“The king of UI prototyping watched Figma invent the future and froze in place.”
$356M Raised (Tiger Global, Accel)
$2.0B Peak Valuation • 7M+ Designers
R.I.P • 2006 — 2024
🌿
Mint
mint.com
Acquired & Gutted
“Acquired for $170M, milked for ads for 15 years, then unceremoniously executed.”
$170M (Acquired by Intuit in 2009)
15M+ Registered Users • #1 Personal Finance App
R.I.P • 2007 — 2022
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Heroku Free Tier
heroku.com
Unsustainable Free Tier
“The beloved git-push deployment heaven that taught a generation to code, killed by corporate bean counters.”
$212M (Acquired by Salesforce in 2010)
13M+ Deployed Apps • The Indie Hacker Playground
R.I.P • 2013 — 2016
🌅
Sunrise Calendar
calendar.sunrise.am
Acquired & Gutted
“The most beautiful calendar ever built, cannibalized for Outlook Mobile parts.”
$100M (Acquired by Microsoft)
10M+ Installs • Apple Design Award Winner
R.I.P • 2023 — 2024
📰
Artifact AI
artifact.news
VC Funding Dried Up
“Instagram founders proved that even genius algorithms can't make news aggregation economically viable.”
Self-funded by Instagram Co-Founders
App Store App of the Year Finalist
R.I.P • 2011 — 2020
⭐
Wunderlist
wunderlist.com
Acquired & Gutted
“Famous for its satisfying wooden task chime, executed to promote Microsoft To Do.”
$200M (Acquired by Microsoft in 2015)
13M+ Users • 1B+ Tasks Completed
R.I.P • 2005 — 2013
📡
Google Reader
google.com/reader
Big Tech Abandonment
“Google killed the central nervous system of internet blogging to prop up Google+.”
Google Internal Project
The Uncontested King of the Open Web
R.I.P • 2012 — 2023
🌧️
Dark Sky API
darksky.net
Acquired & Gutted
“Hyperlocal weather predictions so good Apple bought it just to deny Android and web developers access.”
Acquired by Apple
Millions of API calls / sec • Weather Industry Standard
R.I.P • 2018 — 2020
📱
Quibi
quibi.com
VC Funding Dried Up
“$1.75 Billion incinerated in 6 months by Hollywood executives who didn't understand TikTok.”
$1.75 Billion (Disney, Warner, Alibaba)
$1.75B Raised • Hollywood All-Star Backing
R.I.P • 2012 — 2018
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Pebble Cloud
pebble.com
Acquired & Gutted
“The beloved e-paper smartwatch pioneer that Fitbit bought for scraps and turned off the servers.”
$40M Raised (Fitbit acquired assets for $23M)
Kickstarter Record Holder ($20M) • 2M+ Watches Sold
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