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The graveyard for dead side projects.

Every builder has a few. Bury yours, get a tombstone worth sharing, and let strangers leave flowers.

Give your dead venture a real funeral.

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All time. Flowers are real money, so this is the only ranking that means anything.

  1. #1Google Reader2005 – 2013editorial“It knew what you read before an algorithm decided for you. Killed while healthy.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  2. #2Vine2013 – 2017editorial“Six seconds was enough. Everyone copied the format, nobody kept the app.” A giant shipped it 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  3. #3Google Stadia2019 – 2023editorial“The streaming worked. The part where anyone bought the games did not.” No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  4. #4Inbox by Gmail2015 – 2019editorial“Bundled our mail, then got bundled back into it.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  5. #5Google+2011 – 2019editorial“Circles nobody drew, for a party nobody came to. Eight years of trying.” No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  6. #6Google Wave2009 – 2012editorial“Email, chat and docs at once, explained by nobody, understood by fewer.” No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  7. #7Google Allo2016 – 2019editorial“A messaging app from the company that already had four.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  8. #8Google Hangouts2013 – 2022editorial“Survived nine years and three rebrands before Chat finished the job.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  9. #9Google Play Music2011 – 2020editorial“You uploaded fifty thousand songs. They moved you to a different app anyway.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  10. #10Google Podcasts2018 – 2024editorial“A podcast app so plain it worked. Folded into a music app that doesn't.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  11. #11goo.gl2009 – 2019editorial“Shortened the whole web, then took a decade of links down with it.” Other 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  12. #12Picasa2002 – 2015editorial“Organised the family photos for thirteen years without asking for a subscription.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  13. #13Wunderlist2011 – 2020editorial“Bought for the team, kept alive for five years, replaced by something worse.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  14. #14Mailbox2013 – 2016editorial“Made a million people wait in line for an email app, then closed the line.” Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  15. #15Parse2011 – 2017editorial“Backend for a generation of apps. One year of notice, and everybody moved out.” Other 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  16. #16Periscope2015 – 2021editorial“Taught the world to go live, then watched every other app do it in-house.” No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  17. #17Yahoo Answers2005 – 2021editorial“Sixteen years of questions nobody should have asked and answers nobody should trust.” No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  18. #18Internet Explorer1995 – 2022editorial“Won the first browser war, spent the next twenty years being the download tool.” A giant shipped it 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  19. #19Adobe Flash Player1996 – 2020editorial“Built the animated web, then spent a decade being asked to update itself.” Other 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers
  20. #20Skype2003 – 2025editorial“Became a verb, then a fallback, then a Teams migration notice. Twenty-two years.” A giant shipped it 0 0buried 2 hours ago0flowers