ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
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A web page catalogs dozens of number+Labs AI startups, revealing a naming trend that has spread far beyond ElevenLabs.
The author searched for "thirteenlabs" after hearing about ElevenLabs (audio) and TwelveLabs (video AI) and found the pattern extends through numbers 0-99. They annotated each number with links to companies using a "number+labs" or "number.lab" naming scheme, marking AI-related ones with a background. The page notes gaps like missing numbers, density around the seventies, and a standout site, seventyonelab.com, which declares itself "best viewed in Netscape 4/0+ or IE 5.0+" with a design reminiscent of early 2000s vectorheart aesthetics.
The author questions whether startups independently converge on this scheme and considers speculative domain buys like "twentyfivelabs" or "thirtytwolabs."
What commenters are saying
Commenters trace the naming trend to 15.ai, an early TTS project by a TF2 community member who released it for free and later abandoned AI. One user who launched FakeYou recounts the era, noting 15.ai had better distribution but the creator never commercialized or open-sourced the model. Others debate whether startups independently converge on "number+Labs" or just copy ElevenLabs, with some calling it a dumb naming scheme akin to "Zen-" prefixes or missing-vowel names. A few note that 50labs is still available and joke about registering domains before the HN crowd grabs them.