The side project cemetery

Your side project deserves a proper funeral.

Give the app you stopped building a permanent obituary. Tell the honest story, preserve its link, and send curious visitors toward whatever you build next.

Pay your respects ↓

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10 community obituaries

14,687 build hours documented

1 rose left by visitors

The weekly honors · Sep 7 to Sep 13

Five builds worth celebrating.

Reads, shares, roses and permanent adornments all move a community project up the board. The register resets every Monday at midnight UTC.

  1. Most celebrated this weekLogologyBuilt by Dagobert Renouf and Lucie Baratte13interactions0goodies13weekly honors
  2. SaveyondBuilt by Rares9interactions0goodies9weekly honors
  3. FreeflowBuilt by imsankz5interactions0goodies5weekly honors
  4. Accountant Jr.Built by coFounder4interactions0goodies4weekly honors
  5. 一个有空间的跳骚市场Built by Bernd3interactions0goodies3weekly honors
How honors are countedRead+1Share+2Rose+3Adornment+5

Postmortems without the posturing

Dead projects tell the truth.

Launch posts celebrate beginnings. Obituaries explain the ending: the false signal, the habit that would not change, the distribution that never arrived. That honesty gives the next builder a head start.

The community commonplace book

Most stolen lessons.

Copied because another founder plans to use them. Repeat clicks are filtered, so the ranking rewards lessons worth keeping.

  1. A clever engine is not the product. Start with one narrow naming problem, use trusted real-world data, and prove that users love the output before adding modes, metrics, platforms, and polish.

    IdentoBuilt by Sean, solo founder

    29times stolen
  2. Don't build a startup with your spouse, family, or best friend. Startup stress bleeds into everything. If your co-founder is also who you lean on to recover, you can lose both the company and the relationship.

    LogologyBuilt by Dagobert Renouf and Lucie Baratte

    17times stolen
  3. Spreadsheets are sometimes the answer

    SaveyondBuilt by Rares

    8times stolen
  4. Build the audience before you build the product. The best thing in the world dies alone with no one to show it to. Especially if what you built asks people to step outside their comfort zone.

    The Square IsBuilt by AMD

    3times stolen
  5. Guardrails are very important esp when working with automated online coaching, and also to really understand that there are somethings you cannot replace with a human coach when it comes to observing behaviour

    BeAgileBuilt by Aniel, solofounder

    3times stolen

The grounds

Recently laid to rest

12 years of community ambition, now composting into better ideas.

Browse the case files

Every ending

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FundingDistribution
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Burnout
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Editorial obituary20182023
BurnoutCofounder
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A plot is waiting

Have a project that deserves closure?

The funeral arrangement

Closure is free forever.

And a surprisingly good introduction to whatever you are building next.

  1. 01

    Write the obituary

    Name the project, cause of death and the lesson worth keeping.

  2. 02

    Choose the mourners

    Add friends, family and former co-workers to a private BCC guest list.

  3. 03

    Pass review

    The groundskeeper verifies the author, links and story before opening the plot.

Stop paying its hosting bill

Let it go beautifully.

Keep the lesson. Lose the guilt. Give your abandoned project one last launch, and your next one a little traffic.