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.
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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.
edtechStack 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 toolsYour SaaS Here
20XX – 20XX
Know a product that got disrupted by AI? This is a living document — contributions welcome.
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Introducing Killed by Claude — a tongue-in-cheek tracker of the AI SaaS apocalypse.