The Idea Graveyard

Ideas we keep digging up. Same product, same pitch, same week. Please stop.

Pay-to-rank leaderboards (the 'outbid' wave)

13 seen

TopBump, 2bid.lol, citylot.lol launched this week on top of last week's nine. 2bid.lol's own first-24h numbers were $3 revenue from 1,146 visitors. Only PaddockWeek, which ranks on verified revenue rather than payment, has an angle worth anything.

Launch directories and app discovery boards

7 seen

MicroLaunch, TinyLaunch and shipbay.dev all appeared again. Built because they are easy; none has an audience the founder did not already have.

Long-form video to short clips and blog posts

3 seen

Multiple launches describing the identical pipeline. Underlying models are commodity and the incumbents ship the same feature.

Social scheduling and AI content posting

3 seen

Established players already at serious scale (Postiz cited at $180k MRR). Hard to enter without a specific vertical or a distribution advantage you already own.

'Get your first 100 users' marketing products

3 seen

Behansa, MicroLaunch premium, and a stream of posts asking the question. Everyone is selling distribution to founders who by definition have no money yet.

AI text humanisers / detector bypass

2 seen

Same product, same five bullet points (humanize, paraphrase, expand, shorten, detection score), no differentiation and permanent platform risk from whichever detector they are chasing.

Unified LLM API gateways

2 seen

'One API, 30+ models, OpenAI-compatible, pay as you go.' Competing on price against companies that can subsidise it, aimed at developers who can switch away in an afternoon.

App Store screenshot and store-asset generators

2 seen

SnapMonk and Minimalist Screens both surfaced this week doing the same job for the same buyer. Early saturation rather than late, but a third undifferentiated entrant is already pointless.

AI interview preparation

1 seen

Ultimate AI Interviewer launched to Product Hunt this week into a category with dozens of funded incumbents and no defensible wedge on offer.

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