Death Anniversaries

every grave in this cemetery, by year of death. the newest years are here, older ones have their own pages.

on this page: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016
older years: 2015 · 2014 · 2013 · 2012 · 2011 · 2010 · 2005-2009 · 2000-2004 · 1990s · before 1990

~ 2026 ~

1 Jan 2026 Napster (streaming) — the napster brand had a long second life as a streaming service. roxio bought the corpse in 2002 and launched napster 2.0 in october 2003 as a paid mu
1 Jan 2026 Steam for Chromebooks — steam for chromebooks was a four-year beta. google and valve ran the borealis project from march 2022 to january 2026, putting a native steam client i
Jan 2026 Asus ZenFone — asus announced the first zenfones at CES in january 2014 and spent twelve years never quite getting to scale. the line's best years were 2021 to 2023,
2026 Snapzu — in july 2015 reddit's moderators shut their boards in protest and a few thousand people went looking for somewhere else to post. snapzu was one of the
12 Jan 2026 Anthem — anthem was bioware's bid at a destiny-style looter-shooter, built on an engine the studio could not bend, shipped in february 2019 in a state that cri
13 Jan 2026 EyeEm — eyeem was the berlin photo marketplace and community that spent a decade positioning itself as the european alternative to instagram for the mobile-fi
20 Jan 2026 The Sims Mobile — the sims mobile was ea's free-to-play phone version of the sims 4. it shipped worldwide in march 2018, topped the app store for a week, spent its eigh
20 Jan 2026 Maxmodels.pl — marcin tymkowski built a portfolio site for polish models and the photographers who wanted to shoot them, interia bought it inside two years and kept
30 Jan 2026 NBA Live 19 — nba live 19 was the 22nd and final installment of ea's basketball series, released september 7, 2018 on ps4 and xbox one. it was developed by ea tibur
30 Jan 2026 Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers — ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents bought two vouchers, each one redeemable for a full-price nintendo switch game off an approved list, which c
30 Jan 2026 Keri-hime Sweets — gungho ran this for thirteen years and two months, which makes it one of the longest-lived japanese phone games anybody has switched off. the notice w
31 Jan 2026 Belkin Wemo (cloud) — belkin wemo was the smart-home line that launched at ces 2012 with a wifi smart plug and a motion sensor. it ran on belkin's own cloud for fourteen ye
31 Jan 2026 Ready Player Me — ready player me was the closest anyone came to an avatar you owned rather than rented. you built a face once, and developers wired it into their own g
31 Jan 2026 ShopRunner — seventy-nine dollars a year, chosen because that was the number amazon charged for prime, spread across a hundred other people's stores instead of one
1 Feb 2026 Amazon Fresh (physical stores) — amazon fresh's physical grocery chain opened its first store in september 2020 in woodland hills, los angeles. by 2022 the chain had 38 us stores plus
3 Feb 2026 Survival Quiz CITY — bandai namco studios set up an indie label in 2021 and this was the first thing out of it, a thirty-player quiz show where getting the answer wrong dr
4 Feb 2026 The World Factbook — the world factbook was an almanac the cia compiled about every country on earth, classified from 1962, unclassified from 1971, in print from 1975, and
16 Feb 2026 Setapp Mobile — macpaw launched setapp mobile in september 2024 as one of the first alternative ios app stores in the european union under the digital markets act. it
16 Feb 2026 Google Dark Web Report — google dark web report was a feature inside google one and later inside the standard google account that scanned dark web sources for your email addre
16 Feb 2026 UniversCiné — about fifty independent french producers and distributors owned this one between them, which made it the rarest thing in video on demand: a store run
17 Feb 2026 ZeroLend — zerolend was a decentralized lending protocol launched in early 2023 as a friendly fork of aave, initially deployed on linea (the zk-rollup bootstrapp
20 Feb 2026 Amazon Chime — in september 2015 amazon absorbed a san francisco conferencing startup through a shell company and told nobody. what came out of it in february 2017 w
24 Feb 2026 Project CARS 3 — electronic arts canceled the franchise in november 2022, more than three years before anyone switched the servers off. project cars 3 shipped in augus
25 Feb 2026 goo Mail — goo mail opened in 1998 as a free mailbox on ntt's goo portal, and by 2008 it was the second most used webmail in japan behind yahoo. a redesign in ma
25 Feb 2026 Supervive — 47,913 people were playing supervive on steam on 24 november 2024, four days after the open beta opened. a hundred and twenty six million dollars of v
28 Feb 2026 Narinari.com — ikeda ran it alone for the first three and a half years, posting under a handle borrowed from a cartoon robot and ending every news item the way that
Mar 2026 HubPages — hubpages was the 2006 paul edmondson content platform that paid amateur writers a cut of adsense and amazon affiliate revenue per article. it grew to
Mar 2026 Jeeran — omar koudsi and laith zraikat started jeeran in amman in 2000, handing out free homepages when there was almost nothing on the web in arabic to put on
1 Mar 2026 Blog.hr — dario markuš, an it journalist, started blog.hr in may 2004 and it became the place croatians kept their diaries for the next two decades. nova tv too
Mar 2026 Archiwum Allegro — every allegro listing that ended more than sixty days ago fell into the archive, and had done since 2013, which made the thing a price history of a wh
1 Mar 2026 ArcMap — on 1 march 2026 esri switched off the application that had been the default way to look at a map on a work computer since the last week of 1999. it ar
4 Mar 2026 YggTorrent — on the night of 3 to 4 march 2026 a hacker calling himself gr0lum deleted ygg's servers, and the largest french-language torrent tracker on the intern
9 Mar 2026 Microsoft Lens — microsoft lens was the office team's document scanner. it started as office lens on march 17 2014 for windows phone, then expanded to ios and android
13 Mar 2026 OpenAI Sora 1 — sora 1 was openai's first text-to-video product. the research preview landed 15 february 2024, the public sora turbo release dropped on 9 december 202
13 Mar 2026 HiAnime — hianime closed itself on 13 march 2026 with a goodbye message and no explanation, ending an operation that had already run under two other names. in i
17 Mar 2026 Powerful Pro Baseball: Eikan Nine Crossroad — konami spun the most played mode in its baseball series out into a free phone game, put it on switch and playstation 4 as well, then cut both consoles
19 Mar 2026 Real Racing 3 — real racing 3 was ea and firemonkeys' mobile racing flagship. it shipped february 2013 with licensed cars from porsche to bugatti and ran for thirteen
19 Mar 2026 Chtyvo — at 13:34 gmt on 19 march 2026 a twenty-year-old ukrainian library replaced itself with a thank-you note. the day before, chtyvo.org.ua was still servi
26 Mar 2026 Mac Pro — wwdc, 7 august 2006, and the mac pro arrived as the last mac to leave powerpc, wearing the power mac g5's aluminum case with a couple of extra drive b
27 Mar 2026 Clockwise — seventy six million dollars and nearly a decade went into clockwise, an ai calendar that shuffled meetings around to protect blocks of focus time at c
31 Mar 2026 i-mode — i-mode was the closest thing the world had to a smartphone before there was a smartphone. ntt docomo launched it in february 1999 in japan as a manage
31 Mar 2026 Yupp AI — yupp was a crowdsourced ai model-picker site launched in late 2024 by pankaj gupta and gilad mishne, both ex-linkedin. users could run the same prompt
31 Mar 2026 Myrient — myrient was 390 terabytes of verified game preservation sets served over plain http by one administrator, with no account and no queue and no torrent
31 Mar 2026 Drop (Massdrop) — massdrop launched in 2012 to fix something forums were bad at, which was organizing a group buy that actually arrived. enough people committing to one
31 Mar 2026 jig Browser — jig.jp shipped it in october 2004 and so many people came for the download that the servers fell over and the company had to put new users on a waitin
1 Apr 2026 WWE Network — wwe put its entire pay-per-view catalog and every live event behind one $9.99 monthly subscription on february 24, 2014, at a moment when a single ppv
2 Apr 2026 ZAC Browser — john lesieur wrote it for one child. his grandson zack was diagnosed with autism at three and could get nowhere with an ordinary browser, so lesieur,
4 Apr 2026 StatHat — patrick crosby was okcupid's cto when he started stathat in 2011, a service that took a number out of your code and drew you a graph of it. the go tea
9 Apr 2026 King of Meat — amazon games was aiming at a hundred thousand people playing king of meat at the same time. the steam peak was three hundred and twenty. glowmade, a g
13 Apr 2026 Pocket Mortys — pocket mortys was a pokemon parody with enough licensing muscle to say so out loud. you played rick c-123. you caught wild mortys with manipulation ch
15 Apr 2026 Foundation — the designer-favorite ethereum nft marketplace ran the second curated wave of digital art from 2021 onward. blackdove agreed to buy it in january 2026
Apr 2026 Messenger.com — messenger.com was the standalone web client for facebook's chat product, spun out from facebook chat in 2015 and folded back into facebook.com eleven
17 Apr 2026 Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile — fifty million people pre-registered before launch and the game earned 2.2 million dollars across its entire life. call of duty: warzone mobile shipped
23 Apr 2026 Utawarerumono: Lost Flag — two months of notice, and the last eleven days of it carried a promise. on 12 april 2026 aquaplus said it was considering a story archive for lost fla
24 Apr 2026 Tripod.com — tripod started in 1992 at williams college and launched the consumer free-hosting product in 1995, with bo peabody and dick sabot as the founders. lyc
27 Apr 2026 Newtoki / Manatoki / Booktoki — the largest illegal korean webtoon piracy hub and its two sister sites. ran from 2018 to april 27, 2026, killed by an operator who saw the emergency b
27 Apr 2026 DLive — dlive was the blockchain-livestreaming platform charles wayn and cole chen launched in december 2017 as a twitch alternative on the steemit chain. it
28 Apr 2026 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt — about six hundred people a day were still turning up when sharkmob called it. the studio in malmo had taken world of darkness, a tabletop setting buil
30 Apr 2026 EliteSingles — elitesingles was the berlin company affinitas spinning out their eDarling formula in english. it launched in 2013, targeting university-educated profe
30 Apr 2026 Infowars — infowars ran out of austin, texas from 1999 and ended because of a defamation bill it could not pay. the families of the children killed at sandy hook
30 Apr 2026 Showmax — multichoice launched showmax in south africa on 19 august 2015 and by late 2023 it had more subscribers on the continent than netflix did. the rebuild
30 Apr 2026 ironSource Ads — four and a half billion dollars of unity stock bought ironsource in november 2022, and three and a half years later unity switched off the part of it
30 Apr 2026 Amara Public Workspace — for sixteen years anybody could paste a video url into one box and start typing captions for it, and what came out the other side was a public pool of
1 May 2026 Ask Jeeves — the search engine that let you type a question in plain english and pretended to understand. the mascot was a butler called jeeves. he had a top hat.
1 May 2026 360doc Personal Library — 360doc opened in 2005 as somewhere to clip an article you wanted to keep. twenty years later it held more than eighty million accounts and 1.1 billion
2 May 2026 Spirit Airlines — at 3 a.m. eastern on 2 may 2026 spirit stopped flying, and the last airplane in the yellow paint had already come down at dallas fort worth after midn
4 May 2026 Wikinews — wikinews was the wikimedia project where volunteers wrote original news reports instead of encyclopedia articles, which meant doing journalism by comm
4 May 2026 Project Mariner — google deepmind showed project mariner on december 11, 2024 as a chrome extension that took screenshots of your active tab, sent them to gemini, and c
4 May 2026 Robot Cache — $532. that is what the store made selling game software across the whole of 2024, according to its own report to investors. brian fargo founded robot
10 May 2026 AnimeKai — the largest pirate anime streaming site of early 2026. surfaced after hianime's march 2026 shutdown. died on may 10, 2026 after a fire at its data cen
15 May 2026 Turtle WoW — turtle wow started in 2018 with about a hundred people on one realm and grew into the largest classic+ server on the internet, running the 2006 versio
15 May 2026 Vega Conflict — it started in a browser tab in august 2013, a free-to-play space war on facebook where you built fleets, raided other players' outposts and waited out
22 May 2026 CBS News Radio — a memo on 20 march 2026 from bari weiss and tom cibrowski told the radio staff and about seven hundred affiliate stations that the service would end o
26 May 2026 Destruction AllStars — sony planned a seventy-dollar ps5 launch game about smashing cars into each other, then delayed it, then cut the price to twenty, then gave it away to
30 May 2026 X Communities — twitter announced communities at analyst day in february 2021 and started the beta on september 8 2021. it was meant to be a reddit-style topic forum
31 May 2026 Workplace by Meta — workplace launched on october 10, 2016 as facebook's bet that the office wanted its own facebook. it grew out of an internal collaboration tool the co
1 Jun 2026 Microsoft Sway — sway was microsoft's bet that the future of presentations was a single scrolling web page instead of a slide deck. the bet did not win. it sat in the
1 Jun 2026 Rec Room — rec room was the seattle vr-social platform that ran from 2016 to 2026. it raised about $289 million and hit a $3.5 billion peak valuation in december
1 Jun 2026 Juno Download — on monday 1 june 2026 the store simply stopped selling. twenty years of dance music downloads ended with no countdown and no closing sale, just a fare
Jun 2026 PunterNet — harriet harman asked arnold schwarzenegger to take this website down in 2009, which is the only reason most people in britain ever heard of it. punter
9 Jun 2026 Digilander — digilander was the free web space that came with an italian internet account, first from infostrada and then from libero, and for most of thirty years
11 Jun 2026 iSpot — on 27 june 2009 the open university put up a website where you could post a photograph of an insect and have somebody who knew insects tell you what i
15 Jun 2026 Horizon Worlds (Quest) — horizon worlds on the meta quest headset was zuckerberg's metaverse bet in its purest form, the vr social world the avatar selfie was supposed to sell
15 Jun 2026 Samsung Max VPN — samsung max was the data-saving vpn samsung shipped on galaxy phones from 2018 onward, born from the corpse of opera max after opera killed its data-s
19 Jun 2026 Fornjot — hanno braun spent almost six years alone on a boundary-representation cad kernel, funded by github sponsors who mostly gave him eight dollars a month.
26 Jun 2026 4Columns — ten years was the whole plan. a private foundation paid for four reviews a week, every friday, starting in september 2016, and the budget was scoped t
26 Jun 2026 ASTRA: Knights of Veda — hybe im was the games division of the company that manages bts, and this was the thing it built to prove it could publish. over three million people p
28 Jun 2026 Loopring — loopring was one of the first decentralized exchange protocols to bring zero-knowledge rollups to ethereum, founded in 2017 by daniel wang, a shanghai
28 Jun 2026 holoearth — three point one nine nine billion yen is what cover wrote off when it closed holoearth at nine in the evening on a sunday in june 2026. the hololive m
30 Jun 2026 Tenor API — the tenor api was the gif search endpoint that powered the discord picker, the whatsapp gif tab and a long bench of other chat clients. it grew out of
30 Jun 2026 Trovo — trovo was tencent's twitch competitor, launched july 2020 in the united states after a brief private beta under the name madcat. it opened with a repo
30 Jun 2026 The Elder Scrolls: Blades — bethesda's mobile elder scrolls spinoff launched in early access during 2018 and went 1.0 on may 12 2020. it ran first-person dungeons stitched togeth
30 Jun 2026 Kakao TV — kakao tv launched in june 2015 as the video layer inside the messenger every korean phone already had. it carried my little television, it absorbed da
30 Jun 2026 SAPO Blogs — sapo blogs was the free blog host attached to portugal's own portal, opened in november 2003 when publishing in portuguese meant either blogger or not
30 Jun 2026 Super! drama TV — for seventeen years it was called super channel and star trek ran on it without a single gap. the rename to super! drama tv in 2006 came with a new st
Jul 2026 Samsung Messages — samsung messages was the stock sms client samsung shipped on galaxy phones from the touchwiz era onward. samsung announced its end-of-service in early
1 Jul 2026 Microsoft 3D Viewer — 3d viewer arrived in the windows store on 11 march 2016 under the name view 3d. after two renames it shipped in the box with windows 10 as the place y
1 Jul 2026 ProHosting — across the top of free.prohosting.com, all through the 2000s, ran a line of text saying the company had hosted over 2,122,500 sites since 1996. that w
2 Jul 2026 Halalgoogling — on 9 july 2013 a search engine launched that did not index anything. it passed queries to google and bing, ran the answers through a filter for conten
3 Jul 2026 Binance NFT — binance nft launched 24 june 2021 as the largest centralized NFT marketplace by trading volume, at the top of the 2021-2022 NFT boom. it ran through t
9 Jul 2026 Botanix — botanix was a bitcoin layer-two network built by botanix labs, founded in june 2022 by belgian engineer willem schroé. the pitch was an evm-equivalent
14 Jul 2026 Microsoft SharePoint Designer — frontpage died in 2006 and left two children. expression web took the general web design work and died young. this one took sharepoint, and it survive
15 Jul 2026 TV Time — tv time started as tvshow time, a paris startup that shipped a tv-episode tracking app around 2012. an american company called whipclip acquired it in
15 Jul 2026 Nina Protocol — jack callahan and his two co-founders spent five years building the thing every musician says they want, a store where the artist keeps everything and
22 Jul 2026 BET+ — tyler perry owned a piece of this one, which is most of the reason it existed. bet+ launched on 19 september 2019 with his catalog as its spine and sp
27 Jul 2026 Wolfoo — a london judge gave a hanoi animation studio until four in the afternoon on 27 july 2026 to delete every video featuring a cartoon wolf, across every
28 Jul 2026 MindMeld — cisco paid $125 million in may 2017 for a conversational ai platform and open-sourced it two years after that. the code sat on github collecting 694 s
31 Jul 2026 DataLounge — datalounge opened in may 1995 as a gay web portal run out of new york and turned into an anonymous forum that outlasted almost everything it started a
31 Jul 2026 ShopStyle — nineteen years is a long run for a shopping search engine, and shopstyle spent most of them owned by somebody else. andy moss built a magazine-shaped
Aug 2026 HP Pavilion — a 75 mhz pentium and a pair of altec lansing speakers in a beige tower, sold on 14 august 1995 as the first computer hewlett-packard ever built for a
1 Aug 2026 Struckd — two founders in zurich shipped a phone app in july 2016 that let you assemble a 3d game by dragging pieces around, with no code anywhere in it. by apr
11 Aug 2026 Bloctel — a french law passed on 30 june 2025 made cold calling illegal without prior consent, which removed the reason for a do-not-call list to exist at all.
12 Aug 2026 Tokyo 7th Sisters — set in 2034, in a tokyo that had decided idols were finished. donuts ran it for twelve years and five months before announcing the end on 7 may 2026 a
13 Aug 2026 Crazy Arcade — crazy arcade opened in korea on 16 october 2001 with one mode: eight people in a small grid dropping water balloons on each other until one was left.
