The Graveyard
They promised forever. They shut down anyway.
664 products that were shut down, sold, merged or replaced. Each entry lists the company, the year and what happened. Your infrastructure shouldn't depend on VC funding.
664
Dead Services
275
Discontinued since 2020
283
Killed by Big Tech
283
Killed by Big Tech
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% (283)
275 of 664 dead services died after 2020 ↑ the pace is accelerating
101–150 of 664 dead services
| # | Service | Category | Shut Down |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Intercom Articles (old) | Support | 2022 |
| 102 | ProdPad old | Product | 2022 |
| 103 | Heroku Free Tier | Development | 2022 |
| 104 | PagerDuty Rundeck (old) | DevOps | 2022 |
| 105 | Pardot (brand) | Marketing | 2022 |
| 106 | Peoplefluent (brand shift) | HR | 2022 |
| 107 | Lever Nurture (standalone) | Recruiting | 2022 |
| 108 | Jobvite Hire (separate brand) | Recruiting | 2022 |
| 109 | Carbonite Safe (old brand) | Backup | 2022 |
| 110 | Facebook Pay (rebranded) | Fintech | 2022 |
| 111 | Oscar Health small business | Health | 2022 |
| 112 | Medium Partner Program (paywall-only era) | Publishing | 2022 |
| 113 | Academica (Edmodo rebrand) | EdTech | 2022 |
| 114 | Edmodo | EdTech | 2022 |
| 115 | Schoology (pre-PowerSchool era) | EdTech | 2022 |
| 116 | WhatsApp for Web old (no phone) | Messaging | 2022 |
| 117 | Slack Free unlimited history | Collaboration | 2022 |
| 118 | Zoom Free 40-min rule (COVID era perm) | Video Call | 2022 |
| 119 | Snapchat Spectacles v1-v3 | Hardware | 2022 |
| 120 | Clubhouse (peak era) | Audio | 2022 |
| 121 | Rec Room Enterprise | VR | 2022 |
| 122 | Coinbase Commerce old API | Fintech | 2022 |
| 123 | Solana Serum DEX | Crypto | 2022 |
| 124 | Terra/Luna (LUNC) | Crypto | 2022 |
| 125 | FTX Exchange | Fintech | 2022 |
| 126 | Celsius Network | Fintech | 2022 |
| 127 | Voyager Digital | Fintech | 2022 |
| 128 | BlockFi | Fintech | 2022 |
| 129 | Axie Infinity (peak) | Gaming/NFT | 2022 |
| 130 | StepN (peak) | Crypto | 2022 |
| 131 | Acquisio | AdTech | 2022 |
| 132 | Cloud Foundry Pivotal (brand) | Development | 2022 |
| 133 | CodeAnywhere old | Development | 2022 |
| 134 | Algorithmia standalone | AI/ML | 2022 |
| 135 | Weights & Biases old | AI/ML | 2022 |
| 136 | Adalo free tier (old) | Development | 2022 |
| 137 | Airtable free unlimited rows (old) | Productivity | 2022 |
| 138 | Coda free old limits | Productivity | 2022 |
| 139 | Canva Pro trial unlimited (old) | Design | 2022 |
| 140 | Yesware old brand | Sales | 2022 |
| 141 | Clari Discover old | Sales | 2022 |
| 142 | Chorus.ai (standalone brand) | Sales | 2022 |
| 143 | SalesLoft Cadence old | Sales | 2022 |
| 144 | Jimdo Dolphin (old) | Web | 2022 |
| 145 | Bitsbox (coding subscription) | Education | 2022 |
| 146 | Vero (surge-then-decline) | Social | 2022 |
| 147 | Mastodon.social free unlimited (old) | Social | 2022 |
| 148 | Caffeine.tv (wide launch) | Streaming | 2022 |
| 149 | Byte (app) | Video | 2022 |
| 150 | Firework (B2C app) | Video | 2022 |
The Alternative
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This list is incomplete and will never be finished. New services die every month.
Last updated February 2026. Data from public sources.