Startups.RIP mines dead YC startup lessons

This is more useful than a nostalgia archive because it tries to convert historical failure data into reusable product specs.

• –The strongest angle is the combination of research, post-mortem, and rebuild plan, which makes each entry actionable instead of just interesting
• –It targets founders and AI builders who want validated problem spaces without starting from a blank page
• –The “paste into Claude Code, Cursor, or Lovable” framing is smart because it bridges idea discovery and execution
• –Quality control will make or break it; if the AI overstates why a startup failed, the playbooks become confident fiction
• –The category has real demand because dead startups are one of the cheapest ways to find unresolved markets with existing proof of interest