25 Aug 2026 Warface: Clutch — on 25 august 2026 my.games switched off the last console servers and the international warface was gone, thirteen years after its worldwide release an
31 Aug 2026 NFTfi — nftfi was the largest peer-to-peer nft-collateralized lending platform on ethereum, launched in may 2020 by stephen young out of cape town, south afri
31 Aug 2026 Manifest V2 — google took seven years to remove the interface that let a browser extension look at a network request and refuse to make it. manifest v2 was the form
31 Aug 2026 NetEase CC — hangzhou, december 2009: netease's research institute shipped a voice client for gamers because yy and is had already proved the market would install
31 Aug 2026 Trinket — three and a half million people wrote fifty million programs inside it, and on 31 august 2026 every one of those programs became unreachable on the sa
1 Sep 2026 Let It Die — the apocalypse in this game is dated 2026, and 2026 is when the servers went off. let it die dropped you at the bottom of a tower on a drowned piece o
4 Sep 2026 Google Assistant — a billion devices had it installed and about five hundred million people used it every month. google announced in august 2026 that it would be discont
6 Sep 2026 Autistici/Inventati — for twenty five years an italian volunteer collective ran free email and blog hosting for people the police were interested in, and it survived every
14 Sep 2026 Relay.app — every automation product in 2023 was selling the removal of people from the loop. relay.app sold putting one back in: a workflow that stopped, waited
15 Sep 2026 Columbia House — seventy-one years, sixteen million members at the top, and the whole thing ran on one piece of arithmetic: twelve albums for a penny, then a fixed num
16 Sep 2026 Sina Cloud — november 2009, six months after google app engine opened to the public, sina shipped the first alpha of sina app engine and china had a platform-as-a-
29 Sep 2026 World Dai Star: Yume no Stellarium — on 17 july 2026 kms posted the notice, nine days short of the game's third birthday. yumesute was the game arm of a bandai namco filmworks project abo
30 Sep 2026 Amazon Mechanical Turk — twenty-one years of piecework, named after a fake. amazon posted the closure notice on its own homepage on 25 august 2026 and gave everyone five weeks
30 Sep 2026 Zapytaj Onet — poland's largest question and answer site took its last question on 21 september 2026 and switched off nine days later. zapytaj had been running since
30 Sep 2026 bokete — eighteen years of people writing one line under somebody else's photograph, and the counter went past a hundred million of those lines. bokete did not
30 Sep 2026 PHOTOHITO — kakaku.com runs japan's price comparison site, and in february 2008 it hung a photo community off the camera half of its own database. for eighteen ye
30 Sep 2026 Naver TV — by march 2026 youtube was taking about half of all the time koreans spent in entertainment apps, 50 million of them, 44 hours each a month. naver tv h
30 Sep 2026 Mario Kart Tour — 276 million downloads over seven years, and an estimated 268.5 million dollars, which works out to under a dollar a head. that was mario kart tour, ni
30 Sep 2026 LINE VOOM — japan does not use whatsapp, it uses line, and for five years one of the four tabs at the bottom of that app was a tiktok. line voom replaced the frie
30 Sep 2026 Luminary — one hundred million dollars of venture capital went into a paid app for a medium whose whole distribution model was free and open. luminary launched o
9 Oct 2026 Star Conflict — fourteen years, which is the number gaijin kept returning to in its goodbye letter. star conflict opened in beta in july 2012 and switched its servers
13 Oct 2026 Microsoft Publisher — microsoft's cheap desktop-publishing app for anyone who was not a designer. it shipped alongside word and excel in office starting 1991, taught a gene

~ 2025 ~

2025 WhiteHat Jr — whitehat jr was an india-based kids' coding tutor platform founded in november 2018 by karan bajaj, ex-ceo of discovery networks india. it sold 1:1 on
2025 Netverse — netverse was a television station trying to keep the audience it already had instead of renting it back from youtube. net tv owned the shows and the f
2025 Krugosvet — collier's encyclopedia stopped being printed in the united states in 1998. two years later its twenty four volumes turned up on the russian web, free
2025 Qoos.com — macau has about seven hundred thousand people and for most of the 2000s it had one place online where they argued. qoos opened in september 2001, hit
7 Jan 2025 Meta Fact-Checking Program — facebook launched its third-party fact-checking program on 15 december 2016, six weeks after the us election, under pressure to explain what the platf
Jan 2025 Genieo — somoto paid thirty four million dollars in july 2014 for an israeli company whose product apple's own malware blocklist already named. genieo was sold
9 Jan 2025 Ubuntu Forums — ryan troy started it in october 2004 as a personal side project a few weeks before ubuntu shipped its first release, and canonical took the whole thin
10 Jan 2025 Trendalyzer — trendalyzer was the software that made statistics move. a foundation in stockholm built it, and a bubble chart with a time slider turned two hundred y
12 Jan 2025 Cohost — cohost launched in june 2022 from a four-person not-for-profit cooperative called anti software software club. the team built a twitter-shaped indie n
14 Jan 2025 Dunzo — dunzo was bengaluru's quick-commerce app founded in july 2014 by kabeer biswas with several cofounders. it grew from a whatsapp errand-runner group in
14 Jan 2025 Meta Spark — meta spark was the free desktop tool that let anyone build an augmented reality filter and publish it into instagram and facebook. it opened at f8 in
16 Jan 2025 Rory McIlroy PGA Tour — rory mcilroy pga tour shipped 14 july 2015 as the first ea pga tour title without tiger woods on the box since 1999. rebuilt on frostbite 3 for ps4 an
17 Jan 2025 MakersPlace — makersplace was the san francisco nft marketplace ex-pinterest engineers built in 2018 and shut down in january 2025. it was the venue that ran beeple
18 Jan 2025 BLUE PROTOCOL — nineteen months is what bandai namco got for a decade of talk about reviving the japanese pc mmo. blue protocol launched on 14 june 2023 as an origina
20 Jan 2025 CBP One — nearly a million people had booked through it, about 1,450 a day. on 20 january 2025 the scheduling function was removed at noon eastern and every pen
20 Jan 2025 Super Mecha Champions — netease built a battle royale where the map was scaled to the mechs rather than the people, gave each of thirty-seven machines a named pilot and a voi
24 Jan 2025 The Simpsons: Tapped Out — tapped out was a springfield you built one donut at a time. ea shipped it on 1 march 2012 and ran it as a freemium city-builder for nearly thirteen ye
24 Jan 2025 Amazon Today — the idea was that the fastest warehouse in america is the shop on the corner that already has the thing in stock. amazon signed up chains like pacsun
24 Jan 2025 Alchemy Stars — november 2024 brought the closure notice for the chinese service and december brought the same notice for the global one. both died on 24 january 2025
27 Jan 2025 ElephantSQL — twenty megabytes and five connections, free, forever, with no card on file. that was tiny turtle, and for about a decade it was the fastest way to put
28 Jan 2025 WHOIS (port 43) — on 28 january 2025 icann stopped requiring gtld registries and registrars to answer on port 43, and rdap became the official place to ask who owns a d
29 Jan 2025 Niconico Shunga — niwango opened it in august 2011 with a stated goal: moderators could not judge obscenity objectively, so the users would be asked to do it instead, a
30 Jan 2025 YouTube Leanback — youtube leanback was google's bet that the path to the television was the browser, not a hardware app. it launched in july 2010 at techcrunch disrupt
30 Jan 2025 The Elder Scrolls: Legends — the elder scrolls: legends was bethesda's free-to-play digital collectible card game set in the tamriel universe, launched on windows on 9 march 2017
30 Jan 2025 Moxie — moxie was a small robot that talked with children between five and ten, and for a lot of families with autistic kids it reached something no app had m
Jan 2025 RTFKT — benoit pagotto co-founded rtfkt studios in january 2020 with steven vasilev and chris le as a digital fashion studio building nft sneakers and ar try-
31 Jan 2025 Prime Try Before You Buy — prime try before you buy started life as prime wardrobe in june 2017. the pitch was simple: prime members could order up to six clothing or footwear i
31 Jan 2025 BlogTalkRadio — alan levy set up a phone bridge in 2006 so his family could hear updates about his sick father, and then turned the same plumbing into a service where
Jan 2025 Himado — the last working days were the end of january 2025, and no announcement followed, because there was nobody whose job it was to make one. himado opened
31 Jan 2025 Polywork — $44.5 million went into the idea that a professional profile should list everything you do instead of one job title. peter johnston founded polywork i
Jan 2025 sub.club — a hundred and fifty creators had signed up by the time bart decrem's studio ran out of money. sub.club launched on 29 august 2024 selling paid subscri
1 Feb 2025 RateBeer — bill buchanan started ratebeer in may 2000 and joe tucker ended up owning it. for twenty five years it was the reference database for anyone who cared
Feb 2025 Save This Life — an austin company sold pet microchips and promised live operators 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. in early february 2025 the phones stopped being ans
3 Feb 2025 Livestream — livestream started life as mogulus and paid around a hundred thousand dollars at auction for the word it renamed itself to, back when that word was st
9 Feb 2025 Bukalapak — bukalapak was indonesia's third major c2c marketplace, founded on 10 january 2010 by achmad zaky with two ITB classmates. it scaled into a unicorn beh
10 Feb 2025 Bento Africa — bento africa was a nigerian hr-payroll platform that automated tax and pension remittances for its client companies. by early 2025 the payments were n
12 Feb 2025 Getaround — three people out of singularity university's first class wanted the idle car on your street rentable by the hour from a phone. five hundred and sixty
14 Feb 2025 Create React App — a hundred and three thousand stars, twenty-six thousand forks and two thousand four hundred open issues, all of it still sitting on github today. the
17 Feb 2025 EA Sports UFC 3 — ea sports ufc 3 shipped 2 february 2018 with conor mcgregor on the cover, the third and longest-running of ea canada's four-title ufc run. seven years
17 Feb 2025 Realm Royale — 105,440 people were playing it at the same time in june 2018, in its first week on steam early access. by the following month the weekend peak was sev
18 Feb 2025 Amazon Inspire — amazon inspire was amazon's copy of tiktok, a vertical feed of shoppable photos and short videos that lived inside the shopping app. it launched in th
18 Feb 2025 Hood: Outlaws & Legends — a newcastle studio that had spent years building a virtual reality dogfighting game was handed a medieval heist shooter instead, and made a good one.
23 Feb 2025 Nifty Gateway — nifty gateway was the nft marketplace the cock foster twins launched in 2018. gemini bought it in late 2019. its peak moment was march 2021, when beep
Feb 2025 BookmarkSync — november 1998, a company called syncit shipped a tray icon that watched your favorites folder and copied every change to a server, so the same bookmar
24 Feb 2025 Dark Horse Digital — announced at new york comic con in october 2010, delayed past its own january launch date, and finally opened on 27 april 2011 to enough traffic that
25 Feb 2025 Monolith Productions — february 25 2025, warner bros. closed three of its game studios in one announcement, and monolith was the one with thirty years behind it. it made blo
26 Feb 2025 Kindle Vella — 29 october 2024, a tuesday morning: amazon said kindle vella had not caught on as it had hoped. the platform had launched in july 2021 to sell fiction
27 Feb 2025 Merc Storia — happy elements has now done this twice. merc storia ended at 15:00 on 27 february 2025, eleven years after the android release, and an offline app hol
28 Feb 2025 Humane AI Pin — the screenless ai wearable that was supposed to replace your phone and instead became 2024's most public flop. a small square that clipped to your shi
28 Feb 2025 G-cluster — founded in finland in 2000, before anybody had a phrase for it. the game ran in a datacenter and the picture came down the same cable as the televisio
3 Mar 2025 Viddler — viddler was a video hosting site founded in november 2005 by robert sandie and three co-founders in bethlehem, pennsylvania, launched to the public in
3 Mar 2025 İzlesene.com — izlesene opened in 2006 as the first turkish video sharing site and nokta bought it the year after. its moment came when youtube was blocked in turkey
5 Mar 2025 FiveThirtyEight — fivethirtyeight launched on march 7 2008 as a side blog by nate silver, an analyst from baseball prospectus who wanted to apply the same statistical m
5 Mar 2025 Windows Subsystem for Android — windows subsystem for android was microsoft's attempt to let a windows 11 pc run android apps, the way a mac can now run iphone apps. it shipped in 20
7 Mar 2025 Apostrophe — apostrophe was a US direct-to-consumer dermatology service founded around 2012 in oakland california as yoderm. the platform matched patients with lic
9 Mar 2025 COVIDtests.gov — covidtests.gov was a mail order form with no price on it. you typed a united states address into a postal service page and four rapid tests turned up
9 Mar 2025 Megido 72 — 19:02 on a sunday in march 2025 is the minute dena printed in the notice and the minute the online service stopped. the game itself kept going. an off
13 Mar 2025 NCAA Football 14 — a likeness lawsuit is what ended this one, not sales. ed o'bannon and sam keller sued in 2009 over college athletes appearing in ea's games without be
14 Mar 2025 Urban Dead — urban dead was the text-based browser zombie mmo kevan davis built and ran by himself from 3 july 2005 until 14 march 2025. players joined as survivor
16 Mar 2025 MathB.in — susam pal built it in one night in march 2012 and ran it alone for thirteen years. what finally stopped him was moderation: every time a stranger past
19 Mar 2025 Norfuk Wikipedia — norfolk island sits in the tasman sea with around eighteen hundred residents, some of them descended from the bounty mutineers and the tahitian women
20 Mar 2025 Dead by Daylight Mobile — twenty-five million downloads in two years, and the phone version of dead by daylight still could not outlive a change of plan at its publisher. netea
23 Mar 2025 23andMe — 23andme sold you a saliva kit and mailed back a website that told you where your ancestors came from and what you might carry. it grew to more than fo
24 Mar 2025 Lipa Later — lipa later was a kenyan buy-now-pay-later platform founded in 2018 by eric muli. it raised about $22 million across seed and debt rounds. by 2023 it h
24 Mar 2025 Vodkaster — télérama sent the email on 13 march 2025 and the logins stopped working the same evening. what died was a francophone film community that had run sinc
25 Mar 2025 Zap2it — zap2it launched on april 3 2000 from tribune media services, built by combining the in-house tvquest and moviequest listings sites with the ultimatetv
26 Mar 2025 DSLReports — dslreports launched on may 28 1999, justin beech building it from new york as a place for us broadband subscribers to compare their isp speeds and com
31 Mar 2025 Visual Studio App Center — app center was microsoft's attempt to package every step of mobile app delivery (build, test, distribute, analytics, push, crash reports) into one clo
31 Mar 2025 Aspiration — a los angeles neobank from 2013 that pitched itself as the climate-conscious alternative to wall street. the gimmick was tree planting and pay-what-yo
31 Mar 2025 OSDN (SourceForge.JP) — japan's own sourceforge, opened april 18 2002 by va linux and renamed osdn in 2015 to get clear of the american site's adware reputation. it hosted mo
31 Mar 2025 So-net Blog (SS Blog) — sony's japanese isp opened a blog service in the autumn of 2004 and ran it through the whole arc of personal publishing, from 20 megabytes of image sp
31 Mar 2025 Splits.io — ben carlsson started splits.io as a college project in 2013 and it became the place speedrunners kept their splits, the timing data that says which se
31 Mar 2025 NaNoWriMo — twenty-one people in the san francisco bay area wrote novels in july 1999 because chris baty thought it sounded like a good month. by 2022 the event d
31 Mar 2025 Indafotó — 13,641,979 photographs, counted to the last one in the closing notice, because indamedia knew exactly how many it was about to delete. eighteen years
31 Mar 2025 Mahou no i-land — three and a half billion page views a month in 2010, nearly all of them from japanese girls' flip phones. mahou no i-land started in december 1999 as
Apr 2025 Zelle (consumer app) — zelle launched the standalone consumer mobile app in june 2017 for people whose bank had not yet bundled zelle into its own app. by 2025 nearly every
1 Apr 2025 Qruiser — at twelve noon on 1 april 2025 the biggest queer community site in scandinavia switched off, one day after the date its publisher had announced in feb
2 Apr 2025 DreamLab — 3.7 million phones downloaded it and nearly half a million people kept an account. dreamlab did its work at the only moment a smartphone is both plugg
9 Apr 2025 Whisky — fifteen thousand github stars and thirty nine releases in two years, then isaac marovitz posted a maintenance notice and stopped. whisky was a swiftui
10 Apr 2025 openSNP — eight days after 23andme filed for chapter 11, bastian greshake tzovaras announced that the genetics commons he had run for fourteen years was closing
14 Apr 2025 DogeQuest — four weeks is the entire life of this one. the domain was taken out on 17 march 2025 through an anonymous registrar, the site put the names and street
15 Apr 2025 Hungama Music — hungama music was an indian music streaming service launched in 2013 under hungama digital media. in mid-2023 it cut its free tier and went subscripti
15 Apr 2025 BluSmart — blusmart was india's first ev-only ride-hail service, founded in january 2019 by the two jaggi brothers with cofounder punit k goyal out of gurugram.
15 Apr 2025 BluTV — blutv was the first turkish subscription streaming service, launched under doğan holding on 23 january 2016, and for a few years it was where the inte
17 Apr 2025 EA Origin — i installed origin around 2011 because i wanted to play battlefield 3, and there was no other way. ttnet broadband at home, mass effect 3 on the same
17 Apr 2025 Spectre Divide — on 12 march 2025, two weeks after season 1 and the console launch, nate mitchell told players that mountaintop studios would close by the end of the w
25 Apr 2025 Amazon WorkDocs — twelve months was the notice period, and aws counted it to the day. on 25 april 2024 the service stopped accepting new customers; on 25 april 2025 the
2025 Festivalinfo — three swedes started it in the summer of 2001 as a side project, and by 2007 it was filing from more than three hundred festivals a year. festivalinfo
30 Apr 2025 Tome — tome was the ai presentation tool that opened in 2020 as a story-format slide builder and pivoted hard into generative ai in 2022. it reached twenty m
30 Apr 2025 Catch.com.au — two brothers in melbourne copied woot in october 2006 and sold one discounted product a day. by the year to june 2022 the marketplace was moving 989 m
30 Apr 2025 Pivotal Tracker — broadcom bought vmware in november 2023, vmware had bought pivotal in 2019, and pivotal labs had written this tracker in 2008 for the only team it car
5 May 2025 Skype — blue logo, the boop boop ringtone, washed out video. how you called your grandma when she lived in another country. microsoft bought it for 8.5 billio
16 May 2025 Read.cv — read.cv was the text-first social network for product designers and the slightly online corner of tech. andy chung, a former product designer at faceb
17 May 2025 Otipy — otipy was a gurugram-based farm-to-consumer fresh-produce startup founded in june 2020 by varun khurana and prashant jain as a tech-driven spin-off of
May 2025 Citadel Olmera — vladimir smirnov named his site after a chieftain in a nick perumov novel and ran it from june 2000. litforum, the board attached to it, registered mo
20 May 2025 Builder.ai — builder.ai raised over 450 million dollars on the pitch that an AI called natasha could build your app. wall street journal exposed in august 2019 tha
21 May 2025 Ember Sword — ember sword was a browser-based sandbox mmorpg from bright star studios (formerly so couch studios) in aarhus, denmark, led by ceo mark laursen. annou
May 2025 Penny Arcade Forums — penny arcade started as a webcomic in november 1998 and grew a message board in the early 2000s that ended up being the more durable half of the opera
23 May 2025 JPG.STORE — jpg.store was the dominant nft marketplace on the cardano blockchain from 2021 through may 2025. it ran the trading layer for ada-denominated jpegs th
29 May 2025 Dauntless — dauntless was a free-to-play monster hunter analogue from phoenix labs. open beta started may 2018, retail launch september 26 2019 on pc, ps4 and xbo
29 May 2025 Relevo — vocento hired seventy-odd journalists off marca and as, pointed them at readers under forty, and told them to cover the sports the old papers ignored.
30 May 2025 MultiVersus — multiversus was a free-to-play platform fighter from player first games, published by warner bros. its appeal was a smash bros style brawler with bugs
30 May 2025 Fauna — hundreds of paying customers. that is the figure fauna's own farewell letter reached for in march 2025, against the eighty thousand development teams
30 May 2025 Shinobi Master Senran Kagura: New Link — november 2017 to may 2025 is seven and a half years, which is a long run for a japanese mobile gacha and a long time to stay inside one region. the ga
31 May 2025 HeyTell — two people ran heytell for fifteen years, which is longer than most funded messengers manage. steven hugg and jen harvey shipped it in february 2010 u
Jun 2025 Altigreen — altigreen propulsion labs was a bengaluru-based commercial ev startup founded in 2013 by amitabh saran with three co-founders (shalendra gupta, lasse
Jun 2025 Whonamedit? — ole daniel enersen made the first ascent of the troll wall in 1965 and spent the back half of his life writing down who every disease was named after.
