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

551–600 of 665 dead services

#	Service	Company	Category	Cause of Death	Shut Down	Users	Funding
551	Springpad	Springpad	Notes	Ran out of money	2014	Millions	$9.5M
552	GetGlue	i.tv	Entertainment	Acquisition	2014	5M	$18M
553	Facebook Gifts	Facebook	E-commerce	Poor conversion	2014	Moderate	Internal
554	Tout	Tout	Video	Acquisition	2014	Low	$21M
555	Qik	Skype	Video	Acquisition	2014	Millions	Acquired
556	Whrrl	Groupon	Location	Acquisition	2014	Moderate	Acquired
557	GameStick	GameStick	Gaming	Poor adoption	2014	Low	$647K
558	Mad Catz MOJO	Mad Catz	Gaming	Poor adoption	2014	Low	Internal
559	Mog	Beats	Music	Beats Music	2014	Low	Acquired
560	Last.fm Radio	Last.fm	Music	Subscription ended	2014	Millions	CBS owned
561	Facebook Poke	Facebook	Mobile	Market failure	2014	Low	Internal
562	Facebook Offers	Facebook	Commerce	Low redemption	2014	Moderate	Internal
563	Facebook Email (messages)	Facebook	Email	Low adoption	2014	Moderate	Internal
564	Apple Aperture	Apple	Photography	Photos app	2014	Pro photographers	Internal
565	Radian6	Salesforce	Social Listening	Salesforce Marketing Cloud	2014	Enterprises	$326M acquisition
566	Buddy Media	Salesforce	Social	Marketing Cloud merger	2014	Enterprises	$689M acquisition
567	ExactTarget (brand)	Salesforce	Marketing	Rebranded Salesforce Marketing Cloud	2014	Enterprises	$2.5B acquisition
568	Ubuntu One	Canonical	Cloud Storage	Dropbox won	2014	Millions	Internal
569	Microsoft SkyDrive (brand)	Microsoft	Cloud Storage	Rebranded to OneDrive	2014	Millions	Internal
570	Isis Wallet (Softcard)	AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile	Fintech	Apple Pay/Google Pay	2014	Low	$100M+
571	Exec (tasks)	Exec	Services	Handybook acquisition	2014	Moderate	$1.6M
572	Nike+ FuelBand	Nike	Health	Fitbit/Apple Watch won	2014	Millions	Internal
573	Readmill	Dropbox	Reading	Acquisition	2014	Book lovers	$1.9M
574	Topsy (social analytics)	Apple	Analytics	Apple acquisition	2014	Marketers	$200M acquisition
575	PlayNomm (kids gaming)	PlayNomm	Gaming	Ran out of money	2014	Kids	$500K
576	Google Reader	Google	Content	Low priority	2013	30M	Internal
577	Everpix	Everpix Inc	Photos	Ran out of money	2013	55K paying	$2.3M
578	Windows Live Messenger	Microsoft	Chat	Skype merger	2013	100M	Internal
579	Posterous	Twitter	Blogging	Post-acquisition	2013	15M blogs	$20M
580	Sparrow	Google	Email	Acqui-hire	2013	100K+	$25M
581	iGoogle	Google	Portal	Mobile shift	2013	Millions	Internal
582	Bebo	Various	Social	Facebook won	2013	117M peak	$850M
583	Dopplr	Nokia	Travel	Acquisition	2013	Moderate	Acquired
584	Turntable.fm	Turntable	Music	Licensing costs	2013	Millions	$7.5M
585	Formspring	Spring.me	Q&A	Ran out of money	2013	30M	$14M
586	Google Latitude	Google	Location	Google+ merge	2013	Millions	Internal
587	Google Shopper	Google	Shopping	Low adoption	2013	Moderate	Internal
588	Xanga	Xanga	Blogging	Ran out of money	2013	40M peak	Bootstrapped
589	Boxee	Samsung	Media	Acquisition	2013	Moderate	$26.5M
590	Presently	Presently	News	Ran out of money	2013	Low	$2.1M
591	Wavii	Google	News	Acquisition	2013	Low	$30M
592	Summly	Yahoo	News	Yahoo News integration	2013	Low	$30M
593	Google Currents (2013)	Google	News	Google+ integration	2013	Moderate	Internal
594	Facebook Home	Facebook	Mobile	Poor adoption	2013	Low	Internal
595	Google Nexus Q	Google	Hardware	Product failure	2013	Low	Internal
596	BlackBerry OS	BlackBerry	Mobile	iOS/Android won	2013	Millions	Billions
597	Nokia Symbian	Nokia	Mobile	Market shift	2013	Millions	Billions
598	MSN TV (WebTV)	Microsoft	Streaming	Broadband killed it	2013	Millions peak	$425M
599	Facebook Questions	Facebook	Q&A	Low adoption	2013	Millions	Internal
600	Apple Maps (transit old)	Apple	Maps	Maps launch disaster reset	2013	Hundreds of millions	Internal

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Last updated February 2026. Data from public sources.

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