🪦 Dead
Yupp.ai
Startup failed · No Product-Market Fit · shut down March 31, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 10m 3d
- Cause of death
- No Product-Market Fit
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- Market
- Type
- Startup
A crowdsourced AI-evaluation platform that paid users to compare model outputs, backed by $33M from a16z crypto. It reached 1.3 million users and still died inside a year. The labs had moved on to expert-sourced data and agentic evaluation — broad consumer preference signal simply stopped being the scarce input anyone would pay for. Co-founders Pankaj Gupta and Gilad Mishne kept it accessible for two weeks after the announcement, then closed signups permanently.