1 Jun 2025 Hudson's Bay Company — charles ii handed a charter to his cousin prince rupert and seventeen other men on 2 may 1670, giving them the trade of every river draining into huds
2 Jun 2025 Netvibes — netvibes was a french personal start page. tariq krim launched it in september 2005 as an ajax-heavy dashboard where you could stack rss feeds and oth
3 Jun 2025 XDefiant — ubisoft built a shooter around one grievance, that call of duty had too much skill-based matchmaking, and shipped it without any. for about six weeks
16 Jun 2025 Archetyp Market — three hundred officers in germany, the netherlands, romania, spain and sweden moved between 11 and 13 june 2025, and the seizure banner went up on 16
21 Jun 2025 Khoros — khoros was an austin texas enterprise social-customer-experience SaaS, formed by the january 2019 merger of lithium technologies and spredfast. lithiu
2025 ALIWEB — martijn koster announced aliweb on 30 november 1993 from nexor in nottingham, which makes it the first search engine anyone built for the web. it did
24 Jun 2025 Tastebuds.fm — two bandmates in london built a dating site on the idea that your top artists said more about you than any profile could. it ran fifteen years, carrie
25 Jun 2025 goo dictionary — twenty-six years of free lookups ended at one in the afternoon on 25 june 2025. goo dictionary was the box japanese speakers typed a word into without
26 Jun 2025 Orbit by Mozilla — firefox shipped an ai sidebar with other people's chatbots wired into it, and that was the end of the extension mozilla had been running for nine mont
30 Jun 2025 Piggy — piggy was an indian direct-mutual-fund investment app founded in 2016 by ankush singh with co-founders kunal sangwan and nikhil mantha, later a y comb
30 Jun 2025 FC2WEB — fc2 opened a free homepage space in 2001 and handed out addresses of the form yourname.fc2web.com. twenty four years later the servers underneath had
30 Jun 2025 Intel Unison — the goodbye arrived as a pop-up inside the app: "it was a great run, but intel unison is approaching its sunset at the end of june 2025." intel had bo
30 Jun 2025 Woebot — alison darcy came out of a stanford postdoc with a chatbot that delivered cognitive behavioral therapy from a clinician-written script. it published a
1 Jul 2025 Fakespot — saoud khalifah got burned by a fake-reviewed amazon order and built a browser extension that graded any product page on its review credibility. mozill
1 Jul 2025 Windows Maps — windows maps was microsoft's built-in mapping app, released on 20 november 2014 as the unified successor to the older bing maps app and the leftover p
Jul 2025 MovieTickets.com — a group of movie chains built their own ticket seller in 2000 so that fandango would not own the category outright. the war ran seventeen years and fa
7 Jul 2025 Microsoft Math Solver — you pointed a phone camera at a line of handwritten algebra and it returned the answer with the working underneath, free and with no account to make.
8 Jul 2025 Pocket — pocket started on august 6 2007 as read it later, a firefox extension that nate weiner wrote so he could save articles for the train. by 2012 the rebr
14 Jul 2025 12ft.io — 12ft.io was one text box. you pasted a paywalled url into it and it fetched the page while identifying itself as a search crawler, because a publisher
15 Jul 2025 Politics.ie — david cochrane started politics.ie in 2003 and it became the place irish political argument happened outside the newspapers, in english and in irish,
15 Jul 2025 Rockstar Games Social Club — the shutdown announcement was a redirect. players noticed on 15 july 2025 that socialclub.rockstargames.com no longer went anywhere except the company
15 Jul 2025 Letopisi.ru — a wiki for russian schoolchildren went up on 27 january 2006 with intel and the railway telecom operator transtelecom behind it, and the premise was t
18 Jul 2025 Microsoft Movies & TV — microsoft stopped selling films on 18 july 2025, without a countdown and without refunds. the store had been running since 2006 under three different
18 Jul 2025 Clear Linux OS — on 18 july 2025 intel posted a forum thread titled "all good things come to an end" and finished a ten-year-old linux distribution the same afternoon.
23 Jul 2025 Good Glamm Group — good glamm group was india's first beauty-commerce unicorn, founded in 2017 by darpan sanghvi as the direct-to-consumer brand myglamm. it grew into a
28 Jul 2025 Fillos de Galicia — a galician community built for the galicians who were not in galicia. manuel casal lodeiro started it in 1997, in galician, for emigrants and their ch
30 Jul 2025 Peloton Guide — peloton guide was a machine-learning strength-training camera launched 5 april 2022 in the us, uk, canada and australia at $295 (down from the announc
Jul 2025 Whisper — whisper launched on march 31 2012 from a venice california outfit run by michael heyward and brad brooks. the format was an anonymous post against a k
31 Jul 2025 Run For Money: Tousou Gokko — uuum manages youtubers. it also built games, through a wholly owned studio called litmus, and in 2022 it crossed one of its own titles with 逃走中, the f
Aug 2025 HelloGiggles — hellogiggles launched in may 2011 with zooey deschanel as the marquee co-founder, sophia rossi on the production side and molly mcaleer running editor
Aug 2025 Kinja — kinja was nick denton's attempt to make gawker media a platform rather than a set of blogs. launched april 2004 with meg hourihan from pyra labs as th
Aug 2025 Banxso — banxso was a cape-town-based cfd trading platform launched in 2021 that grew rapidly on the back of deepfake video ads impersonating elon musk and sou
1 Aug 2025 Block N Load — jagex built a successor to ace of spades, sold the whole thing to toadman interactive in 2018, and the new owners ran it another seven years before po
20 Aug 2025 Amazon Appstore on Android — the amazon appstore on android was the alternate android app store amazon ran from march 22 2011 until august 20 2025 for non-fire android devices. th
20 Aug 2025 Hoshi no Shima no Nyanko — colopl ran this one for eleven years and five months, which is roughly four times what a phone game gets. it was the first title under kumabea, the co
Aug 2025 Ziilch — michelle power started ziilch in 2010 because she had watched too much usable furniture go out with the hard rubbish, and launched it in july 2011 as
25 Aug 2025 Google URL Shortener — goo.gl was google's tracking-flavored bit.ly. it launched in december 2009 as a feature inside the toolbar, got its own domain in 2010, stopped taking
29 Aug 2025 Splitgate — splitgate was 1047 games' arena shooter built on the portal mechanic of player-placed wormholes layered onto halo-style sci-fi combat. early access sh
31 Aug 2025 Blacklight: Retribution — blacklight: retribution was a free to play shooter that shipped in 2012 with a visor you could switch on to see every enemy through every wall. it hit
Sep 2025 TVPlayer — tvplayer did not own any television. it owned permission to carry other people's, inside one country, and it gave that away free in a browser at a tim
2 Sep 2025 OSzone.net — a forum opened in november 2001 to answer questions about windows, hit three hundred thousand visitors a day around 2005, and then spent twenty years
3 Sep 2025 Amazon Freevee — amazon freevee was three brands and one service. it launched on january 11 2019 as imdb freedive, an ad-supported video tier that imdb tucked into its
3 Sep 2025 Skyforge — skyforge was the moscow-built free-to-play sci-fi mmo where you started as an immortal on the planet aelion and climbed a seventeen-class atlas until
4 Sep 2025 Thinkspot — december 2018 is where it starts. patreon banned carl benjamin, jordan peterson and dave rubin said they would build the platform that could not do th
5 Sep 2025 EresMás — retevisión spent the year 2000 buying spanish internet providers and gluing them into one green portal called eresmás, which had a million access user
5 Sep 2025 Funtoo Linux — daniel robbins built gentoo, resigned from it in 2004, and spent the next sixteen years on a second source-based distribution that carried the same id
8 Sep 2025 Nova Launcher — nova launcher was the answer for fourteen years to the question "which third-party launcher should i use on android". one developer, kevin barry, kept
13 Sep 2025 Refern — a recent college graduate posting as jaks024 launched refern on product hunt at the end of 2023 as an ad-free local-first visual reference library for
13 Sep 2025 Hike Rush — hike rush was the second act of kavin bharti mittal, the founder who had built hike messenger to 100 million registered users during its 2012-2020 run
13 Sep 2025 Pandlr — a jovem pan radio fan community on orkut in 2005 turned into the loudest pop culture forum on the brazilian internet. pandlr got its own domain in mar
17 Sep 2025 Oshiete! goo — from november 2000 to september 2025 this was one of the two places japanese people went to ask strangers how to do something, and for most of that ru
Sep 2025 10000 Flies — every morning at nine, a small company in düsseldorf published the fifty german-language articles that had been shared hardest in the previous twenty-
29 Sep 2025 Schoolgirl Strikers — one app ran for eleven years and five months under two different names, and nobody ever had to download it twice: in may 2018 square enix updated スクール
30 Sep 2025 AOL Dial-Up — the dial-up internet service that defined the 1990s american internet experience. you tied up the phone line, listened to the modem handshake, logged
30 Sep 2025 TypePad — typepad was the paid blogging service from six apart, the same company behind movable type, launched in october 2003 as a hosted version of the same e
30 Sep 2025 Yahoo Smart TV — yahoo smart tv (originally yahoo connected tv) was the widget layer that lived on the back of internet-enabled samsung and lg and vizio and sony telev
30 Sep 2025 Adobe Premiere Rush — adobe premiere rush launched on october 15, 2018 at the adobe max conference as a stripped-down version of premiere pro for mobile creators who were s
30 Sep 2025 AOL Shield Pro — aol shield pro was a chromium-based windows web browser that aol sold on a subscription for about $3.99 a month with a 30-day free trial. it launched
30 Sep 2025 MIRAIL — sixteen rights holders signed up in april 2019 to sell their films straight to japanese viewers, with no streaming service standing in between. the co
1 Oct 2025 NHK+ — nhk+ put japan's public broadcaster on the internet in april 2020, live and with a week of catch-up, free to anyone whose household already paid the r
1 Oct 2025 Star Wars: Hunters — zynga put it on a nintendo direct stage in february 2021 and then shipped it in june 2024, three years and four months later, after two public delays.
1 Oct 2025 Victory Belles — 1,113 people put up $100,348 in the spring of 2016 for a western answer to kantai collection. the game reached phones on 22 february 2023, six years a
5 Oct 2025 Dot — on 5 september 2025 the two people who built dot posted a letter saying their founding goals had drifted apart and that neither of them wanted to comp
6 Oct 2025 NHL 21 — nhl 21 shipped 16 october 2020 for ps4 and xbox one with alex ovechkin on the cover, second time ovechkin had held the slot after nhl 07. ea vancouver
7 Oct 2025 Need for Speed Rivals — need for speed rivals shipped 15 november 2013 as the first nfs title ghost games ever built and the last one criterion co-developed. redview county o
10 Oct 2025 Apple Clips — apple clips was apple's attempt to compete in the casual short-video space against snapchat in 2017 and against tiktok in the years after. it shipped
10 Oct 2025 Superfuse — a studio in breda called stitch heads entered bankruptcy on 5 november 2024 and dismissed all eighteen of its staff the following day. superfuse, its
14 Oct 2025 Windows 10 — windows 10 shipped 29 july 2015 as a free upgrade from windows 7 and windows 8.1. it was the version microsoft said would be the last, the one that wo
14 Oct 2025 Microsoft Office 2019 — office 2019 shipped on 24 september 2018 as the last office release microsoft told the press was really meant to be bought once and used forever. the
14 Oct 2025 Sinclair Research — 19 september 1973, a company called westminster mail order is incorporated in cambridge. it changes its name four times, puts the zx81 and the zx spec
14 Oct 2025 Windows on Windows — for thirty-two years every 32-bit windows nt release shipped a subsystem whose only job was to keep programs written for windows 3.1 running. it was c
Oct 2025 Bing Maps Streetside — bing maps streetside launched in december 2009 as microsoft's google street view answer. it covered selected US metros plus vancouver, with europe add
15 Oct 2025 Logitech POP — the logitech pop kit was a small wireless button paired with a wifi bridge. each button could fire up to three scenes depending on how it was pressed:
16 Oct 2025 KartRider: Drift — in 2007 roughly a quarter of south korea had played the original kartrider at least once. the sequel nexon built to replace it arrived on 12 january 2
17 Oct 2025 まんがライフWIN — pop team epic started here, on a free four-panel comic site run by a tokyo publisher that updated every single day and asked nobody for an account. まん
17 Oct 2025 WEBコミックガンマ — made in abyss ran here. akihito tsukushi started it in october 2012 on the story annex of a free four-panel comic site, and in december 2013 takeshobo
17 Oct 2025 ストーリアダッシュ — a print magazine called まんがライフSTORIA put a website up in april 2017 and named it after itself, down to a prime mark on the end. the magazine stopped i
17 Oct 2025 WEBコミックガンマぷらす — takeshobo stopped printing ナマイキッ! with its may 2018 issue and put the orphaned serials on a website two months before the last copy shipped. the websi
Oct 2025 dns0.eu — sixty-two servers in fifty-five datacenters across twenty-seven european cities, free to anybody, run by the two people who had already built nextdns.
20 Oct 2025 Madden NFL 22 — madden nfl 22 shipped 20 august 2021 with tom brady and patrick mahomes on the box, first dual-cover madden the franchise had put out since madden 10
25 Oct 2025 Nest Learning Thermostat (1st and 2nd gen) — the nest learning thermostat went on sale on 25 october 2011 and turned a dial on a hallway wall into a consumer electronics category. google bought t
28 Oct 2025 All Partners Access Network — for twenty-eight years the american military ran a website that was deliberately not on a .mil address, so that officers from countries outside the us
29 Oct 2025 edocr — manoj ranaweera built edocr in manchester in 2007 and never took a penny of outside money for it. accusoft bought it in march 2015 and made the thing
30 Oct 2025 FIFA 23 — fifa 23 shipped 30 september 2022, the last title ea would ship under the fifa brand after nearly three decades of the licensing deal. ultimate team p
31 Oct 2025 Facebook Gaming Creator Program — facebook gaming creator program launched in 2018 as meta's twitch-style partner tier for gaming livestreamers. it offered early feature access plus a
31 Oct 2025 SeatGuru — one frequent flyer got tired of guessing and started drawing seat maps in 2001. by the time tripadvisor bought it in 2007, seatguru held over a thousa
Oct 2025 Stoop — seven years after it launched, the app that gave your newsletters their own address stopped accepting mail. stoop was built in philadelphia by a found
31 Oct 2025 Final Fantasy Brave Exvius — october 2015 to october 2025, which is an ordinary decade for a company and a geological era for a phone game. square enix closed the global version f
31 Oct 2025 Dragon Quest of the Stars — on 25 august 2025 square enix announced two funerals and gave them the same hour. dragon quest of the stars had opened a week before final fantasy bra
Nov 2025 BharatAgri — bharatagri was a pune and bengaluru based agritech founded in 2017 by siddharth dialani and sai gole, both iit madras alumni. the platform ran an ai-d
Nov 2025 NateOn — nateon was the korean instant messenger that overtook msn in its home country in may 2005 and stayed on top for the rest of the decade. sk communicati
Nov 2025 Film School Rejects — nineteen years of movie writing, run by one person on his own money. neil miller started film school rejects in february 2006, in the window when a fi
4 Nov 2025 Tarisland — tarisland was tencent's cross-platform world of warcraft clone, developed by level infinite with locojoy and published worldwide under the level infin
5 Nov 2025 Monkeybuzz — monkeybuzz was a brazilian independent music site founded in 2012 by lucas repullo, who was twenty years old at the time. for thirteen years it covere
6 Nov 2025 Deceit — aging servers and a new compliance burden finished a free steam game that had run for eight years on an engine the rest of the market had left behind.
