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The Graveyard
Products that are actually gone. Every entry here is backed by a public source we can point at, reviewed by a human before it went live. Facts are kept separate from our read on what happened.
getpocket.com
Read-it-later done well, retired by its owner after more than a decade.
Artifact
artifact.news
An algorithmic news app from the Instagram founders that could not get big enough.
Google Domains
domains.google
A domain registrar customers trusted, sold out from under them.
Google Stadia
stadia.google.com
Cloud gaming from Google. The tech worked. The business did not.
FTX
ftx.com
A top crypto exchange that collapsed into bankruptcy in days.
Terra and LUNA
terra.money
An algorithmic stablecoin that de-pegged and wiped out tens of billions in days.
Quibi
quibi.com
Nearly two billion dollars raised, six months live, gone.
Wunderlist
wunderlist.com
A loved to-do app bought by Microsoft and switched off for a replacement.
Google+
plus.google.com
Google's attempt at a social network, folded into everything and wanted by almost nobody.
Inbox by Gmail
inbox.google.com
Google's better email client, killed once its best ideas were copied into Gmail.
Jawbone
jawbone.com
A fitness wearable pioneer that raised close to a billion dollars and liquidated.
Vine
vine.co
Six second video, huge culture, no revenue model.
Parse
parse.com
A backend-as-a-service thousands of apps were built on, then given one year to move.
Google Reader
google.com/reader
The RSS reader a generation depended on, retired for lack of a business case.
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