear shed.
I've been seeing this on a few posts recently -- A quiet thread will show up again a couple days later on the front page. All the comments from the original thread are still there, but with new timestamps. I was speculating that it is a new way to give some posts a second chance to get more attention and discussion.
I think the subscription/"free trial" concept is a particularly hard sell for this. Maybe micropayments would be much better suited as a default: pay $1 right now via Paypal to have a video transcribed. Subscription optional for recurring customers.
I’d go as far as to say it’s very useful :-) I don’t know how many times I’ve sat trying to skip trough a video to find a certain phrase or fact. Also the name is great and easy to remember, definitely committing that to my memory.
I am curious, from a technical point of view, are you pulling down the YouTube transcription or doing your own? And does that rely on the YouTube api (thus costing money for you at some point?).
Thanks! We used the Youtube API and it's actually free for our purpose. Using the API allows us to serve the requests super fast as the transcription is already done.
