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

351–400 of 664 dead services

#	Service	Company	Category	Cause of Death	Shut Down	Users	Funding
351	Adobe Slate	Adobe	Visual	Strategy change	2018	Moderate	Internal
352	Adobe Voice	Adobe	Video	Strategy change	2018	Moderate	Internal
353	Tizen OS	Samsung	Mobile	Android won	2018	Low	Millions
354	Steam Machines	Valve	Gaming	Market failure	2018	Low	Internal
355	Go90	Verizon	Streaming	Poor adoption	2018	Low	$1.2B+
356	FilmStruck	Warner Bros	Streaming	Business decision	2018	Moderate	Internal
357	Shots	Shots	Social	Ran out of money	2018	Moderate	$16.5M
358	Ello	Ello	Social	Pivoted to creators	2018	Moderate	$11M
359	Zomato Base	Zomato	SaaS	Shut down after acquisition	2018	Moderate	Acquired
360	Buffer Pablo	Buffer	Design	Canva won	2018	Moderate	Internal
361	Google Goggles	Google	AI	Google Lens replaced it	2018	Millions	Internal
362	Google Play Newsstand	Google	News	Google News replaced it	2018	Millions	Internal
363	Google Nearby Notifications	Google	Mobile	Spam abuse	2018	Millions	Internal
364	Microsoft Groove Music	Microsoft	Music	Spotify partnership	2018	Millions	Internal
365	Azure DevOps (VSTS era)	Microsoft	Development	Rebranded to Azure DevOps	2018	Developers	Internal
366	Tumblr NSFW content	Verizon/Yahoo	Social	App Store violations	2018	Millions	$1.1B acquisition
367	Desk.com	Salesforce	Support	Salesforce Service Cloud	2018	SMBs	$50M acquisition
368	Eloqua (Oracle brand rebuild)	Oracle	Marketing	Oracle Marketing Cloud rebrand	2018	Enterprises	$871M acquisition
369	Taleo (standalone)	Oracle	HR	Oracle HCM Cloud	2018	Enterprises	$1.9B acquisition
370	LevelUp	Grubhub	Fintech	Acquisition shutdown	2018	Low	$35M
371	Fancy (e-commerce)	Fancy	E-commerce	Amazon won	2018	Moderate	$55M
372	Shyp	Shyp	Logistics	Unit economics failure	2018	Urban users	$62.1M
373	Parking Panda	Parking Panda	Transportation	Acquisition	2018	Commuters	$7.5M
374	Instapaper (paid)	Pinterest	Content	Reverted to free	2018	Millions	Acquired
375	Revision3	Discovery	Video	Discovery Digital merger	2018	Moderate	$35M acquisition
376	Defy Media	Defy Media	Video	Ran out of money	2018	Millions	$70M
377	Flipboard Video	Flipboard	Video	Low adoption	2018	Moderate	$210M+
378	Bloomboard	Bloomboard	EdTech	Market fit issues	2018	Teachers	$7.5M
379	Cisco Spark	Cisco	Collaboration	Rebranded Webex Teams	2018	Enterprises	Internal
380	Gnip (standalone)	Twitter	Data	Twitter API rebrand	2018	Data companies	$134M acquisition
381	DataSift	DataSift	Data	Twitter partnership ended	2018	Enterprises	$67M
382	Badgeville	Badgeville	Gamification	Acquisition shutdown	2018	Enterprises	$26M
383	Rocket Fuel (brand)	Sizmek	AdTech	Acquisition + bankruptcy	2018	Advertisers	$176M IPO
384	IBM Bluemix (brand)	IBM	Cloud	IBM Cloud rebrand	2018	Developers	Internal
385	Apigee (standalone brand)	Google	Development	Google Cloud API Management	2018	Enterprises	$625M acquisition
386	Koding.com (free cloud)	Koding	Development	Business model failure	2018	Developers	$20M
387	Codenvy	Red Hat	Development	Red Hat migration to Che	2018	Developers	$16M
388	BigML free unlimited	BigML	AI/ML	Pricing change	2018	Data scientists	$4M
389	Datahug	Salesforce	Sales	Salesforce acquisition	2018	Sales teams	$8.6M
390	Wikispaces	Wikispaces	Education	Ran out of money	2018	Millions	Bootstrapped
391	Adobe Muse	Adobe	Web	Market too niche	2018	Web designers	Internal
392	Weebly free SSL (old)	Square	Web	Acquisition migration	2018	SMBs	$35M acquisition
393	Theranos (app/product)	Theranos	Healthcare	Fraud + shutdown	2018	Patients	$945M
394	Bodega (startup)	Bodega	Retail	Cultural backlash	2018	Low	$2.5M
395	After School app	After School	Social	Acquisition pivot	2018	Teens	$12.5M
396	tbh (teens)	Facebook	Social	Acquisition shutdown	2018	5M	Acquired
397	Sarahah	Sarahah	Social	App store removal	2018	Hundreds of millions	Bootstrapped
398	Parse	Facebook	Backend	Strategic shift	2017	600K+ devs	$85M
399	Fabric	Twitter	Analytics	Acquisition shutdown	2017	580K apps	$100M+
400	Vine	Twitter	Video	No monetization	2017	200M	$30M

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Last updated February 2026. Data from public sources.

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