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

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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% (283)

275 of 664 dead services died after 2020 ↑ the pace is accelerating

551–600 of 664 dead services

#	Service	Company	Category	Cause of Death	Shut Down	Users	Funding
551	GetGlue	i.tv	Entertainment	Acquisition	2014	5M	$18M
552	Facebook Gifts	Facebook	E-commerce	Poor conversion	2014	Moderate	Internal
553	Tout	Tout	Video	Acquisition	2014	Low	$21M
554	Qik	Skype	Video	Acquisition	2014	Millions	Acquired
555	Whrrl	Groupon	Location	Acquisition	2014	Moderate	Acquired
556	GameStick	GameStick	Gaming	Poor adoption	2014	Low	$647K
557	Mad Catz MOJO	Mad Catz	Gaming	Poor adoption	2014	Low	Internal
558	Mog	Beats	Music	Beats Music	2014	Low	Acquired
559	Last.fm Radio	Last.fm	Music	Subscription ended	2014	Millions	CBS owned
560	Facebook Poke	Facebook	Mobile	Market failure	2014	Low	Internal
561	Facebook Offers	Facebook	Commerce	Low redemption	2014	Moderate	Internal
562	Facebook Email (messages)	Facebook	Email	Low adoption	2014	Moderate	Internal
563	Apple Aperture	Apple	Photography	Photos app	2014	Pro photographers	Internal
564	Radian6	Salesforce	Social Listening	Salesforce Marketing Cloud	2014	Enterprises	$326M acquisition
565	Buddy Media	Salesforce	Social	Marketing Cloud merger	2014	Enterprises	$689M acquisition
566	ExactTarget (brand)	Salesforce	Marketing	Rebranded Salesforce Marketing Cloud	2014	Enterprises	$2.5B acquisition
567	Ubuntu One	Canonical	Cloud Storage	Dropbox won	2014	Millions	Internal
568	Microsoft SkyDrive (brand)	Microsoft	Cloud Storage	Rebranded to OneDrive	2014	Millions	Internal
569	Isis Wallet (Softcard)	AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile	Fintech	Apple Pay/Google Pay	2014	Low	$100M+
570	Exec (tasks)	Exec	Services	Handybook acquisition	2014	Moderate	$1.6M
571	Nike+ FuelBand	Nike	Health	Fitbit/Apple Watch won	2014	Millions	Internal
572	Readmill	Dropbox	Reading	Acquisition	2014	Book lovers	$1.9M
573	Topsy (social analytics)	Apple	Analytics	Apple acquisition	2014	Marketers	$200M acquisition
574	PlayNomm (kids gaming)	PlayNomm	Gaming	Ran out of money	2014	Kids	$500K
575	Google Reader	Google	Content	Low priority	2013	30M	Internal
576	Everpix	Everpix Inc	Photos	Ran out of money	2013	55K paying	$2.3M
577	Windows Live Messenger	Microsoft	Chat	Skype merger	2013	100M	Internal
578	Posterous	Twitter	Blogging	Post-acquisition	2013	15M blogs	$20M
579	Sparrow	Google	Email	Acqui-hire	2013	100K+	$25M
580	iGoogle	Google	Portal	Mobile shift	2013	Millions	Internal
581	Bebo	Various	Social	Facebook won	2013	117M peak	$850M
582	Dopplr	Nokia	Travel	Acquisition	2013	Moderate	Acquired
583	Turntable.fm	Turntable	Music	Licensing costs	2013	Millions	$7.5M
584	Formspring	Spring.me	Q&A	Ran out of money	2013	30M	$14M
585	Google Latitude	Google	Location	Google+ merge	2013	Millions	Internal
586	Google Shopper	Google	Shopping	Low adoption	2013	Moderate	Internal
587	Xanga	Xanga	Blogging	Ran out of money	2013	40M peak	Bootstrapped
588	Boxee	Samsung	Media	Acquisition	2013	Moderate	$26.5M
589	Presently	Presently	News	Ran out of money	2013	Low	$2.1M
590	Wavii	Google	News	Acquisition	2013	Low	$30M
591	Summly	Yahoo	News	Yahoo News integration	2013	Low	$30M
592	Google Currents (2013)	Google	News	Google+ integration	2013	Moderate	Internal
593	Facebook Home	Facebook	Mobile	Poor adoption	2013	Low	Internal
594	Google Nexus Q	Google	Hardware	Product failure	2013	Low	Internal
595	BlackBerry OS	BlackBerry	Mobile	iOS/Android won	2013	Millions	Billions
596	Nokia Symbian	Nokia	Mobile	Market shift	2013	Millions	Billions
597	MSN TV (WebTV)	Microsoft	Streaming	Broadband killed it	2013	Millions peak	$425M
598	Facebook Questions	Facebook	Q&A	Low adoption	2013	Millions	Internal
599	Apple Maps (transit old)	Apple	Maps	Maps launch disaster reset	2013	Hundreds of millions	Internal
600	Nirvanix	Nirvanix	Cloud Storage	Bankruptcy	2013	Enterprises	$70M

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Last updated February 2026. Data from public sources.

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