The Graveyard

They promised forever. They shut down anyway.

665 dead services. 2B+ affected users. $30B+ burned. Your infrastructure shouldn't depend on VC funding.

665

Dead Services

2B+

Users Lost

$30B+

Funding Burned

284

Killed by Big Tech

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Causes of Death

Killed via Acquisition Bought, integrated, shut down.

11% (70)

Ran Out of Money VC pulled out. Startup dead.

6% (43)

Killed by Big Tech Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Twitter …

43% (284)

276 of 665 dead services died after 2020 ↑ the pace is accelerating

501–550 of 665 dead services

#	Service	Company	Category	Cause of Death	Shut Down	Users	Funding
501	OneNote standalone (paid)	Microsoft	Productivity	Made fully free	2016	Millions	Internal
502	Skully Helmets	Skully	Hardware	Founder fraud/bankruptcy	2016	Bikers	$14.9M
503	Mailbox	Dropbox	Email	Post-acquisition kill	2015	Millions	$100M
504	Rdio	Rdio Inc	Music	Bankruptcy	2015	Millions	$125M
505	FriendFeed	Facebook	Social	Acquisition	2015	Millions	$50M
506	Zune	Microsoft	Music	iPod dominance	2015	Millions	Billions
507	Google Helpouts	Google	Services	Low adoption	2015	Moderate	Internal
508	Grooveshark	Grooveshark	Music	Legal issues	2015	35M	Bootstrapped
509	Skitch	Evernote	Screenshots	Feature reduction	2015	Millions	Acquired
510	Storehouse	Storehouse	Visual	Funding dried up	2015	Moderate	$4M
511	Yahoo Pipes	Yahoo	Automation	Yahoo decline	2015	Moderate	Internal
512	Prismatic	Prismatic	Content	Acquisition pivot	2015	Moderate	$13M
513	Zite	Flipboard	Content	Acquisition	2015	Millions	Acquired
514	Circa News	Circa	News	Ran out of money	2015	Moderate	$6.1M
515	Google Flu Trends	Google	Data	Inaccurate	2015	Researchers	Internal
516	Google Glass	Google	Hardware	Privacy concerns	2015	Explorers	Billions
517	Amazon Fire Phone	Amazon	Mobile	Market failure	2015	Low	Hundreds of millions
518	Quirky Wink	Quirky	IoT	Bankruptcy	2015	Moderate	$175M
519	OnLive	OnLive	Gaming	Acquisition shutdown	2015	Low	$1.1B
520	Gaikai	Sony	Gaming	PS Now integration	2015	Moderate	$380M
521	Ouya	Ouya	Gaming	Market failure	2015	63K backers	$8.6M
522	Microsoft Zune Music	Microsoft	Music	Groove replacement	2015	Moderate	Internal
523	Beats Music	Apple/Beats	Music	Apple Music	2015	Moderate	$3B acquisition
524	Xbox Music	Microsoft	Music	Groove rebranding	2015	Moderate	Internal
525	Rdio Select	Rdio	Music	Company shutdown	2015	Low	$125M
526	Facebook Slingshot	Facebook	Mobile	Failed to compete	2015	Low	Internal
527	Facebook Rooms	Facebook	Mobile	Poor adoption	2015	Low	Internal
528	Microsoft Lync	Microsoft	Collaboration	Rebranded to Skype for Business	2015	Enterprises	Internal
529	Amazon Local	Amazon	Commerce	Groupon competition	2015	Moderate	Internal
530	Amazon Destinations	Amazon	Travel	Booking.com won	2015	Low	Internal
531	Amazon Register	Amazon	POS	Square won	2015	Low	Internal
532	Amazon Walk-in Tech Support	Amazon	Services	Fire Phone failure	2015	Low	Internal
533	RelateIQ	Salesforce	CRM	SalesforceIQ merger	2015	SMBs	$393M acquisition
534	Bizo	LinkedIn	B2B Marketing	LinkedIn Marketing Solutions	2015	Advertisers	$175M acquisition
535	Homejoy	Homejoy	Services	Worker classification lawsuits	2015	Home owners	$40M
536	Zirtual	Zirtual	Services	Ran out of money	2015	Professionals	$5.5M
537	Sidecar (ridesharing)	Sidecar	Transportation	Uber/Lyft won	2015	Rideshare users	$35M
538	WillCall (tickets)	WillCall	Entertainment	Pandora acquisition	2015	Concert goers	$4.5M
539	Rap Genius (full social)	Genius	Content	Google penalty + pivot	2015	Millions	$56.9M
540	Blip.tv	Blip	Video	Maker Studios acquisition	2015	Moderate	$16M
541	Learnist	Learnist	EdTech	Ran out of money	2015	Moderate	$9M
542	Google Talk (XMPP)	Google	Chat	Hangouts replaced	2015	Millions	Internal
543	Nitrous.IO	Nitrous	Development	Ran out of money	2015	Developers	$6.4M
544	Secret (anonymous social)	Secret	Social	Shut down by founders	2015	Moderate	$35M
545	Orkut	Google	Social	Facebook dominance	2014	300M peak	Internal
546	Aereo	Aereo Inc	Streaming	Legal ruling	2014	100K+	$97M
547	Bump	Google	File Sharing	Acquisition	2014	100M downloads	Acquired
548	Branch	Facebook	Conversation	Acquisition	2014	Moderate	$15M
549	Viddy	Fullscreen	Video	Instagram Video	2014	50M	$30M
550	Google Schemer	Google	Activities	Low adoption	2014	Low	Internal

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Last updated February 2026. Data from public sources.

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