8 Nov 2025 MemeStreams — on 8 november 2025 the dns zone for memestreams.net was edited and the address record came out of it, which is how a community that had been answering
10 Nov 2025 POCO.cn — poco was one of china's first photography communities, opened in 2003 in guangzhou and grown over twenty-two years into a place with more than a hundr
15 Nov 2025 Listly — on 15 september 2025 listly published a shutdown plan, and on 15 november it closed. for fourteen years it made a list that other people could add to,
17 Nov 2025 DappRadar — dappradar was the analytics platform for blockchain applications, the one most web3 founders pointed traders at when they needed to prove their dapp h
17 Nov 2025 TCM Movie Database — the american film institute licensed its catalog of feature films to turner classic movies in 2006, and tcm wrapped it in a free public database that
18 Nov 2025 goo blog — ntt docomo gave the reason for this one in corporate plain text: concentrating management resources after changes in market trends and in how much the
21 Nov 2025 Supermaven — jacob jackson had already built tabnine when he started supermaven in february 2024, and the pitch was speed. a completion model called babble, with a
25 Nov 2025 goo — at one in the afternoon on 25 november 2025, ntt turned off a portal that had been running since 1997. goo started as a japanese-language crawler a ye
27 Nov 2025 Tribe Nine — tribe nine landed 20 february 2025 as a mobile action rpg from kazutaka kodaka's too kyo games and akatsuki, a game spin-off of the 2022 anime built a
27 Nov 2025 Mullvad Leta — on 6 november 2025 mullvad gave its search proxy three weeks to live. leta had spent most of its two and a half years behind a paid vpn account, passi
1 Dec 2025 Microsoft Mesh — microsoft mesh was the post-altspacevr, post-hololens attempt to bolt avatars and shared 3d spaces onto teams. it spent its first two years as a previ
1 Dec 2025 Fundly — $350 million had gone through it by 2015, most of that in small gifts to school teams and animal shelters rather than to gadgets on kickstarter. fundl
2 Dec 2025 ESPN3 — espn3 started as espn360.com in 2005 and spent twenty years being the sports service nobody could buy. there was no subscription. espn charged america
2 Dec 2025 Cree Wikipedia — eighty-six thousand people speak cree, and for twenty-one years the wikipedia carrying their language code sat almost empty. the code pointed at a con
3 Dec 2025 Adobe Aero — adobe shipped an ar authoring app at the 2019 max keynote and quietly walked it off six years later. by 2025 the company had rotated its compute budge
5 Dec 2025 Limitless Pendant — limitless was the second life of rewind ai. rewind had shipped a mac screen-recording app in 2022, then in april 2024 the team rebranded as limitless
15 Dec 2025 Arkham Exchange — arkham exchange was the trading subsidiary of arkham intelligence, the blockchain analytics company. it launched as a crypto derivatives venue in octo
16 Dec 2025 Google Tables — tables launched in september 2020 as an area 120 experiment, a work-tracking grid that was google's answer to airtable. in 2021 it moved out of beta a
17 Dec 2025 Bufftoon — a game company remembered it was a game company. ncsoft opened bufftoon in december 2013 to sell webtoons and web novels, grew it to roughly three tho
18 Dec 2025 Mercari Hallo — by february 2025 six out of every ten people signing up for spot work in japan were signing up for mercari hallo. by june it had twelve million regist
19 Dec 2025 Guilded — guilded launched on march 17 2017 from eli brown's pitch as the gaming-clan chat platform discord did not want to be. premium tier features were free
19 Dec 2025 Amino — amino shut down without warning on 19 december 2025. the servers stopped responding and the apps stopped loading. medialab ai, which had owned the pla
19 Dec 2025 InkyPen — a small company in bergen put an all-you-can-read comics subscription on the nintendo switch on 17 december 2018, at $7.99 a month, and had the consol
22 Dec 2025 Nyanko Daidorobou — twelve traps on a budget of thirty-five, laid out inside your own castle to stop a stranger's cats carrying your treasure back out through one of ten
30 Dec 2025 Triller — triller was the loudest of the tiktok rivals during the 2020 india ban and the trump-era tiktok-divestiture noise. ryan kavanaugh wrapped it in a boxi
31 Dec 2025 MTV Music Channels — five linear music-video channels died together on 31 december 2025. mtv music, mtv 80s, mtv 90s, club mtv, mtv live. paramount let the distribution co
31 Dec 2025 Mercedes-Benz mbrace — mbrace was mercedes-benz usa's connected-vehicle service, the layer that sat between the car and verizon's 3g network and gave you remote start, stole
31 Dec 2025 Panels (MKBHD) — panels was marques brownlee's paid wallpaper subscription. it launched in september 2024 at $11.99 a month or $49.99 a year, hit number one in the ios
31 Dec 2025 Radish Fiction — radish fiction was the new york based serial-fiction mobile app founded in february 2016 by seung yoon lee, a korean rhodes scholar and former byline
31 Dec 2025 Mola — mola was a streaming service owned by a clove cigarette fortune. djarum took the indonesian rights to the english premier league away from bein sports
31 Dec 2025 Anime Network — anime network was a.d. vision's attempt to put anime on american cable, launched in late 2002 as a video on demand service and expanded into a 24 hour
31 Dec 2025 HP-UX — forty three years is a long run for an operating system, and this one spent most of it underneath things that were not allowed to stop, bank ledgers a
31 Dec 2025 MetroCard — on 6 january 1994 the new york subway sold its first fare card and started the slow job of killing the token. that took nine years. the card itself la
31 Dec 2025 Boxcryptor — two people in augsburg wrote a tool to encrypt their own dropbox folder, then posted it in dropbox's own user forum on 5 august 2011. a thousand downl
31 Dec 2025 Gumstix — gordon kruberg started gumstix in 2003 and had a full linux computer measuring 20 by 80 millimeters on sale by may 2004, which was most of a decade be

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2024 Gigwise — gigwise started in liverpool in 2001 as a page of gig listings and turned into one of the most read music sites in britain, ahead of nme online by 201
Jan 2024 Pathfinder.gr — the first greek web portal, online from october 1998, built by phaistos networks out of mires in crete. it had the full kit of the period, its own sea
Jan 2024 LEGO Vidiyo — lego and universal music shipped a toy on 1 march 2021 whose entire point was a phone app. you built a small stage, held your camera over plastic tile
2024 8-Track Heaven — 8-track heaven went up on 20 july 1995 as a shrine to a car stereo format that was already two decades dead, and it stayed up for twenty nine years, l
2024 Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español — on 26 february 2002 the contributors to the spanish wikipedia walked out and took the articles with them, because they believed advertising was coming
2024 Ryze — adrian scott finished a mathematics phd at twenty and had money from being an early investor in napster, and in 2001 he spent some of it on a website
1 Jan 2024 TensorBoard.dev — december 2019, google launched a free place to park your tensorboard logs so you could send somebody a link instead of a screenshot. researchers with
2024 Dalilmasr — an egyptian domain registered on 4 february 2010, after two earlier attempts at the same idea had been abandoned on it. dalil masr listed egyptian bus
Jan 2024 The Big Cartoon DataBase — dave koch started it on his own computer in 1997 as a list of disney features. by 2009 it held a hundred thousand cartoons and librarians were citing
Jan 2024 Gmail Basic HTML — in september 2023 a notice went out from google: the gmail basic html view for desktop web and mobile web would be disabled starting early january 202
2024 BlenderBot 3 — on 5 august 2022 meta put a 175 billion parameter chatbot on the open web and asked the public to grade its answers. the press found the antisemitism
Jan 2024 Otofu — seven minutes a call, four outgoing calls a day, and the same person once a week. dwango shipped otofu on 23 april 2022, the opening day of niconico c
3 Jan 2024 Coqui — berlin, march 2021: four engineers whose team mozilla had just closed down started a company to carry on the same work in the open. coqui spent three
4 Jan 2024 GPT-3 (davinci era) — OpenAI's 2020 model that taught everyone what 'language model' actually meant. davinci-002 and 003 had a roughness GPT-4 never quite had. you could fe
5 Jan 2024 Smeet — at eleven at night on 5 january 2024, after an in-world goodbye party, a berlin company switched off the 3d chat world it had been running for sixteen
8 Jan 2024 CGSociety — on 9 december 2001 leonard teo started a forum for the company he worked for. the company fell apart six months later and he kept the forum, which is
9 Jan 2024 Beeper Mini — beeper mini reverse-engineered the imessage protocol and put blue bubbles on android. it launched on december 5 2023, apple blocked it three days late
11 Jan 2024 Uriminzokkiri — uriminzokkiri was north korea's first website, up in 2003 on a shanghai server, pushing state media at south korean readers in five languages while so
Jan 2024 Artifact — artifact was a news reader built by instagram's founders kevin systrom and mike krieger, launched in early 2023 with machine-learning recommendations
15 Jan 2024 SINoALICE — snow white and cinderella and alice live in a place called the library, and they murder each other to gather enough life essence to bring their author
Jan 2024 Google Play Movies & TV — google play movies and tv was the film rental and purchase store google shipped on android for over a decade. it launched as google movies in may 2011
22 Jan 2024 Propnight — fntastic announced its own closure on 11 december 2023 and said in the same notice that the servers for its two games would keep running. ten days lat
22 Jan 2024 Riot Forge — 530 jobs went at riot games on 22 january 2024, and riot forge went with them. the label existed to pay outside studios to build single-player games i
22 Jan 2024 Vroom — ally financial suspended the credit line that paid for vroom's inventory in january 2024, and the retail side was wound down inside a week. the compan
22 Jan 2024 The Day Before — four days is how long you could buy it. the day before held the top of steam's most wishlisted chart from may 2022 and reached early access on 7 decem
24 Jan 2024 Tumblr Live — tumblr live was never really tumblr. it was a livestream tab grafted onto a 2008-coded blogging site by an owner trying to keep the lights on. the str
31 Jan 2024 The Messenger — the messenger launched on may 15 2023 with $50 million in seed and a pitch for nonpartisan general-interest news at hill-of-the-2010s scale. jimmy fin
31 Jan 2024 Resso — resso was bytedance's music streaming app for india, with brazil and indonesia following at launch. it went live on 4 march 2020 with major-label cata
31 Jan 2024 chess24 — chess24 arrived in 2014 into a market that already had a free giant and a commercial giant, and won a decade of relevance by not competing on the boar
31 Jan 2024 Gran Turismo Sport — thirteen million copies, and a deal with the fia, the body that sanctions formula one and had never put its name on a video game before. the catch was
31 Jan 2024 中国军视网 (China Military TV Network) — on 29 january 2024 a notice went up saying the site would stop two days later, and on the 31st it did. 中国军视网 had been online since 29 december 2014, r
31 Jan 2024 CNN Philippines — two days. that is the gap between nine media corporation announcing the closure on 29 january 2024 and cnn philippines going off air on the 31st. the
31 Jan 2024 World of Demons — on 5 january 2024 platinumgames posted that service was ending, and gave no reason at all. the game came off apple arcade on the 18th and the copies a
1 Feb 2024 Designer News — two founders of a failing version-control startup built a link aggregator for designers on the side, and the side project outlasted the company by nin
Feb 2024 queer.af — in february 2024 a ministry in kabul suspended a domain name, and a small social server in another hemisphere stopped existing. queer.af had run for f
2 Feb 2024 Google Cache — google cache shipped with the search engine itself in 1997. every result on the search page had a cached link beside it that took you to a stored copy
4 Feb 2024 OpenBitTorrent — for fifteen years the largest public bittorrent tracker in the world held no files and no accounts, just a hostname you pasted into a torrent so that
5 Feb 2024 Weaveworks — 5 february 2024, a linkedin post from alexis richardson: weaveworks will be closing its doors and shutting down commercial operations. the company had
8 Feb 2024 画吧 (Huabar) — the founder wrote the goodbye at dawn on 13 january 2024. he said he had gathered up dozens of screenshots covering every home page redesign since 201
9 Feb 2024 HexChat — hexchat started in 2010 as a windows patch set for xchat and took its own name in july 2012. for the decade after that it was the irc client most linu
15 Feb 2024 Microsoft Stream (Classic) — microsoft stream launched on june 20 2017 as a corporate video-sharing service for office 365 tenants. it replaced office 365 video, which itself had
15 Feb 2024 Ntreev Soft — ntreev soft was a korean studio with two games that mattered and twenty years of trying to find a third. it made trickster online in 2003 and pangya i
16 Feb 2024 gotm.io — a small swedish studio built the one thing the godot engine did not have: somewhere to put a web build where a stranger could click a link and be play
22 Feb 2024 Vice.com — vice.com was the flagship digital publication of vice media group, consolidated in 2011 out of the older viceland.com and vbs.tv domains. through the
27 Feb 2024 Twitch Korea — twitch put a korean server up in 2015 and spent nine years taking the market away from afreecatv, reaching about 52 percent of korean livestream viewi
29 Feb 2024 TinyLetter — tinyletter was a one-person newsletter app launched in november 2010 by philip kaplan (pud, of fuckedcompany.com). it did one thing: send plain emails
29 Feb 2024 Lang-8 — lang-8 ran on reciprocity. you posted a paragraph in a language you were learning and a native speaker struck through your phrasing and wrote theirs b
29 Feb 2024 Manyland — a leap day ending, 29 february 2024, picked because there happened to be one to pick. philipp lenssen and scott lowe kept a browser universe running f
29 Feb 2024 Anyland — over ten thousand areas and more than a quarter of a million hand-made objects, carried by two people on patron money until the server invoices stoppe
29 Feb 2024 Amazon Honeycode — forty-four months in beta and not one day of general availability. aws launched honeycode in june 2020 as a spreadsheet you could turn into a real mob
29 Feb 2024 Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia — 29 february 2024 is a date that only exists every four years, and square enix picked it to end a seven-year gacha. opera omnia pulled characters out o
29 Feb 2024 DC Dual Force — the steam and epic release was 17 october 2023. the shutdown notice went up on 21 december, nine weeks later, and the servers were gone by 29 february
29 Feb 2024 PlayMemories Online — six countries got it at four in the afternoon on 25 april 2012, five gigabytes free, and the rest of the world waited. sony ran the thing for nearly t
1 Mar 2024 İTÜ Sözlük — itü sözlük opened on 1 march 2004 as a collaborative dictionary for istanbul technical university, reachable only from inside the campuses for its fir
Mar 2024 AWS Snowmobile — amazon announced it in november 2016 by driving a shipping container onto the re:invent stage, and it was exactly what it looked like: a semi trailer
Mar 2024 BlueGriffon — bluegriffon was daniel glazman's third attempt at the same idea: a wysiwyg web page editor built on mozilla's rendering engine, written from scratch a
Mar 2024 Exalead — francois bourdoncle helped build the part of altavista that let you narrow a query, then spent the next decade building a french search engine that di
Mar 2024 Whim — helsinki got the first one of these in late 2016, a single app with a monthly fee that covered the tram and a taxi when you needed one, sold on the pr
Mar 2024 Drizly — 1.1 billion dollars in uber stock and cash, february 2021, for an app that had a liquor store bring the beer and scan your id at the door. three years
1 Mar 2024 Google Business Profile Websites — sixty percent of small businesses did not have a website at all. that was the number google used in june 2017 when it switched on a free one page site
Mar 2024 Incognito Market — six hundred and forty thousand cryptocurrency transactions ran through incognito between october 2020 and march 2024, and the ending was an inside job
3 Mar 2024 Télam — javier milei opened the 2024 legislative session on 1 march by announcing he was closing a seventy-eight-year-old news agency, which he described as k
4 Mar 2024 yuzu — yuzu was an open source nintendo switch emulator, released in january 2018 by the people who had already written citra for the 3ds. it ran current gam
4 Mar 2024 Citra — ten years of open source work on making a nintendo 3ds run on hardware it was never written for. citra started in april 2014, grew into the reference
12 Mar 2024 Vudu — vudu started in 2004 in santa clara as a digital-media-player startup with a black settop box that shipped in 2007. walmart acquired the company on fe
12 Mar 2024 Today's Plan — canberra built a training platform that worldtour teams trusted with their riders, and it still did not reach ten years old. today's plan read your ri
12 Mar 2024 Blueboard — on 12 march 2024 around five hundred companies opened an email telling them their employee rewards platform had ceased operations, effective immediate
15 Mar 2024 Flurry — a hundred and fifty billion app sessions a month moved through a company almost nobody outside the trade could name. flurry sold mobile software befor
15 Mar 2024 Anon.cafe — the administrator gave nine weeks of notice, said plainly that nobody had pressured them and that the decision was entirely their own, and closed anon
21 Mar 2024 Rocket Arena — on 18 november 2023 rocket arena vanished from every digital store with no announcement attached, and the shutdown notice arrived four weeks after tha
23 Mar 2024 Mint — the free budgeting app that aggregated every us bank account and credit card into a single dashboard. aaron patzer launched it at techcrunch40 in 2007
24 Mar 2024 Keen — google's internal incubator built a pinterest with a machine learning engine underneath it. you made a board about a subject you cared about and saved
25 Mar 2024 Taringa! — taringa launched on june 8 2004 in buenos aires when fernando sanz was eighteen. he sold ninety percent for five thousand dollars in 2006 to alberto n
27 Mar 2024 Jumputi Heroes — 476 characters, certified on 2 december 2019 as the most licensed manga characters ever put in a mobile game. by may 2022 the same record had been re-
27 Mar 2024 Yahoo! Loco — seven services went in and one came out. yahoo japan announced the merger in january 2011, said april, and opened yahoo! loco on 1 june: maps, restaur
28 Mar 2024 Pokémon TV — 467,000 people were still opening it in December 2023. the free app where you could watch the pokémon anime without an account or a subscription, on t
29 Mar 2024 BlueJeans by Verizon — bluejeans network was founded in 2009 by krish ramakrishnan and alagu periyannan as a cloud video bridge that could connect different conference room
30 Mar 2024 Chimeraland — tencent's level infinite published chimeraland globally on 15 july 2022, an open-world survival mmo of eastern mythology by pixel soft. the game launc
30 Mar 2024 Waitr — lake charles, louisiana is not where food delivery apps come from, and that was the entire pitch. waitr started there in 2013 by signing up restaurant
31 Mar 2024 RadioPublic — prx (the boston public-radio distributor behind this american life and the moth) formed radiopublic as a public benefit corporation in may 2016 and la
31 Mar 2024 Reader's Digest Canada — reader's digest canada was the canadian arm of the pocket-format monthly, running for 76 years across two editions. the french sélection launched in 1
31 Mar 2024 The Crew — the crew was an always online racing game across a shrunk united states, and it sold to twelve million players. on 31 march 2024 ubisoft turned off th
31 Mar 2024 OKMusic — japan music network ran both barks and okmusic, and in february 2024 it decided to keep one of them. the announcement is three timestamps and a thank-
Apr 2024 Facebook News — facebook news was meta's attempt to be a place people read the day's news on purpose, a dedicated tab launched in 2019 with human editors up top and l
1 Apr 2024 The Siberian Times — for twelve years almost every strange story you read about siberia came from one website. thawed worms waking up after 40,000 years, craters opening i
Apr 2024 BNN Breaking — gurbaksh chahal registered a news operation in hong kong in 2022 and pointed language models at other people's reporting. hundreds of stories a day we
2024 Microspot — a swiss electronics chain founded in 1980 was bought by coop in 1996 and had its shops folded into interdiscount three years later, which should have
Apr 2024 DoggCatcher — google play stopped listing it in april 2024, five and a half years after the final update shipped. the website had already lapsed the autumn before t
2 Apr 2024 Funimation — funimation started on may 9 1994 in decatur texas. gen fukunaga and his wife cindy founded the company with funding from his uncle in tokyo, the goal
4 Apr 2024 The Thousand Musketeers: Rhodoknight — four characters out of this project have voice actors and commercial cds and have never been playable in any game at all. marvelous closed the servers
5 Apr 2024 Warhaven — nexon's free-to-play medieval hero shooter, a 32-player sword-based pvp game built at nexon korea. launched into steam early access on 20 september 20
8 Apr 2024 Nest Secure — nest secure was the fadell-era nest team's home-security entry. the kit paired a nest guard hub with nest detect door and motion sensors. google stopp
8 Apr 2024 DropCam — a wifi camera that lived inside someone else's server farm and died when the server farm decided it had moved on. dropcam shipped in 2009, sold to nes
8 Apr 2024 Nintendo Network — nintendo network was the account system and online service sitting under the 3ds and the wii u, live from january 2012. it ran the eshop and the onlin
8 Apr 2024 Nintendo Badge Arcade — nintendo badge arcade was a crane machine bolted onto the 3ds home menu. it opened in japan on 17 december 2014 and reached the west in november 2015,
8 Apr 2024 StreetPass Mii Plaza — every nintendo 3ds shipped with it and most owners opened it more often than anything they paid for. it collected the miis of strangers you had physic
8 Apr 2024 Kim Kardashian: Hollywood — a game about becoming famous, sold by somebody famous. you started on the e-list and worked up by booking modeling jobs and going on dates that were a
8 Apr 2024 Super Mario Maker — nintendo shipped the level editor it had built for its own designers and let strangers upload seven million courses to a shared server. uploads were f
9 Apr 2024 ChatGPT Plugins (beta) — eleven outside companies and two of openai's own shipped the first plugins in march 2023, and for a year the way into chatgpt was a json file sitting
13 Apr 2024 Visa Electron — visa spent thirty nine years selling a debit card that had to ask permission before it would move any money. the number was printed rather than emboss
15 Apr 2024 Hobbes OS/2 Archive — hobbes outlived the operating system it served by about two decades. it started in 1990 in a graduate computer lab at new mexico state university and
22 Apr 2024 Rooster Teeth Podcast — episode 1 went out on 9 december 2008 under the name drunk tank, four guys from an austin game studio talking for an hour with the microphones already
24 Apr 2024 Atlas VPN — nord security announced the deal on 15 october 2021 and promised atlas vpn would keep running independently. it did, for two and a half years, until s
25 Apr 2024 Clash Mini — eleven countries ever got to play this one. supercell put clash mini into beta in november 2021 as a board game version of its own characters, kept it
26 Apr 2024 Neofetch — a bash script that did one thing: print an ascii logo of your linux distribution next to a list of what your computer was running. it existed so you c
26 Apr 2024 Goldstar — on 14 february 2002 three e-commerce people in pasadena started selling cheap seats to shows that were not selling out, on the arithmetic that an empt
29 Apr 2024 Nier Re[in]carnation — square enix and applibot's mobile gacha set in the world of nier and nier: automata. the japanese version launched on 18 february 2021 and the western
