Every technology era creates its own graveyard. Google killed the phone book, the travel agent, and the newspaper classifieds section. Amazon buried countless retail chains. The iPhone put an entire camera industry on life support.
Now it’s AI’s turn, and the body count in SaaS land is piling up fast.
What This Site Is
Killed by Claude is a tongue-in-cheek tracker of the products, companies, and business models being disrupted — or outright obliterated — by the rise of large language models and AI tooling. The name is a riff on Killed by Google, but instead of tracking Google’s internal product graveyard, we’re tracking the external casualties of the AI wave.
To be clear: “Claude” here is a stand-in for the broader AI revolution. Plenty of these companies are being disrupted by GPT, Gemini, open-source models, and the general vibe shift that happened when the world realized you could just ask a computer to do things.
What Counts as “Killed”?
We’re using a loose definition. A company doesn’t have to be bankrupt to earn a tombstone here. Our criteria:
- Stock cratered due to AI competition (Chegg, anyone?)
- Traffic collapsed as users switched to AI alternatives
- Business model invalidated even if the company is still limping along
- Acquired at a fire-sale price after AI ate their lunch
This Is Also a Learning Project
Full disclosure: this site is also my playground for learning web development, hosting, and infrastructure. Built with Hugo, deployed on Cloudflare Pages, with a tools directory coming soon on GitHub Pages.
If anything looks janky, that’s a feature, not a bug.
Got a suggestion for the graveyard? Know a SaaS product that’s been disrupted by AI? I’m building this in the open — contributions and corrections welcome.