A tracker for the AI disruption era

Killed by Claude

Tracking the products, companies, and once-sacred SaaS margins that started looking fragile the moment AI became a better default.

3 cases tracked
1 analyses published
2 repos active
Tracking — monitoring AI disruption from San Francisco to Tehran

What makes the list?

Not every company has to die to look dead on paper.

  • Stock price collapses after AI makes the core offering feel replaceable.
  • Traffic or usage drops because users now ask a model first.
  • The business limps on, but the category itself stops making sense.
Chegg
2005 – 2023 (peak relevance)

Once the king of homework help. Stock cratered 99% from peak after ChatGPT made their core product a commodity overnight.

edtech
Stack Overflow
2008 – 2024 (traffic peak)

The developer Q&A bible saw traffic plummet as LLMs became the first stop for coding questions. Sold knowledge base to AI companies for training.

developer tools
Your SaaS Here
20XX – 20XX

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