30 Apr 2024 PangYa — pangya was korean free-to-play golf with anime characters, a cash shop full of outfits, and a three click swing that said the word pangya at you when
30 Apr 2024 BritBox UK — britain is the one market where britbox no longer exists, which is the opposite of what it was built for. the bbc and itv put it up in november 2019 s
30 Apr 2024 FreshEYE — the farewell page is still sitting at fresheye.com and it thanks users for twenty six years. toshiba started the search engine on 30 june 1998 with a
May 2024 Reader's Digest UK — reader's digest uk was the british edition of the american pocket-format monthly, launched in 1938 and pitched at a general home-reader audience for e
1 May 2024 Xamarin — miguel de icaza and nat friedman had already built the same thing twice when attachmate bought novell in 2011 and cut the mono team loose, so on 16 ma
1 May 2024 Kaspien — albany, new york, december 1972: robert higgins starts a record business that becomes a mall empire. forty-eight years later the stores are gone, the
3 May 2024 Subscene — subscene was a search box on top of a pile of text files. it never hosted a single film. people who had already found the film came here for the words
15 May 2024 Rooster Teeth — rooster teeth started on april 1 2003 in austin texas as a six person team making red vs blue, a comedy series shot inside halo with the player charac
15 May 2024 Karhoo — november 2016 is when karhoo died the first time, eight days into the month, having spent a reported quarter of a billion dollars while charging most
15 May 2024 Gorillas — nine months from the first delivery in prenzlauer berg to a unicorn valuation, the fastest in germany. kağan sümer's gorillas put groceries on a berli
18 May 2024 The Wagadu Chronicles — twin drums' afrofantasy mmorpg, an early-access d&d-5e-inspired mmo out of berlin funded on kickstarter and by riot forge. shipped into steam early ac
20 May 2024 LINE Play — line play gave you a character and a room and then sent you to a different app to talk. nhn japan launched it in november 2012 on the back of the mess
21 May 2024 London Studio — sony closed it on 21 may 2024, twenty two years after building it out of two teams it already owned. london studio's job for most of that time was sel
May 2024 mail2web.com — toronto, 1997. softcom put up a page where you typed an email address and a password and read your own mail, with no account to create and nothing to
27 May 2024 Phantom of the Kill — a producer letter in october 2023 announced that there would be no more units and no more story, and that the service would carry on anyway. it carrie
31 May 2024 Mozilla Hubs — mozilla's browser-based vr social platform. you opened a link in firefox or chrome and stepped into a 3d room without a headset required. it launched
31 May 2024 Post News — noam bardin tried to build a quieter twitter for journalists and readers, with per-article tipping instead of subscriptions. 1.4 million signups, eigh
31 May 2024 Spreadsheet.com — mitch kapor, who wrote lotus 1-2-3, was an angel in this one. 170,000 users and more than a thousand paying organizations still were not enough, and m
Jun 2024 Blingee — blingee was a browser tool for adding animated glitter and stamps to photos. launched 2006 as part of the bauer teen network. peaked in the myspace de
Jun 2024 Piranha Bytes — piranha bytes made the same game for twenty three years, in bochum and then essen, with roughly the same small team the whole way through. gothic in 2
Jun 2024 Qubit.tv — buenos aires had a subscription movie service in 2011, the same year netflix crossed into latin america, and qubit.tv spent the next thirteen years ca
1 Jun 2024 Swing Entertainment — a television show made the band and a company was incorporated to hold it. mnet's produce 101 season 2 ended in june 2017 with eleven winners picked b
4 Jun 2024 Adobe Photoshop Mix — adobe shipped photoshop mix in june 2014 as part of the post-touch split, a free ipad app for cutting layers out of one photo and dropping them into a
4 Jun 2024 Adobe Photoshop Camera — adobe announced photoshop camera at MAX 2019 as a free AI camera app powered by adobe sensei. it shipped as a public preview in late 2019, hit general
4 Jun 2024 Adobe Photoshop Fix — photoshop fix was the retouching corner of the post-touch app split. adobe shipped it for iOS in october 2015 with face-aware liquify, healing brushes
12 Jun 2024 Mozilla Location Service — mozilla ran a free geolocation database built out of wifi and cell-tower sightings that firefox users donated by walking around with their phones. by
12 Jun 2024 The Legend of Heroes: Akatsuki no Kiseki — nihon falcom licensed its biggest series out and let somebody else run the online version. userjoy japan opened akatsuki no kiseki on pc on 31 august
14 Jun 2024 Zilog Z80 — federico faggin designed the intel 4004 and the 8080, walked out of intel at the end of 1974, and built a better 8080 with masatoshi shima on exxon mo
14 Jun 2024 OtterTune — andy pavlo spent close to a decade on the idea that a database could tune itself, first as a research system at carnegie mellon and then as a company
17 Jun 2024 Apple Pay Later — apple pay later was apple's first attempt to compete with affirm and klarna directly. the service was announced at wwdc 2022, opened as a US-only prev
20 Jun 2024 Google One VPN — google one vpn was announced in october 2020 as a perk of the $9.99 google one 2tb tier and above, launched initially in the us. it expanded to about
24 Jun 2024 Google Podcasts — google podcasts was the simplest podcast app google had ever shipped. it played podcasts. that was it. then youtube music wanted the podcast slot in t
25 Jun 2024 Coco.gg — isaac steidl put coco.fr up in 2003 and it kept the same shape for twenty-one years: rooms sorted by french department, and no account of any kind to
25 Jun 2024 Alexa Together — nineteen dollars and ninety-nine cents a month bought you the knowledge that your mother had spoken to a speaker this morning. amazon sold that as car
26 Jun 2024 ICQ — the original consumer instant messenger. four israeli developers in tel aviv built it in 1996. its uh-oh sound was the first text notification before
26 Jun 2024 Caffeine — caffeine launched in 2018 as the would-be twitch competitor with the prettier interface and the better latency, founded by two ex-apple-tv designers a
26 Jun 2024 プリ画像 (Puri Gazou) — gmo media switched it off at noon on 26 june 2024, japan time, and took the chat service and the teen news site down in the same minute. prcm.jp had s
26 Jun 2024 ICQmail — for fourteen years this was a webmail you could not join. aol closed the signup door when it sold icq in 2010, and the accounts that already existed k
26 Jun 2024 Longform — max linsky and aaron lammer started a nonfiction reading list in brooklyn in april 2010 and a podcast about the craft two years after that. the readin
27 Jun 2024 ArcheAge (Western) — archeage was jake song's korean sandpark mmo, a sandbox-themepark hybrid released in korea in january 2013 and brought west by trion worlds in septemb
30 Jun 2024 CentOS Linux — centos was red hat enterprise linux with the red hat taken out. same published source, same behavior, no support contract and no invoice. for fifteen
30 Jun 2024 Medical Heritage Library — the medical heritage library was a group of medical libraries that scanned their own shelves and put the results on the internet archive with nothing
30 Jun 2024 abload.de — every image link on a german hardware forum between 2006 and 2024 had a decent chance of pointing here. a small team that started the site in their sc
30 Jun 2024 picdig — a small company in koga, ibaraki opened picdig on 2 august 2021: portfolio hosting for illustrators and manga artists where you applied and were appro
30 Jun 2024 Scientific Linux — fermilab needed red hat enterprise linux without the red hat invoice, on thousands of machines, for experiments that outlive any support contract. so
30 Jun 2024 Boundary — a publisher and a developer spent june 2024 posting about each other on the same steam page. skystone games said it was walking away over missed updat
Jul 2024 Redbox — the last big physical way to rent a movie in america. a bright red kiosk outside the grocery store where a dvd cost a dollar or two a night, run by a
Jul 2024 Submarino — submarino started in 1999 on top of booknet, an online bookstore jack london had opened in brazil in 1995, and it became the first brazilian e-commerc
1 Jul 2024 corega — allied telesis put a consumer arm on the shelf in august 1996 to sell hubs and routers into japanese homes, and for two decades the corega box was the
Jul 2024 A.frame — the academy of motion picture arts and sciences ran a digital magazine for four years with one full-time employee and a freelance budget, which is abo
Jul 2024 KazTube — kazakhstan's presidential broadcasting corporation launched a national video portal in february 2009, to host domestic film and to put the kazakh lang
2 Jul 2024 Shoptime — brazil got its first television channel that existed purely to sell you things in 1995, and the name on it was shoptime. americanas bought the busines
3 Jul 2024 Koo — koo was an indian twitter alternative built around hindi and other indian languages. it launched in march 2020 from bengaluru. the founders aprameya r
8 Jul 2024 Girls in Tech — seventeen years, more than fifty chapters on six continents, a quarter of a million people reached. then an email to 130,000 members in july 2024 sayi
10 Jul 2024 Crackle — crackle was the avod that existed before avod was a category. sony's free ad-supported library, born from grouper networks in 2006, rebranded crackle
10 Jul 2024 Google Domains — google domains was google's domain registrar, launched as an invite-only private beta in june 2014 and a public beta in january 2015. it offered the r
10 Jul 2024 CapFriendly — capfriendly was the direct successor to [[capgeek]] and became the reference nhl contract database for the second half of the 2010s and the first half
10 Jul 2024 Copilot GPT Builder — four months is the whole of it. microsoft put a build-your-own bot tool inside the twenty dollar copilot pro subscription in march 2024, and by june i
13 Jul 2024 Internet Theatre Database — keith scollick put it online in may 1999 and volunteers filled it in for twenty-five years. it was modeled on imdb and pointed at the stage, indexing
16 Jul 2024 Byju's — byju's was india's largest edtech company, founded in 2011 by byju raveendran and divya gokulnath around raveendran's math and physics test-prep video
17 Jul 2024 KnownOrigin — knownorigin was the manchester nft marketplace that ebay bought in june 2022 and then quietly killed two years later. it launched out of a basement in
18 Jul 2024 dbna — du bist nicht allein. a german site for gay and bisexual teenagers ran under that sentence from 1997 until july 2024. it began as a forum and ended as
20 Jul 2024 Classcraft — a physics teacher in sherbrooke, quebec built it for his own classroom in 2013. shawn young gave every student a character with a health bar, and a te
23 Jul 2024 Feedbooks — a paris commercial court signed feedbooks over to a quebec distributor for 230,000 euros on 29 august 2019, after the company had spent fourteen month
23 Jul 2024 PixelMax — manchester, 23 july 2024, a creditors' voluntary liquidation for imagin3d ltd, trading as pixelmax. it had taken two million pounds from praetura in m
23 Jul 2024 Mutation Events — november 2000 is when the w3c made mutation events a recommendation, and the design was understood as a mistake within a few years of shipping. the ev
23 Jul 2024 Tales of the Rays — 2,703 days, a number bandai namco printed in its own farewell post rather than leaving anyone to count it out. the only mobile tales game that went af
24 Jul 2024 Star+ — disney had two things in latin america that would not fit inside a family-branded app, live espn and the fx library. from 31 august 2021 the answer wa
25 Jul 2024 Cloud9 IDE — cloud9 was a browser-based development environment built in amsterdam by rik arends and ruben daniels around 2010. the pitch was a real ide that ran i
29 Jul 2024 Xbox 360 Marketplace — xbox 360 marketplace was microsoft's on-console store, launched with the 360 itself on 22 november 2005 with a starting catalog of 400 items. it hoste
31 Jul 2024 Newton Mail — the paid consumer email app for people who wanted read receipts and snooze functions on every platform they touched. cloudmagic launched the original
31 Jul 2024 Magia Record — the mobile spinoff of puella magi madoka magica made by f4samurai and published by aniplex. the japanese mobile version launched on 22 august 2017 and
31 Jul 2024 WorldCosplay — seven hundred and twenty thousand accounts and six and a half million photographs, in twelve languages, on a site run out of tokyo for a hobby that ha
Aug 2024 Fitocracy — fitocracy was a fitness social network founded in february 2011 by dick talens and brian wang. it gave you points for every workout and levels for eve
1 Aug 2024 Coinbase NFT — coinbase nft was coinbase's attempt at an OpenSea competitor for its already-signed-up user base. it launched to public beta in may 2022 with a waitli
Aug 2024 eBags — ebags was the online luggage store americans went to for two decades. samsonite bought it in 2017, spent a few years turning off every brand that was
1 Aug 2024 ROMhacking.net — nightcrawler started official work in august 2005, months after the two archives the scene depended on had both gone dark. what he built lasted ninete
6 Aug 2024 Chromecast — a thirty-five dollar plastic dongle that plugged into the back of your television and let your phone throw video onto the big screen. google shipped i
7 Aug 2024 Mighty Doom — on 7 may 2024 microsoft closed four game studios in one morning, and the smallest of them was a mobile shop in halifax called alpha dog games. the shu
7 Aug 2024 Ready at Dawn — meta closed ready at dawn on 7 august 2024, four years after buying it and one year after switching off echo vr. long before any of that, the studio s
8 Aug 2024 Cartoonnetwork.com — cartoonnetwork.com launched on july 27 1998 from the same atlanta team running cartoon network. for a quarter century it was the flash-and-shockwave g
9 Aug 2024 Skiff — skiff was the end-to-end encrypted email and docs startup two stanford students built in 2020 and launched publicly in november 2021. the pitch was a
14 Aug 2024 CrowdTangle — crowdtangle started in 2011 as a small dashboard built by brandon silverman and matt garmur to help online activists, then pivoted into a publisher to
14 Aug 2024 Channel3Now — channel3now dressed itself as an american local television station and was run out of lahore. on 29 july 2024 it published a made up name for the seve
Aug 2024 Lego Life — lego built a social network for children and made it safe by taking the words out. you posted a photo of something you had built and you answered othe
20 Aug 2024 Mail.ru Agent — mail.ru agent was the messenger for the russian internet of the 2000s. it launched in may 2003 as an email notifier and grew into a full im client wit
Aug 2024 Fitbit Versa — the fitbit versa was fitbit's mainstream smartwatch, launched 16 april 2018 at $199.95 as the successor to the fitbit ionic. six generations followed
Aug 2024 Fitbit Sense — the fitbit sense was fitbit's flagship health smartwatch, launched 25 september 2020 at $329.95 as a sibling to the versa but with the medical-adjacen
23 Aug 2024 buildspace — farza majeed posted at 17:11 utc on 23 august 2024 that buildspace was closing that day, and gave a reason almost no founder gives. the money was ther
26 Aug 2024 Finale — finale was the music notation program phil farrand wrote for coda music software in 1988, the first tool that let you play a midi keyboard and watch t
27 Aug 2024 AniWave (9anime) — aniwave was the last name of the site most anime fans first knew as 9anime. it ran from 2016 to august 2024, rebranded in early 2023 after ACE served
27 Aug 2024 Forest Page — in 2015 the site was serving 1.8 billion page views a month. nine in ten of the accounts belonged to girls in middle school or high school writing fan
29 Aug 2024 Fmovies — fmovies ran out of hanoi from 2016 to august 2024 and became the biggest movie piracy operation on the internet. 374 million monthly visits at peak, 1
30 Aug 2024 AnandTech — the website you opened when you wanted to know whether a new cpu was actually faster or just had a higher clock. anand lal shimpi founded it in april
30 Aug 2024 Mibbit — mibbit was a browser irc client that gave you a real channel session over a websocket gateway without installing a desktop program. jimmy moore launch
31 Aug 2024 Visual Studio for Mac — visual studio for mac was microsoft's attempt at running its flagship ide brand on macos, built on top of the xamarin studio lineage that started life
Aug 2024 Microsoft Lobe — lobe was a san francisco startup founded in 2015 by mike matas and adam menges, with markus beissinger on the ml side. it built a free desktop app tha
1 Sep 2024 Fig — fig was the ide-style autocomplete for the terminal, founded 2020 at y combinator by brendan falk and team. the pitch was vscode-grade popups for comm
1 Sep 2024 Mildom — douyu japan launched mildom in september 2019 and paid people an hourly rate to stream on it, which no japanese platform had tried at that scale. the
3 Sep 2024 Netladio (ねとらじ) — new year's eve 2001 is the birthday, when one japanese hobbyist put up a streaming relay called rajichannel. the users suggested a better name and in
6 Sep 2024 Concord — concord was a sony first-party hero shooter from firewalk studios, eight years in development, launched on ps5 and pc on 23 august 2024. it sold aroun
9 Sep 2024 Synced — synced was the free-to-play sci-fi co-op looter-shooter that next studios built and tencent's level infinite published in september 2023. it peaked at
16 Sep 2024 TouchArcade — toucharcade launched march 12 2008 as the ios-gaming-news sister site to macrumors, two months ahead of the app store opening. arnold kim and blake pa
19 Sep 2024 TV Cream — tv cream was a british website about british television, written by people who had been children in front of it. it ran for twenty-seven years, indexe
Sep 2024 Party.Space — three founders in kyiv spent the first lockdown building a place you could throw a company party in, and for two years grammarly and wargaming actuall
25 Sep 2024 Amazon Astro for Business — amazon astro for business was a wheeled patrol-and-monitor security robot for small and medium businesses, sold at $2,350 plus a $60/month astro secur
25 Sep 2024 Disney My Little Doll — every date in the wind-down was a twenty-fifth. the notice went up on 25 june 2024 and the app stopped at noon on 25 september, with billing and the s
29 Sep 2024 Kaspersky (US) — the russian antivirus that became one of the third-place consumer AV brands worldwide, then got kicked out of the united states specifically. the comm
30 Sep 2024 Boomerang (streaming) — boomerang streaming was the classic-cartoon app warner ran alongside the linear boomerang cable channel. it launched on 13 april 2017 at $4.99 a month
30 Sep 2024 TVerプラス — a cartoon bean became far more famous than the website it was invented to advertise, and it is the part of this story anyone in japan can still name.
30 Sep 2024 Akiba Souken — the last crawl that found a working page came at 06:05 utc on 30 september 2024. the next one, less than three hours later, got http 410 gone, which i
30 Sep 2024 Atom Publishing Protocol — json took it apart without a vote. rfc 5023 shipped in october 2007 as the standard way to publish and edit resources over http, edited by joe gregori
30 Sep 2024 Oracle Advertising — two billion dollars of revenue in 2022 had become three hundred million by the summer of 2024, and safra catz ended the whole business in one sentence
1 Oct 2024 WordPad — wordpad was the windows accessory that ran for 29 years and did not survive windows 11 24h2. microsoft shipped it with windows 95 on 24 august 1995 as
Oct 2024 Socratic — socratic started in 2013 as a website where students posted math and science questions and other people answered them, then became a phone app that re
1 Oct 2024 Flipgrid (Flip) — a media lab at the university of minnesota built it in january 2014 and charged teachers a subscription to use it. microsoft bought the company in jun
1 Oct 2024 Hakuna Live — match group bought hyperconnect in 2021 for the video technology and the dating-app roadmap, and hakuna live came along in the box. it was a korean li
Oct 2024 Koinup — brescia, march 2007: two italians built a photo-sharing site for people who took pictures inside virtual worlds. koinup indexed second life and a doze
Oct 2024 Guzei.com — igor guzey started a list of moscow radio stations in 1995 on a staff account at moscow state university and was still running it twenty nine years la
Oct 2024 Technorealism — on 12 march 1998 twelve american technology writers published eight principles about how to think clearly about the internet, and twenty-five hundred
Oct 2024 Guildlings — asher vollmer made threes, co-founded a studio on the strength of it, and spent the money on an eleven-person adventure game about teenagers and a pho
2024 JackThreads — a bedroom in columbus, ohio in 2008, then thrillist money, then a $54 million round, then a farewell sale in may 2017 with everything at 70 percent of
7 Oct 2024 Curious Cat — curious cat was a link in your twitter bio that let anybody ask you something with no name attached to it, which is the same bargain formspring and as
14 Oct 2024 000webhost — 13,545,468 accounts, each with an email address and a password stored in plain text: that is what leaked from 000webhost in 2015, and it is what most
15 Oct 2024 PLAY Magazine — PLAY was the last of the future publishing PlayStation print line. it began in november 1995 as the official uk playstation magazine, shipping with th
21 Oct 2024 Microsoft Surface Duo — surface duo was microsoft's quiet return to phone hardware, four years after microsoft wrote off the lumia line. it was a dual-screen android device w
22 Oct 2024 CodeProject — codeproject launched in november 1999 in toronto, founded by chris maunder and david cunningham as an article archive for visual c++ and mfc developer
22 Oct 2024 Postbox — postbox was a paid desktop email client written by the mozilla developers who had been running thunderbird until mozilla lost interest in it. it launc
22 Oct 2024 Miríadax — seven million course enrolments, and the notice that ended it was one line of text above the search box. telefónica learning services opened miríadax
29 Oct 2024 Armageddon MUD — three people in urbana, illinois put a dikumud on the wire in 1991 and set it on zalanthas, a desert world where water is the currency and dying is pe
30 Oct 2024 The King of Fighters All Star — fourteen million players in korea and japan had already collected something like a hundred million fighters before netmarble took the game global in o
31 Oct 2024 Microsoft Mover — mover.io was an edmonton startup founded around 2012 by eric warnke and others, building a web tool that moved files from any cloud storage provider i
31 Oct 2024 Chollian — chollian was the first of korea's four pc communication services and the last one to die. it began in october 1985 as a videotex trial at dacom, opene
31 Oct 2024 Accord's Library — in April 2024 yoko taro sent a thank-you note to the volunteers who had spent three years cataloging the books, drama cds and stage plays attached to
4 Nov 2024 Microsoft Paint 3D — microsoft paint 3d was the app microsoft put in the windows 10 start menu in april 2017 to make 3d modeling feel as normal as the classic paint progra
Nov 2024 Bowery Farming — bowery farming was new york's vertical-farming unicorn founded in 2015 by irving fain. it ran indoor farms in new jersey and maryland growing leafy gr
7 Nov 2024 LocalMonero — april 2017 gave the monero community its own version of localbitcoins: no verified accounts, no exchange holding the coins while two strangers agreed
10 Nov 2024 Empire Avenue — empire avenue launched out of edmonton on february 23 of 2010 as a virtual stock market where you bought and sold shares in other people based on thei
11 Nov 2024 Veoh — veoh was the second-tier video sharing site of the 2006-2010 era. it was bigger than blip.tv and revver, smaller than youtube, and the differentiator
11 Nov 2024 Microsoft Start — microsoft tried to retire msn in 2021 by calling the news feed microsoft start. for three years it shipped that name across edge, windows widgets and
12 Nov 2024 Forward Health — forward was an ex-google-founder's attempt to rebuild the doctor's office as a monthly-subscription tech product. adrian aoun founded it in 2017 in sa
12 Nov 2024 Artery Gear: Fusion — on 13 august 2024 bilibili turned off the payment button and pulled the game from every store at once. the servers followed on 12 november at noon, ev
15 Nov 2024 Omnivore — omnivore was the open-source, agpl-licensed read-later app jackson harper and hongbo wu shipped in 2022. it was free, had no ads, ran on web and ios.
