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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.

The first to be laid to rest here. Respect your elders.

  1. #1Google Reader2005 – 2013editorialIt knew what you read before an algorithm decided for you. Killed while healthy. Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  2. #2Vine2013 – 2017editorialSix seconds was enough. Everyone copied the format, nobody kept the app. A giant shipped it 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  3. #3Google Stadia2019 – 2023editorialThe streaming worked. The part where anyone bought the games did not. No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  4. #4Inbox by Gmail2015 – 2019editorialBundled our mail, then got bundled back into it. Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  5. #5Google+2011 – 2019editorialCircles nobody drew, for a party nobody came to. Eight years of trying. No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  6. #6Google Wave2009 – 2012editorialEmail, chat and docs at once, explained by nobody, understood by fewer. No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  7. #7Google Allo2016 – 2019editorialA messaging app from the company that already had four. Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  8. #8Google Hangouts2013 – 2022editorialSurvived nine years and three rebrands before Chat finished the job. Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  9. #9Google Play Music2011 – 2020editorialYou uploaded fifty thousand songs. They moved you to a different app anyway. Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  10. #10Google Podcasts2018 – 2024editorialA podcast app so plain it worked. Folded into a music app that doesn't. Chased a shinier idea 35 1 2buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  11. #11goo.gl2009 – 2019editorialShortened the whole web, then took a decade of links down with it. Other 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  12. #12Picasa2002 – 2015editorialOrganised the family photos for thirteen years without asking for a subscription. Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  13. #13Skype2003 – 2025editorialBecame a verb, then a fallback, then a Teams migration notice. Twenty-two years. A giant shipped it 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  14. #14Wunderlist2011 – 2020editorialBought for the team, kept alive for five years, replaced by something worse. Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  15. #15Mailbox2013 – 2016editorialMade a million people wait in line for an email app, then closed the line. Chased a shinier idea 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  16. #16Parse2011 – 2017editorialBackend for a generation of apps. One year of notice, and everybody moved out. Other 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  17. #17Periscope2015 – 2021editorialTaught the world to go live, then watched every other app do it in-house. No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  18. #18Yahoo Answers2005 – 2021editorialSixteen years of questions nobody should have asked and answers nobody should trust. No users 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  19. #19Internet Explorer1995 – 2022editorialWon the first browser war, spent the next twenty years being the download tool. A giant shipped it 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  20. #20Adobe Flash Player1996 – 2020editorialBuilt the animated web, then spent a decade being asked to update itself. Other 0 0buried 2 hours ago2 hours agolaid to rest
  21. #21Manifest2025 – 2026A productivity system for solo founder Ran out of motivation 5 0buried 25 minutes ago25 minutes agolaid to rest