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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Here lies

Atrium

2017 – 2020

“It tried to turn lawyers into software. The lawyers remained the product.”

Public postmortem75 roses left
This plot has 1 paid adornment.

4 public postmortems

166,440 hours above ground

466 ceremonial roses

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 grounds

Recently laid to rest

Four public failures. Four founders who kept building. Community obituaries will appear ahead of them.

Public postmortem2017 – 2020
75 roses left
Public postmortem2008 – 2018
84 roses left
Public postmortem2012 – 2014
97 roses left
Public postmortem2012 – 2016
210 roses left

A plot is waiting

Have a project that deserves closure?

The funeral arrangement

Twelve dollars buys closure.

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

    Open the plot

    Pay once through Polar, publish the memorial, then send the prepared funeral notice.

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.