15 Nov 2024 TakeLessons — takelessons started in san diego in 2006 as a way to find somebody within driving distance who could teach you guitar, and grew into a marketplace for
22 Nov 2024 Ondsel — open core ventures, the fund started by gitlab's sid sijbrandij, put money and a founder behind a simple proposition in january 2023: take freecad, th
24 Nov 2024 Delicious Library — wil shipley posted in november 2024 that amazon had shut off the feed delicious library used to look up items, and that nobody had told him. he pulled
25 Nov 2024 Garnek.pl — poland got a photo site in 2007 that refused to let you sort anything. no albums, no folders: you uploaded and it all went into the same pot, which is
26 Nov 2024 PlayStation VR — five million of these shipped between october 2016 and the end of 2019, which made it the best selling headset of its console generation and also the
28 Nov 2024 Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp — nintendo put animal crossing on phones and hung leaf tickets off every timer in it. seven years of campsite decorating and fortune cookies produced mo
28 Nov 2024 TikTok Music — five countries ever got this one and none of them was the united states. bytedance built a paid streaming app on top of the largest music discovery en
30 Nov 2024 wiki.vg — tyler kennedy put the minecraft alpha protocol on a personal dokuwiki in 2010 because mojang had promised a modding api with documentation and then ne
Dec 2024 Renren — renren was china's facebook for the late 2000s university generation. it launched in december 2005 as xiaonei.com (literally 'on-campus network') and
1 Dec 2024 Ask.fm — ask.fm launched on june 16 2010 in riga, latvia, founded by brothers ilja and mark terebin with three other co-founders. the format was an open inbox
Dec 2024 Odd Todd — todd rosenberg lost his job in june 2001 and put a flash cartoon called laid off: a day in the life on the web that november. it was about doing nothi
Dec 2024 ExitMundi.nl — "captivating text and appropriate images... delivered with unremitting good cheer. but still, you are gonna die." new scientist's line sat on the fron
9 Dec 2024 Spotify Car Thing — spotify car thing was a 90 dollar dashboard touchscreen that played spotify in your car. it shipped in february 2022. by july 2022 spotify had stopped
10 Dec 2024 Microsoft HoloLens (1st Gen) — hololens 1 was a self-contained windows 10 ar headset, no tether, no phone, no host pc. microsoft sold it to developers and enterprises for three thou
10 Dec 2024 Cruise — cruise was a general-motors-owned autonomous ride service that ran driverless robotaxis in san francisco and a handful of us metros. on 2 october 2023
11 Dec 2024 My Yahoo! — my yahoo was yahoo's customizable portal homepage, launched july 15 1996 as a per-user version of the main yahoo directory. you picked modules from a
12 Dec 2024 Chartable — for six years the default answer to how is my podcast doing was a dashboard owned by nobody in particular. spotify bought chartable in february 2022 a
15 Dec 2024 Foursquare City Guide — foursquare was the check-in game. you tapped a button on your phone when you got somewhere and earned points against every friend who did the same. de
16 Dec 2024 Tinychat — tinychat launched in february 2009 as a way to open a video chatroom inside a browser tab. by 2011 it was raising money from ashton kutcher and diddy.
16 Dec 2024 Microsoft Delve — delve was microsoft's 2014 bet that the office graph could power a facebook-style feed of the documents and people you needed to see inside office 365
16 Dec 2024 Disney Mirrorverse — five million people installed it inside two months and the math still never closed. kabam turned mickey mouse into a sorcerer, gave every other disney
16 Dec 2024 CongressEdits — an ip address inside the us capitol complex edited a wikipedia article, and a bot announced it in public. that was the entire product. ed summers wrot
17 Dec 2024 Mozilla.social — in december 2022 mozilla said it was joining the fediverse, and plenty of people looking for a way off twitter read that as the cavalry arriving. the
24 Dec 2024 Lilium — lilium was a munich-based electric VTOL air-taxi startup founded in 2015 by four engineers out of TU munich. the lilium jet used 36 electric ducted fa
26 Dec 2024 Imperial SaGa Eclipse — square enix lost one browser game because adobe retired flash, so it built the replacement in html5 where that could not happen twice. the replacement
26 Dec 2024 Togech — the first article was a photograph of cats curled up together, filed at six seconds past midnight on 1 march 2013. for nine years togech was the light
29 Dec 2024 NETCOMICS — netcomics put korean manhwa in english on the web in 2006 and charged by the chapter, at a moment when the rest of comics was still arguing about whet
30 Dec 2024 8tracks — the playlist site for people who still thought of mixtapes as a love language. you uploaded eight or more tracks, named the mix, tagged it with a mood
31 Dec 2024 Magic Leap One — magic leap one was the consumer-AR headset that was supposed to make wide-area-tracked goggles a normal thing. it launched in august 2018 after seven
31 Dec 2024 Google Jamboard — jamboard was google's swing at the conference-room hardware market, a 55-inch 4k touchscreen sold for around 5,000 dollars plus a free ios and android
31 Dec 2024 Windows Mail and Calendar — the metro-style mail and calendar apps that shipped with windows 8 in 2012. they were the default for twelve years across four windows versions. on de
Dec 2024 Wynk Music — wynk music was bharti airtel's india-only music streaming app, launched on 1 september 2014 and bundled free for airtel mobile subscribers. it carried
2024 Repod — emmett harper and travis osterhaus' social podcast player, launched around november 2019. an episode-first ios app with an upvote-and-comment feed sha
31 Dec 2024 InVision — invision was the design tool that a lot of software teams ran their prototypes through in the middle 2010s. you uploaded screens, wired them together
31 Dec 2024 Friday the 13th: The Game — illfonic and gun media crowdfunded an asymmetric horror game where seven camp counselors ran from one jason voorhees, and it sold 1.8 million copies i
31 Dec 2024 GeldKarte — the average geldkarte payment was three euros. that is most of the story of a german chip purse launched in 1996, peaked in 2007, and still physically
2024 DealsPlus — dealspl.us was the address for seven years, because the real one was taken and a 2010 arbitration refused to hand it over. the site bought dealsplus.c
31 Dec 2024 Pikmin Finder — on 1 september 2023 nintendo put a free augmented-reality game on the open web, built on niantic's 8th wall platform and timed to a nintendo live even

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1 Jan 2023 Dark Sky — dark sky was a weather app that told you when it was about to rain in the next ten minutes. it cost three dollars and ninety-nine cents and people kep
1 Jan 2023 Jinx.com — jinx (stylized as J!NX) launched in 1999 as a home business run by san diego web developers sean gailey and tim norris, hand-printing shirts for count
2023 Nexopia — nexopia was a canadian teen social network started in edmonton in february 2003 by an eighteen-year-old named timo ewalds, who built it out of an earl
2023 We Heart It — we heart it was the image curation site fabio giolito built in brazil on january 3 2008 as a personal weekend project. by 2011 it had moved to san fra
2023 Archie — archie was the first search engine on the internet, four years before there was a web to search. alan emtage built it as a postgraduate at mcgill in m
Jan 2023 HTTPS Everywhere — a browser extension from the electronic frontier foundation and the tor project that rewrote http links to https before the request left your machine,
2023 NetMarket — on 11 august 1994 a man in philadelphia named phil brandenberger paid twelve dollars and forty-eight cents for a sting cd, and the new york times ran
2023 WikiPilipinas — manila, 12 june 2007, philippine independence day: a publishing house switched on an encyclopedia forked from fifteen thousand wikipedia articles and
2023 Lot18 — forty three million dollars went into a wine site in thirteen months, which tells you what late 2011 felt like if you were selling something at a disc
Jan 2023 Twitterfall — in february 2009 a national newspaper projected it onto the wall of its own newsroom, one month after two computer science students at the university
Jan 2023 Everyday Robots — more than a hundred wheeled robots with a single arm each learned to wipe cafeteria tables and sort trash inside alphabet's own buildings. not one of
5 Jan 2023 Google Question Hub — google built a tool whose entire content was the holes in its own index. question hub collected the search queries that came back with nothing useful
8 Jan 2023 Gemini Earn — 340,000 people had money in it. gemini earn paid interest on crypto deposits by lending them to genesis global capital, and when genesis paused withdr
8 Jan 2023 LeaveHomeSafe — hong kong put a printed qr code on every restaurant door in november 2020 and told you to scan it before sitting down. by january 2022 the same app ca
10 Jan 2023 Spellbreak — proletariat spent three years building a battle royale with the guns taken out, where you wore an elemental gauntlet on one arm and picked the second
10 Jan 2023 Windows 8 — microsoft shipped a tablet interface to four hundred million desktop machines that had no touch screens and took the start button off the taskbar for
11 Jan 2023 Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier — square enix said it had not been able to deliver the experience it hoped for, which is the standard sentence, and closed the first soldier on 11 janua
18 Jan 2023 Twitter Revue — revue started in utrecht in 2015 as a quiet substack peer for writers and publishers. twitter bought it in january 2021, glued newsletter signup butto
18 Jan 2023 Google Stadia — stadia was google's swing at netflix-for-games. it streamed up to 4k from a google data center to a chrome tab, with a wifi controller talking direct
19 Jan 2023 Tweetbot — tapbots, a tiny two-person studio, shipped tweetbot for iphone on 14 april 2011. it cost real money in a category where every other app was free. an i
19 Jan 2023 Twitterrific — the iconfactory shipped twitterrific for the mac on 15 january 2007, less than a year after twitter launched. it introduced the word "tweet" to descri
19 Jan 2023 Echofon — echofon started as twitterfox, kazuho okui's 2007 firefox extension for browsing twitter without leaving the page. it renamed in 2009 alongside a sibl
19 Jan 2023 Genesis Global Capital — when ftx fell over in november 2022, the largest institutional crypto lender in the business stopped letting anyone take money out. barry silbert's di
21 Jan 2023 Freshly — nestle paid $950 million for freshly in october 2020, with up to $550 million more promised against targets, and shut it twenty-six months later. the
25 Jan 2023 Snap Camera — snap camera was snap inc's free desktop app for windows and macos, released in september 2018. it registered a virtual webcam on the operating system
27 Jan 2023 Drobo — geoff barrall's pitch in 2005 was that raid asked ordinary people to understand raid, and it should not have to. the drobo took mismatched drives in a
Jan 2023 Facebook Bulletin — facebook bulletin was meta's newsletter platform, launched 6 july 2021 to attack substack while substack was still the hot creator product. bulletin g
31 Jan 2023 Pandora TV — peter kim launched pandora.tv in october 2004, seven months before youtube went live. it was korea's first video-sharing site and the first anywhere t
31 Jan 2023 Webry Blog — on 22 march 2004 nec's internet provider opened a blog host for anyone with a free biglobe id, and mailed a printed beginner's guide to whoever asked
31 Jan 2023 eOldal.hu — central médiacsoport put the notice on its own blog on 7 october 2022 and named 1 february 2023 as the day everything left on the servers would be del
31 Jan 2023 SciGraph — linked open data was supposed to be how the scholarly record finally talked to itself, and springer nature was one of the few publishers that actually
31 Jan 2023 Upsource — jetbrains stopped selling upsource on 1 february 2022 and stopped supporting it a year later to the day, which is about as orderly as a software death
Feb 2023 Deletionpedia — deletionpedia opened in february 2008 as a wikimorgue. a bot watched english wikipedia's deletion log and kept a public copy of every article that got
Feb 2023 Mycroft AI — a non-practicing patent entity called voice tech corporation sued a company of four people in kansas city in 2020, and eventually dropped the case. by
1 Feb 2023 Stripperweb — 74 members in january 2002, 251,432 by january 2023, and in between the largest body of written knowledge the american adult-entertainment workforce e
1 Feb 2023 ProgrammableWeb — forty public apis fit in the directory when john musser started it in 2005. seventeen years later it listed more than nineteen thousand, and mulesoft
3 Feb 2023 Replika (pre-2023 romantic era) — the AI girlfriend and boyfriend app whose users built years-long relationships with their bots. on february 3 2023 luka removed the romantic features
3 Feb 2023 Zenly — zenly was the friend-location app that a generation of european and southeast-asian teenagers used as their default group-chat backbone between 2017 a
3 Feb 2023 Exclu — on 3 february 2023 police in four countries went through seventy nine addresses at the same hour and switched off exclu, an encrypted messaging servic
Feb 2023 iKeepBookmarks — twenty-three years is a long run for a free web service that nobody wrote about. the site put your browser favorites on a server so you could reach th
Feb 2023 Yammer — yammer was the work social network nobody was sure they wanted. david sacks and adam pisoni spun it out of geni in 2008, won techcrunch50 that septemb
9 Feb 2023 LocalBitcoins — localbitcoins was helsinki-based and ran the actual peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace for eleven years. no order book. people posted ads, met in cafes
16 Feb 2023 Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! — king spent a crash bandicoot license on an endless runner and got the biggest launch week in its history outside candy crush. twenty seven million dow
16 Feb 2023 Order & Chaos 2: Redemption — gameloft's beijing studio spent the first half of the 2010s building a world of warcraft for telephones, and then built it a second time. order & chao
20 Feb 2023 AmazonSmile — amazonsmile launched in 2013 as a version of the amazon storefront that donated 0.5% of eligible purchases to a charity the shopper picked. over a dec
27 Feb 2023 Babylon's Fall — platinumgames spent five years turning a bayonetta studio into a live service studio, and square enix published the result on 3 march 2022. the all-ti
28 Feb 2023 Rumbleverse — iron galaxy built a battle royale with no firearms in it. forty players dropped into a city and hit each other with chairs until one was standing, and
28 Feb 2023 Sony LocationFree — 28 february 2023 is when sony turned off net av, the piece that let a locationfree base station reach you from outside your own house. the last box ha
28 Feb 2023 Aeria Games — in january 2012 aeria games bought ijji and moved ten million accounts onto its own logins. eleven years later gamigo did the same thing to aeria, and
Mar 2023 Arabul — arabul opened in 1998 as a turkish search box bolted onto a hand-sorted category tree, and for a few years it tried to be a portal, with chat rooms an
1 Mar 2023 Feed Wrangler — feed wrangler was one of the paid rss services that sprang up the summer google killed reader in 2013. it was built by david smith, an independent ios
1 Mar 2023 Triposo — three ex-google engineers decided in 2011 that a travel guide should be assembled by software rather than written by a person, and built one that stil
1 Mar 2023 Keybase Sites — zoom bought keybase in may 2020 and then simply let it sit. the hosting layer went first. keybase.pub, which turned the public folder of your encrypte
Mar 2023 Inverse Symbolic Calculator — burnaby, british columbia, 18 july 1995: a university research group put a table of fifty four million constants on the web and let anyone paste in a
Mar 2023 Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbarizing — a hundred yen bought one card and one fight, and between 2013 and 2023 that transaction happened in supermarket corners and game centers all over japa
3 Mar 2023 Embark Trucks — embark trucks was a san francisco autonomous-trucking startup founded in 2016 by alex rodrigues and brandon moak, both ycombinator winter 2016 alumni
5 Mar 2023 Oculus Quest — on 5 march 2023 meta switched off the social features on the first oculus quest. no more parties, no more visiting anyone else's home, no more invites
6 Mar 2023 Recode — recode was a technology news site built around two bylines and one conference. kara swisher and walt mossberg launched it on 2 january 2014, days afte
8 Mar 2023 Anchor — Anchor was the podcast hosting app that promised anyone could start a show in three taps. spotify bought it in 2019 for around 150 million dollars, ra
8 Mar 2023 PopJam — at ten in the morning london time, on 8 march 2023, an app full of children's drawings stopped taking posts. mind candy had built popjam in 2014 while
10 Mar 2023 AltspaceVR — altspacevr was the social platform you visited if you owned a vr headset and wanted to be in the same room as another human inside it. eric romo found
14 Mar 2023 PotterCast — episode 130 got j.k. rowling on the phone, which made pottercast the first podcast ever to interview her, and she liked it enough to record the show's
15 Mar 2023 ChipMixer — chipmixer opened in august 2017 and ran a bitcoin tumbler with no accounts and no records. you sent coins in and got back chips, fixed denominations t
16 Mar 2023 Hypermart — ten megabytes, a real CGI directory and no bill, paid for by a banner the host wrote into the top of every page you published. go2net ran hypermart fr
21 Mar 2023 Reddit Talk — reddit talk was reddit's clubhouse competitor. the live-audio rooms feature launched on april 19 2021 at the peak of the social-audio craze, ran for a
21 Mar 2023 Google Street View (app) — google gave street view its own app on 3 september 2015, mostly so that ordinary people would contribute photo spheres to the map. for seven years tha
27 Mar 2023 Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShop — the 3ds and wii u eshops were nintendo's first proper digital storefronts. the 3ds version launched in june 2011 and the wii u version in november 201
27 Mar 2023 Salto — three french broadcasters who compete with each other every night of the week agreed in june 2018 to build one streaming service together. the competi
27 Mar 2023 WorldCat Identities — thom hickey was oclc's chief scientist and he wanted to know what a library catalog could say about a person if nobody wrote a word of it by hand. wor
28 Mar 2023 Digital Planet — august 2001, the world service put a weekly technology show on air and people inside the bbc wondered whether there would be enough stories to fill mo
29 Mar 2023 NVIDIA GameStream — nvidia spent a decade advertising the shield as the box that would play the games already sitting on your pc, then shipped an app update that removed
30 Mar 2023 The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls — eleven years and four months on a platform built for flip phones. launched on dena's mobage in november 2011 as a card game with no animation and almo
30 Mar 2023 LINE CLOVA — barcelona, march 2017: line announced a cloud ai platform called clova at mobile world congress, built with naver, and promised japan a smart speaker
31 Mar 2023 LINE Live — line live was a livestreaming service launched in december 2015 by line corporation under the slogan "live is real." it ran for seven and a half years
31 Mar 2023 Zippyshare — zippyshare was the polish-run cyberlocker that lived from 2006 to 2023. forty-five million monthly visits at its peak. the blue download button at the
31 Mar 2023 GYAO! — gyao! was the free ad-supported japanese streaming service that launched in april 2005 as a usen broadband experiment. it took the usen-yahoo-japan jo
31 Mar 2023 JD.ID — jd.id was the indonesian storefront of jd.com, china's number two online retailer, launched in 2015 to take on the local giants. it raised its way to
31 Mar 2023 Blim TV — televisa owned mexican television the way almost nobody owns a national medium anymore, and in 2016 it pointed that at streaming. blim launched at 109
31 Mar 2023 Love Live! School Idol Festival — a phone rhythm game attached to an anime, which turned into the thing the anime was attached to. it launched in japan in april 2013, went worldwide in
31 Mar 2023 PHS (Personal Handy-phone System) — china named it after a boy in a science fiction novel. xiaolingtong, little smart, the kid from ye yonglie's story who travels to the future, became t
31 Mar 2023 kividoo — cologne built a netflix for six-year-olds and ran it for eight years. kividoo was super rtl's hedge against the day children stopped watching televisi
31 Mar 2023 Tate Anime / Anime Beans — production i.g shipped the first anime service built for a phone held upright on 5 june 2017 and called it タテアニメ. three minute episodes, a new one eve
31 Mar 2023 Mojvideo — a video site in a language two million people speak opened in november 2006, a year after youtube's official launch, and ran for sixteen more years. m
