🪦 Dead
Wsup AI
Startup failed · Companion Market Squeeze · shut down June 19, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 1y 7m
- Cause of death
- Companion Market Squeeze
- Killed by
- Itself
- Type
- App
A no-sign-up AI character-chat app that briefly found an audience in the gap beneath Character.AI and Replika. In May 2026 it announced a wind-down: chats worked until May 24, accounts went read-only from May 25, and the service closed on June 19. No reason was given beyond the obvious one — an 18-month-old companion app cannot outspend incumbents with multi-year head starts. An unrelated operator has since launched a look-alike under the same name.
Collateral damage: Conversations, generated images and unused credits were frozen on May 25 and gone on June 19.