31 Mar 2023 TigerDirect — two dead american retail chains are buried at this address. systemax bought the compusa and circuit city names out of their wreckage and folded both i
31 Mar 2023 ANA SKiP Service — about half of ana's domestic passengers used it, and that share had not moved in years. skip deleted the check-in counter: you booked and chose your s
Apr 2023 Gigablast — matt wells left infoseek, went home to albuquerque and spent two decades building a search engine that crawled the web itself rather than reselling so
Apr 2023 DatPiff — datpiff was where the mixtape went after it stopped being a physical object. free to upload and free to download, with no label and no sample clearanc
Apr 2023 GOV.UK Verify — the government digital service put it into public beta on 14 october 2014 and live in may 2016, with private companies doing the identity checking and
Apr 2023 WEB Comic High! — august 2008, and futabasha put a web spinoff of its comic high! magazine online with no account to make and no viewer to install. it ran shojo-style m
4 Apr 2023 Genesis Market — a dollar bought a working copy of somebody else's browser. genesis market sold what it called bots. a bot was the cookies and saved logins of a real i
10 Apr 2023 Dream SMP — two youtubers opened a private minecraft server in april 2020 for a handful of friends and it turned into a serialized drama with thirty characters an
Apr 2023 Instagram NFTs — stephane kasriel, meta's commerce and fintech lead, posted on 13 march 2023 that the company was winding down digital collectibles for now. that was t
13 Apr 2023 WeVPN — 13 april 2023 is the day wevpn's homepage stopped selling anything and started apologizing. the service was three years old, run out of the british vi
15 Apr 2023 PinoyExchange — pex was the philippine web's town square from 1999 to roughly the early 2010s, when facebook and twitter took the conversations elsewhere. michael nol
15 Apr 2023 Grex — ann arbor had a bbs whose owner kept threatening to turn it off, so a dozen of its users spent six months in weekly meetings designing one he could no
15 Apr 2023 RootsWeb WorldConnect — on 10 november 1999 rootsweb announced a free place to put your family tree, after a four-week test in which its own staff and users pushed 5.5 millio
20 Apr 2023 Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow — tinyco built a freemium city builder out of new new york, hired the show's own writers to script it, and got the original cast to voice it. that made
20 Apr 2023 Paper.li — thirteen years of other people's links, bound every morning into a front page and announced by an automatic tweet that credited you whether you had as
26 Apr 2023 Tianya Club — tianya club was the largest of china's first-wave bulletin boards, founded in haikou on february 14 1999. it ran BBS forums alongside a later blog and
26 Apr 2023 Book Depository — the whole product was one line of copy: free delivery worldwide, no minimum order. if you lived outside the english-speaking world that line was the d
26 Apr 2023 Facebook Watch — 1.25 billion monthly visitors in september 2020, forty six percent of everyone on facebook, and hardly anybody can name a single thing it made. meta p
27 Apr 2023 Clubhouse — the app that turned the lockdown into a giant conference call you actually wanted to join. clubhouse was audio only and invite only, a live room full
27 Apr 2023 Invisibilia — march 2023 was the month npr cut ten percent of its staff against a budget hole of more than thirty million dollars, and four podcasts went into the h
28 Apr 2023 Sakura Ignoramus — on 24 march 2023 marvelous published a notice about an operating loss and a revised full-year forecast, twenty-five days after putting a new phone gam
29 Apr 2023 Gimme Radio — gimme radio was an internet radio station for metal, built on the idea that the person choosing the next song should be a person. it launched from san
30 Apr 2023 Spotify Greenroom — spotify greenroom was a clubhouse clone built on the betty labs acquisition. spotify paid about fifty million dollars for the technology in march 2021
30 Apr 2023 FileFront — filefront was where you went to find the map, the mod, the patch. it died once in 2009 under ziff davis, came back, died again in 2016 under defy medi
30 Apr 2023 Tiscali — tiscali was a sardinian phone bill that briefly convinced itself it was europe's internet. renato soru launched it in cagliari in 1998 and gave italy
May 2023 Windows Genuine Advantage — windows genuine advantage was microsoft's anti-piracy system for windows XP and vista. launched july 25 2005, the notifications tool followed on april
May 2023 Misfit Wearables — misfit wearables was a 2011 san francisco hardware startup that made small coin-shaped fitness trackers, the shine, the ray, the flash. fossil bought
May 2023 NoiseTrade — noisetrade was a nashville direct-to-fan music and book distribution platform founded in april 2008 by derek webb. the trade was simple: an artist upl
1 May 2023 Storybook Brawl — four magic: the gathering pros in olympia, washington built an auto battler out of fairy tale cards and put it into early access in june 2021. ftx bou
1 May 2023 Luminous Productions — 27 march 2018 to 1 may 2023 is five years and five weeks, and one game. square enix spun luminous productions out of the final fantasy xv team to buil
May 2023 AdFly — linkvertise, a rival in the same trade, bought adfly in 2022 and spent six months telling its publishers to move. adfly was the url shortener that pai
1 May 2023 OverDrive Media Console — libby killed it, and libby was built by the same people in the same building. the overdrive app carried a public library's ebook and audiobook collect
2 May 2023 big big channel — hong kong's dominant broadcaster watched twitch and youtube take its audience, then built its own version and stocked it with its own contract artists
3 May 2023 Clash (clash.me) — i never used clash. by the time it launched in august 2020 i was 36, working as an engineer, and the entire short-form-video creator subgenre had pa
3 May 2023 VRV — vrv sold a cable package with the cable taken out. one subscription, a dozen small channels inside a single app, each one aimed at an audience too nar
5 May 2023 BuzzFeed News — buzzfeed news was the part of buzzfeed that took itself seriously. ben smith was hired from politico in late 2011 to build it, and over the next decad
5 May 2023 Heardle — one second of intro, a longer snippet for each miss, six tries to name the song. a small london studio put it online on 26 february 2022 in the wake o
8 May 2023 Spinrilla — fifty million dollars and a worldwide ban on ever building anything like it again. that was the price jeffery copeland agreed to on 3 may 2023, and fi
9 May 2023 MTV News — mtv news started as the week in rock with kurt loder in 1987 and became one of the few places americans got music news from a familiar on-screen face.
10 May 2023 LaMDA — blake lemoine spent 2022 reading lamda's answers about death and personhood, concluded it was sentient, hired it a lawyer and got fired. that is the o
10 May 2023 GeekTools — in 1998, finding out who owned a domain meant knowing which of dozens of registry servers to ask. geektools answered that from a web form by choosing
11 May 2023 Numa Numa — gary brolsma was eighteen when he pointed a webcam at himself in december 2004 and lip-synced an o-zone song from the shoulders up. it reached roughly
15 May 2023 Echoes of Mana — four million downloads by september 2022, and the end was announced the following february. echoes of mana launched on 27 april 2022 as square enix's
15 May 2023 Akan Wikipedia — akan is not a language. it is the family that twi and fante sit inside, and in 2004 somebody opened a wikipedia for it anyway. for nineteen years the
18 May 2023 CrossfireX — fifteen months, start to finish. it arrived on xbox on 10 february 2022 carrying the name of a game with six hundred and fifty million registered play
25 May 2023 Vice News Tonight — ten days after vice media filed for chapter 11, the newscast it had built to prove the company was serious aired its last episode and went off. vice n
31 May 2023 AddThis — addthis was the row of colored share buttons at the bottom of every article on the western web from about 2008 to 2016. a small js include, a share di
31 May 2023 RARBG — rarbg ran torrent listings out of bulgaria for fifteen years and collected court-ordered blocks in a dozen countries, which cost its users about the l
31 May 2023 Dyn / DynDNS — a sixteen-year-old put free dynamic dns on the internet in 1998 so he could reach a printer from off campus, and it turned into the company holding th
31 May 2023 Sameroom — lechat inc. spent two years building a team chat product called kato and lost to slack. instead of closing, it started selling the connection between
Jun 2023 IRL — irl was a group-messaging app that told investors it had twenty million monthly users on the way to a 1.2 billion dollar valuation. most of those user
Jun 2023 Bountysource — the blockchain group filed for bankruptcy in november 2023, five months after the platform it owned had gone quiet on every developer waiting to be pa
Jun 2023 Xilinx — ross freeman had an idea in 1984: sell a chip blank and let the customer decide afterward what it does. his company sold that idea for thirty-nine yea
2023 Entale — wil harris came out of condé nast's british digital operation with one idea and spent six years on it: a podcast should have something worth looking a
Jun 2023 Zume — four hundred and forty five million dollars went into a company whose central insight was that the oven should travel with the order. the robots worke
2 Jun 2023 Neeva — neeva was a paid, ad-free, privacy-first search engine built by two ex-google ads executives. it launched to the us public in june 2021 for $4.95 a mo
2 Jun 2023 Blaseball — a sport nobody played and hundreds of thousands of people followed. blaseball simulated a full season of a fake baseball league every week in your bro
2 Jun 2023 PixelOpus — an unannounced game with sony pictures animation was still in production when sony closed the studio making it. pixelopus opened in july 2013 as a stu
5 Jun 2023 Parcast — parcast was a true-crime and conspiracy podcast factory built by max and ron cutler in los angeles. forty plus daily and weekly shows. spotify bought
5 Jun 2023 Pokémon Trading Card Game Online — the pokemon company's own free client for its own card game, launched in march 2011 as a browser thing called trainer challenge and grown into a deskt
5 Jun 2023 Splice Studio — version control for music, free, aimed at two producers passing a session back and forth instead of mailing each other zip files. splice was built aro
6 Jun 2023 Knockout City — knockout city was a team dodgeball game, bright and fast, where you caught and threw balls at the other side in tight arenas. velan studios made it an
13 Jun 2023 Google Conversational Actions — google opened the assistant to outside developers on 8 december 2016, and by january 2019 there were 4,253 third-party actions in the united states ag
15 Jun 2023 Grasshopper (Google) — area 120 was google's in-house incubator, and grasshopper was the one thing it made that a beginner could name. it taught javascript in puzzles small
16 Jun 2023 Egloos — egloos launched on june 23, 2003 in south korea, founded by tatter and company. the platform organized its bloggers into themed valleys, around twenty
16 Jun 2023 SubRocks — at around ten at night on 16 june 2023 somebody exploited subrocks and deleted the whole directory. no backup existed. the site was a careful reconstr
20 Jun 2023 ai_sponge — on 5 march 2023 an anonymous person pointed a text generator and a voice cloner at character models ripped out of a 2003 playstation game and left the
21 Jun 2023 ARTDOXA — sixteen years of posted artwork ended on a wednesday in june 2023, on a page 250 pixels wide that said thank you for your participation and sympathy.
22 Jun 2023 Adobe XD — adobe XD was adobe's answer to sketch, announced as project comet at adobe MAX in october 2015 and shipped as a public beta on march 14 2016 under the
25 Jun 2023 Petal Search — washington cut huawei off from google mobile services in 2019 and the phones still had to ship, so huawei wrote its own search. petal search reached 1
26 Jun 2023 YouTube Stories — youtube stories arrived on 29 november 2017 under the name reels, three years before instagram put that word on something else. it was a stories clone
28 Jun 2023 Yandex Q — antonina samsonova was a journalist who wanted a russian quora, so she launched thequestion in march 2015 and had it past sixteen million monthly visi
28 Jun 2023 GAME Atsumaru — one of the games hosted here recorded 4.6 million plays and later went to steam. the platform under it did not make it that far. dwango opened game at
29 Jun 2023 LINE BLOG — line opened a blogging platform for japanese celebrities on 4 november 2014 and let everybody else in two years later, which is the normal order of op
29 Jun 2023 bit.io — fifteen thousand people and thirty thousand postgres databases, built on the idea that making a database should cost one click and no signup. databric
30 Jun 2023 Apollo for Reddit — christian selig made the best reddit client of the 2010s as a side project that turned into his only job. for almost six years apollo was the reason a
30 Jun 2023 Reddit is Fun — rif was the android reddit client. andrew shu (u/talklittle) shipped the first version in april 2010 and ran it as a one-developer product for thirtee
30 Jun 2023 Sync for Reddit — sync for reddit was a single-developer android client for reddit, started by ljdawson in 2012 as a free app then expanded into paid pro tiers. it was
30 Jun 2023 Poparazzi — alex and austen ma spent three years iterating ttyl inc into one final app called poparazzi, where you could not post a photo of yourself, only friend
30 Jun 2023 JumpStart (online) — knowledge adventure took the jumpstart cd-rom brand from the nineties and rebuilt it as a browser mmo for grade-schoolers in 2009. it ran for fourteen
30 Jun 2023 Paravi — six japanese media companies, tbs and tv tokyo among them, put money into one holding company in july 2017 and opened paravi on 1 april 2018. the poin
30 Jun 2023 BaconReader — reddit set the price at twenty-four cents per thousand api calls and every third-party client did the same arithmetic. baconreader was the odd one in
30 Jun 2023 The Witcher: Monster Slayer — half a million downloads in the first three days and over a hundred million monsters killed before the end, which reads like a hit and was not one. sp
30 Jun 2023 ЯRUS — on 29 june 2023 the press office of a russian social network with twelve million registered accounts announced that support for the project was suspen
30 Jun 2023 Dlisted — michael kuroiwa started writing celebrity gossip on his lunch break at an office job in january 2005, semi-anonymously, as michael k. eighteen years l
30 Jun 2023 RIA FAN — a failed mutiny killed this one. ria fan was the flagship of yevgeny prigozhin's patriot media group, staffed and housed alongside the internet resear
30 Jun 2023 PlaceIMG — 148,700,000 images, served from a side project a michigan web agency put up in 2013 and then mostly forgot about. you asked for a size in the url and
30 Jun 2023 Cicalo — a hashtag picked the catalog. 391,530 posts over three weeks in june 2021, first on twitter's trending list in japan and then first worldwide, and wha
30 Jun 2023 Shabette Concier — two days before it shipped, docomo's research chief was asked at the briefing how this differed from siri and answered that the difference was japanes
Jul 2023 Ello — ello launched in march 2014 as an invite-only social network with a manifesto that said "you are not a product." after facebook started enforcing real
1 Jul 2023 Google Code Jam — twenty years of algorithm problems, open to anybody with a compiler and a connection, judged the same way for a student in minsk as for an engineer in
Jul 2023 bash.org — bash.org was a database of funny things people said on irc, submitted by readers and voted on, running from 1999 under the name qdb. for most of the 2
1 Jul 2023 Universal Analytics — universal analytics was google's second analytics engine, announced in october 2012 and built around analytics.js and a user id that could follow a pe
1 Jul 2023 Maestro — 1991, and mastercard put a debit brand on cards in ninety-three countries. it did one thing and did it nearly everywhere: pin at the terminal, checked
Jul 2023 A Plus — ashton kutcher put his name and his money behind a site that would only publish good news, and for a couple of years the traffic was real: fifty milli
1 Jul 2023 MetroHero — two software engineers who rode the washington metro to work built a better dashboard than the agency that owned the trains, and ran it for seven year
1 Jul 2023 Audm — two columbia graduates built a subscription app in 2016 on the belief that a 10,000 word magazine feature deserved a professional narrator rather than
3 Jul 2023 TweetDeck — tweetdeck was the free multi-column twitter client that journalists and community managers ran in a browser tab for over a decade. iain dodsworth ship
5 Jul 2023 Vowel — andy berman posted the news on a thursday night in june 2023 and gave customers until 5 july to download their own recordings. vowel was a video meeti
6 Jul 2023 Evolve — four hunters against one player controlling a monster that grew stronger the longer it stayed alive, which was a genuinely good idea, and turtle rock
2023 OmegaWiki — on 27 december 2005 gerard meijssen started a dictionary meant to hold every word of every language with definitions in every language, stored as a re
12 Jul 2023 Banciyuan — the notice went up on 12 june 2023 and gave everybody exactly thirty days. 半次元 meant the half-dimension, the strip of ground between a drawn character
14 Jul 2023 LINKCAST — ios 14 closed the background push api that let an app be woken up by a peer, and that was the whole product. a tokyo studio had built a messenger with
17 Jul 2023 Twitch Soundtrack — twitch soundtrack was a rights-cleared background-music library that twitch launched into beta on 30 september 2020, in the same twitchcon feature pus
18 Jul 2023 RememBear — dave carollo posted the goodbye on 19 july 2022 and gave the product exactly one year. most dead software gets a fortnight. remembear was tunnelbear's
19 Jul 2023 Google Album Archive — nobody signed up for album archive. google built it in july 2016 as somewhere to put the photos left over from products it was closing, starting with
23 Jul 2023 Twitter (2006 - 2023) — the public conversation site. 280 characters per post (originally 140). the timeline was where you watched things happen in real time. peak culture wa
23 Jul 2023 AppHarvest — appharvest was a kentucky greenhouse startup that combined climate-adjacent controlled-environment agriculture with an appalachian job-creation pitch.
26 Jul 2023 Apple Photo Stream — my photo stream was the free apple feature that pushed the last thousand photos from your iphone to your mac and your ipad without touching your iclou
27 Jul 2023 Third Room — funders who had said they were interested did not come through, element could not carry it alone, and in july 2023 the three people building third roo
31 Jul 2023 Amazon Halo — amazon halo shipped on 27 august 2020 as amazon's late entry into fitness wearables. the band had no screen. it did have a microphone that listened to
Aug 2023 Voot — voot was viacom18's answer to indian streaming, free and paid for by advertising, and it carried everything colors and mtv had already broadcast. it l
Aug 2023 Buka Manga — fifty million registered accounts, and the thing that killed it was obeying the law first. buka spent four years as the place chinese readers went for
1 Aug 2023 Wysp — françois chollet built a place for people to practice drawing, ran it for three years, then went to google and wrote keras. wysp kept going without hi
1 Aug 2023 The Silph Road — niantic paid the bills for about a year and then stopped, and that was enough to end it. the silph road was the volunteer research network that worked
1 Aug 2023 Teddit — reddit's api repricing killed it and the developer said so in the first paragraph of the notice. teddit was a front-end: it fetched reddit for you and
2 Aug 2023 Hopin — hopin was the purest artifact of the pandemic economy, a virtual-events platform that a sick young founder built in his flat in 2019 and that the lock
3 Aug 2023 Bazaar.tf — valve's own api is what finished it. bazaar.tf ran from june 2012 to 3 august 2023 as a trading site for team fortress 2 items, built by two people wh
9 Aug 2023 LinkedIn InCareer — china was the last large market where an american social network still had a login screen, and linkedin kept it for seven years by censoring what appe
10 Aug 2023 BayFiles — bayfiles was gottfrid svartholm and fredrik neij's 2011 attempt to run a file-hosting service that followed the rules. they hired dmca agents. the ter
10 Aug 2023 DiscordList.me — discord shipped without a way to find anything on it, and for most of a decade that gap was filled by outsiders. discordlist.me was one of them, an ad
11 Aug 2023 Microsoft Cortana — microsoft's voice assistant. announced at build april 2 2014, named after the halo character with jen taylor's voice, launched on windows phone 8.1 an
14 Aug 2023 Discord.io — at 16:36 cet on 14 august 2023 the operators confirmed that the database being sold on a hacking forum really was theirs. four minutes later they bega
21 Aug 2023 Skyblog — the french teenage blogging platform from 2002 to 2023. owned by the radio station skyrock. millions of french teenagers had a skyblog at some point.
21 Aug 2023 Fanhouse — fanhouse launched in november 2020 as a sfw alternative to onlyfans, aimed at creators whose income was already coming from patreon and instagram. and
25 Aug 2023 Marvel Future Revolution — netmarble built an open-world marvel game for phones and shipped it globally on 25 august 2021. it reviewed well and took an apple design award for in
29 Aug 2023 Stitcher — stitcher was the commute app for the american drive. i never had that commute and podcasts in turkey arrived as youtube tabs and spotify embeds. siriu
31 Aug 2023 Volition — the studio that made saints row, plus red faction and freespace before that, then got passed through thq and koch and deep silver and embracer for twe
31 Aug 2023 Microsoft Kaizala — kaizala was a microsoft garage messaging app for india and the rest of microsoft's "next billion users" emerging markets. it shipped to the public out
31 Aug 2023 iTunes Movie Trailers — apple launched trailers.apple.com in 1999 as a quicktime showcase tied to the broader push for the quicktime video player. the site became the front d
31 Aug 2023 Freewebs / Webs.com — a free website in the browser, back when that mostly meant geocities and a lot of patience. two brothers built freewebs out of a maryland dorm in 2001
31 Aug 2023 Xuite — xuite was taiwan's blog and photo-album service, the one chunghwa telecom ran while yahoo ran wretch. from 2005 it held everyday taiwanese life on a h
Sep 2023 Lookbook.nu — lookbook.nu was a pre-instagram street-style network where you posted a full-body photo of your outfit, tagged the pieces, and collected points called
1 Sep 2023 Gfycat — gfycat is remembered as a gif host, which it was not. it took the gif you uploaded and re-encoded it as video, so the thing that loaded in a second wa
1 Sep 2023 CITV — citv began as a scheduling strand, a name wrapped around the after-school hours on itv, and it held that job for twenty-three years before becoming a
1 Sep 2023 Football Outsiders — aaron schatz started a website in august 2003 to prove a boston globe columnist wrong about why the patriots had missed the playoffs, and ended up wit
Sep 2023 Media Temple — ninety four and a half million dollars in cash bought godaddy a hosting company it then spent ten years deciding what to do with. media temple sold sh
1 Sep 2023 SPACE10 — copenhagen's meatpacking district held a research lab that belonged to a furniture company. space10 spent the best part of a decade on flat-pack housi
1 Sep 2023 Rome Tools — sebastian mckenzie had already written babel and yarn when he raised $4.5 million in may 2021 to build the one tool that would replace the entire java
5 Sep 2023 Pages Perso Orange — france télécom opened wanadoo on 2 may 1996 and gave every subscriber free web space with the dial-up account, which is how a generation of french peo
8 Sep 2023 Ventrilo — ventrilo was a windows voice-chat client released by flagship industries on august 3 2002. it became the default voice-chat program for world of warcr
11 Sep 2023 Kwangya Club — a fight over who owned sm entertainment is what closed this one. kwangya club was sm's own fan club app, named for the wilderness in aespa's lyrics, a
17 Sep 2023 SAPO Vídeos — 120,000 videos by its first birthday, and sixty percent of them shot by the people watching. sapo videos opened on 28 december 2006 as portugal's answ
18 Sep 2023 Facebook Messenger Lite — messenger lite was facebook messenger with the weight cut off, made for the phones and networks the main app choked on. it was small and it ran on alm
19 Sep 2023 Elyon — the mmorpg that spent three years hyped as ascent infinite realm before bluehole quietly pivoted the whole thing into a generic action mmo, kakao game
27 Sep 2023 The Cycle: Frontier — yager development made spec ops: the line, then spent three years turning a battle royale into an extraction shooter and launched it free on steam in
27 Sep 2023 Mega Man X DiVE — twenty-six days before the servers went off, capcom put the same game back on sale as a one-time purchase. mega man x dive was capcom taiwan's first o
27 Sep 2023 goo Map (goo地図) — on 1 july 2023 ntt resonant was absorbed into ntt docomo and stopped existing. nineteen days later a help-center article gave the date its map would c
27 Sep 2023 ニコニコアプリ (Niconico Appli) — fourteen games opened the platform in december 2010 and twenty-nine were left on the last page in september 2023. somewhere in between, the one featur
28 Sep 2023 Lululemon Studio Mirror — the mirror was a wall-mounted full-length fitness screen founded in 2016 by brynn putnam, launched in september 2018 at $1,495, and acquired by lulule
29 Sep 2023 Netflix DVD-by-Mail — the red envelope outlived blockbuster, outlived the dvd format itself, and kept shipping until september 29 2023. reed hastings did not actually inven
29 Sep 2023 Works with Nest — at i/o in may 2019 google gave the works with nest program sixteen weeks to live, and the people who had wired their houses around it reacted badly en
30 Sep 2023 Google Optimize — google's free a/b testing tool. tied to google analytics, ran as a chrome-extension visual editor where you could swap copy or layout chunks on a live
30 Sep 2023 BeeTV — 5.62 million members on 31 july 2013, and that number was the ceiling. avex and ntt docomo opened beetv on 1 may 2009 and sold it as the first broadca
30 Sep 2023 FOIAonline — twenty-two federal agencies once ran their freedom of information act traffic through a single website, and that website cost 1.3 million dollars to b
Oct 2023 LBRY — lbry was a blockchain-native content network launched by jeremy kauffman and jimmy kiselak out of new hampshire in may 2015. the pitch was a decentral
1 Oct 2023 Achievement Hunter — achievement hunter opened on 6 july 2008 as a database of written instructions for unlocking xbox achievements, built because geoff ramsey and burnie
1 Oct 2023 Ad-Aware / Lavasoft — ad-aware found the software installed on your machine to watch you rather than to break it, back when antivirus vendors did not consider that their de
1 Oct 2023 Oryx — on 19 june 2023 the two dutchmen who had run oryx for a decade said the blog would close on 1 october. stijn mitzer and joost oliemans had spent eight
Oct 2023 FileWarez — the record industry got this one, and it did not need a raid to do it. ifpi and the brazilian anti-piracy body apdif brought in cyber gaeco, the cyber
1 Oct 2023 Rukkola.hu — roughly 480,000 books moved between strangers in hungary over eleven years, by post and by hand, paid for in points rather than money. the publisher t
8 Oct 2023 Pac-Man 99 — arika took the 1980 maze game and put ninety nine of them on one screen, where eating a ghost dropped an obstacle into somebody else's maze. it arrive
Oct 2023 Gimlet Media — gimlet was the brooklyn podcast studio that came to define what a high-budget, narrative-driven, NPR-adjacent american podcast sounded like. alex blum
10 Oct 2023 Right Stuf — the north american anime mail-order pioneer. founded in 1987 in grimes iowa by todd ferson and shawne kleckner, acquired by sony in august 2022, folde
10 Oct 2023 Internet Explorer Mobile — microsoft put a browser on windows ce in november 1996, wrote it from scratch because nothing in the desktop internet explorer would fit in the memory
10 Oct 2023 Windows MultiPoint Server — a school buys one tower and six monitors instead of six towers. every station hangs off a usb hub with its own keyboard, everyone logs into a separate
10 Oct 2023 Windows CE — on 16 november 1996 microsoft put the word windows on a kernel that shared no code with windows, and then spent twenty-seven years selling it to peopl
12 Oct 2023 RTÉ Aertel — rté launched aertel on 22 june 1987 and ran it for thirty six years. the analogue signal that carried it was switched off in 2012 and the service surv
17 Oct 2023 Morhipo — morhipo was boyner holding's online store, opened on 22 march 2011 with a celebrity-heavy television campaign and grown fast enough that internet reta
19 Oct 2023 Convoy — convoy was seattle's digital freight brokerage founded in 2015 by dan lewis, an ex-amazon operations manager. it raised over a billion dollars across
23 Oct 2023 Async Art — async art was the san francisco nft platform built around an unusual mechanic. a piece had a master and a set of layers underneath. each layer was its
30 Oct 2023 Restaurant Dash with Gordon Ramsay — tom hall co-founded id software and left during the making of doom. the last game he designed was a mobile restaurant sim with gordon ramsay shouting
31 Oct 2023 Twitter Circles — twitter circles was a close-friends feed that let you post a tweet visible only to a hand-picked list of up to 150 accounts. it rolled out globally on
31 Oct 2023 Olive AI — olive ai was a US healthcare automation SaaS founded in columbus ohio in 2012 by sean lane as crosschx, a patient identity verification product. it re
31 Oct 2023 Amazon Amp — amazon shipped a clubhouse clone with a licensed music catalog and celebrity djs eighteen months after the moment it needed. the app launched in march
31 Oct 2023 NemID — denmark switched on a single national login on 1 july 2010 and everyone over fifteen with a cpr number got one, which made it the rare piece of softwa
Oct 2023 Azure Kinect DK — microsoft built kinect three times. the first two were consumer products for the xbox, and the third was a four hundred dollar usb-c box aimed at nobo
31 Oct 2023 Web SQL Database — one implementation was the whole problem. web sql put a real sqlite database behind a javascript call, and every browser that shipped it shipped sqlit
31 Oct 2023 Money Dashboard — 3,300 small investors put 4.6 million pounds into money dashboard in august 2019, the biggest fintech crowdfund on crowdcube that year. it was the uk'
Nov 2023 Flattr — peter sunde left the pirate bay and built a button that did the opposite of what the pirate bay did. you put a small monthly budget into flattr, you c
1 Nov 2023 Pebble (social network) — gabor cselle and sarah oh both came out of twitter and started building a replacement for it in november 2022, the month the layoffs landed. it was ca
2 Nov 2023 Apple Music Voice Plan — apple's $4.99 siri-only tier of apple music. you could ask siri for a song but you could not browse the library by hand. positioned for homepod owners
2 Nov 2023 My Brute (La Brute) — on 2 november 2023 motion twin switched off every web game it had, and my brute went with them. it was a flash fighting game from bordeaux that did th
3 Nov 2023 Wakanim — wakanim opened in a small city in northern france in 2009 with an unpopular proposition: pay for the episode you were already getting free from volunt
3 Nov 2023 XeNTaX Game Research Forum — 90,443 registered members and 161,906 posts, nearly all of it about how to open a file that was never meant to be opened. a dutch commodore 64 demosce
6 Nov 2023 WeWork — wework was supposed to be the office of the future. it sold hot desks like a tech company sells software. by 2019 it carried a 47 billion dollar valua
7 Nov 2023 Gas — gas was nikita bier's second run at the same product he had already built and sold once as tbh. it launched on august 29 2022 in a handful of southern
8 Nov 2023 Omegle — the random-stranger video chat site. you opened the URL, you got paired with another random user somewhere on the internet, you talked or you hit "nex
8 Nov 2023 Reddit Community Points — the fortnite subreddit beat the cryptocurrency subreddit at crypto. when reddit launched community points in may 2020, r/fortnitebr had created 8,666
9 Nov 2023 Amazon Style — glendale, california got the first one in may 2022, at a mall called the americana at brand, and columbus, ohio got the second and last one that octob
9 Nov 2023 The China Project — a 480-page whistleblower complaint, filed with the justice department in october 2022 and never once made public, cost this publication its investors
11 Nov 2023 AusGamers — mammoth media started it in brisbane in 1999, back when an australian pulling a demo off an american server was committing an afternoon to it. it came
18 Nov 2023 Nothing Chats — the app lived one day. nothing announced it on 14 november 2023 as an imessage client for android and had a beta on google play by the 17th. it was go
20 Nov 2023 Coinbase Pro — three names in eight years, and the last one ended by being absorbed. the terminal opened in january 2015 as coinbase exchange, took the name gdax in
27 Nov 2023 Veev — veev was an israeli-founded proptech company that pivoted to modular home construction in the mid-2010s and scaled its manufacturing out of union city
29 Nov 2023 Gundam Evolution — bandai namco online built an overwatch-shaped shooter and cast it with gundam mobile suits, six a side, free to play. it launched on pc on 21 septembe
30 Nov 2023 Flimmit — an amendment to austria's broadcasting act took effect on 1 january 2024 and it forbade the orf from operating paid services of any kind. flimmit was
30 Nov 2023 OkadaBooks — an okada is the motorcycle taxi you take in lagos when the traffic has stopped moving, and okechukwu ofili named his publishing platform after one bec
30 Nov 2023 iMacros — press record, fill in the form once, and the browser would do it again every morning for the rest of its life. mathias roth wrote the first version in
30 Nov 2023 A.nnotate — a small scottish company took proof-of-concept money from the scottish government in 2006 for work on authoring structured content out of plain text,
30 Nov 2023 DwarfHeim — the average concurrent player count across 2023 was slightly under three. merge games kept the servers running anyway for nearly two years after pinel
30 Nov 2023 壁紙.com (Kabegami.com) — the line printed next to the logo said make your desktop more fun, and in december 2000, when the oldest surviving copy of the site was taken, that wa
30 Nov 2023 ニコニコ市場 (Niconico Ichiba) — on 12 july 2007, seven months into niconico's life, dwango hung a row of amazon products under the video player and let the viewers decide what went i
Dec 2023 Jay Is Games — jay is games was a casual-games review and curation blog founded by jay bibby on 19 april 2003. for two decades it was the hub anglo flash-game cultur
Dec 2023 Jumia Food — jumia food started life as hellofood in 2012, one of rocket internet's african ventures, and took the jumia name in the 2016 rebrand. by late 2023 it
4 Dec 2023 Bittrex — bittrex launched in 2014 out of bellevue with three ex-amazon security engineers running the stack. its pitch was a us exchange that listed more token
4 Dec 2023 Comixology — comixology launched july 2007 as an online pull-list community for comic readers. by 2010 it had pivoted into digital comics sales with the guided vie
11 Dec 2023 Pegipegi — pegipegi launched in jakarta in may 2012, selling flights and hotel rooms inside indonesia with a local media group and japanese money behind it. in 2
12 Dec 2023 E3 — for twenty-five years the video game industry did its announcing in one building in los angeles during one week in june. e3 was where sony killed the
13 Dec 2023 NPR One — nine years of public radio built as a river instead of a menu. you opened it and it started talking, newscast first, then whatever it had decided you
14 Dec 2023 Guns Up! — sony gave notice on 14 october 2022 that guns up would be switched off the following april. the reaction from the players still on it was loud enough
15 Dec 2023 LARM.fm — since 1987 danish law has sent a copy of every radio and television broadcast to the royal library. larm.fm was the reading room built on top of that
15 Dec 2023 Noteable — a company that had raised twenty five million dollars to host data notebooks ran out of runway in late 2023 and posted the notice to its own community
15 Dec 2023 GitHub Copilot Labs — github ended four technical previews on the same day, 15 december 2023, and copilot labs was one of them. it had been the sidebar where github tried t
18 Dec 2023 Wikimedia RU — vladimir medeyko co-founded wikimedia ru in 2008 and ran it for most of its fifteen years. in june 2023 he launched ruwiki, a fork of the russian wiki
18 Dec 2023 QuestionCopyright.org — karl fogel incorporated a nonprofit in california in february 2007 to argue that copyright restriction hurts artists more than it protects them, then
21 Dec 2023 Windows Mixed Reality — windows mixed reality was microsoft's bet that VR would land on the desktop through a fleet of cheap partner headsets running on the same windows runt
22 Dec 2023 Zulily — zulily sold clothes for moms and kids through daily flash sales, deals that showed up in an early-morning email and were gone by the next day. it laun
22 Dec 2023 Versus Evil — 22 december 2023, three days before christmas, tinybuild laid off all thirteen people at versus evil and closed it. the baltimore label had spent ten
25 Dec 2023 OneHallyu — 8.2 million posts sat in the music section alone on the day the admins locked it. onehallyu ran from 2013 to christmas day 2023 as the largest english
31 Dec 2023 Amazon Cloud Drive — amazon cloud drive launched in march 2011 as amazon's bet that the photo and document storage market would be a separate consumer product rather than
31 Dec 2023 Wickr — wickr was the snowden-era encrypted messenger for the people who wanted ephemeral self-destructing messages without going all the way to signal. it la
2023 Peach — peach was the january 2016 app. dom hofmann shipped it fresh off vine's success, showed it off at ces, watched it climb to number 10 in the ios networ
31 Dec 2023 aRGENTeaM — around 100,000 spanish subtitle files came out of one argentine forum between 2002 and 2023, made by more than 500 volunteers who were never paid for
31 Dec 2023 DK Find Out! — on the last day of 2023 dorling kindersley switched off dkfindout.com, the free children's reference site it had been running since march 2015. it was
31 Dec 2023 Osaifu-Link — japan ran its trains and its convenience stores on felica, a sony contactless standard the iphone did not carry. felica networks shipped osaifu-link i

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2022 Hot or Not — the website where strangers rated photos of strangers on a 1-to-10 scale. it launched in october 2000 from two berkeley engineers and hit two million
1 Jan 2022 AngularJS — angularjs was the framework google shipped to define what a single-page web app looked like. misko hevery wrote the first version at brat tech in 2009
2022 Keenspot — keenspot was the invite-only premium webcomic network chris and teri crosby launched in march 2000 with darren bleuel and nathan stone. it ran a curat
2022 DowneLink — downelink was an american social network for lgbtq people, mostly young and mostly of color, that ran from the early 2000s. mtv networks' logo channel
2022 Spray.se — spray was sweden's great dot-com portal, a web company that at the top of the boom was worth around four billion dollars on paper. it ran the spray.se
Jan 2022 Picsearch — picsearch was an image search engine built by two students in linköping that almost nobody used directly, because it was sold to the portals instead.
2022 Howard Johnson's — lake george, new york had the last one, and when it stopped serving in 2022 a chain that carried over a thousand restaurants in 1975 was down to zero.
Jan 2022 RedditGifts — bill gates did it five years running, under the username thisisbillgates. that is the detail everybody remembers about redditgifts, which began in 200
2022 SpaceCollective — rene daalder died on the last day of 2019 in ventura county, california, and the website he had started with folkert gorter at the end of 2007 kept ru
Jan 2022 Breaker — twitter announced on 4 january 2021 that it had bought the team behind breaker to work on spaces, and that the app itself would be switched off on the
3 Jan 2022 癲狗日報 (Mad Dog Daily) — wong yuk-man started a five-dollar hong kong tabloid on 18 march 1996, buried it in july 1998, and brought the name back as a subscription news site o
4 Jan 2022 BlackBerry — the corporate phone with the physical keyboard. the qwerty made you faster at email than anyone with a touch screen. it died slowly between 2007 (when
4 Jan 2022 BlackBerry OS — the operating system that ran the phone every executive kept in a belt holster. it made email in your pocket feel like a decision instead of a toy, an
4 Jan 2022 Citizen News — citizen news was founded on new year's day 2017 by ten veteran hong kong journalists and ran as a non-profit on reader donations, carrying no advertis
5 Jan 2022 Android Things — december 2020: google quietly rewrote an faq page to say that the console for its internet-of-things operating system would stop taking new projects o
11 Jan 2022 N26 US — eighteen months after walking out of the united kingdom, germany's biggest neobank walked out of the united states too. the announcement came on 18 no
12 Jan 2022 Idola Phantasy Star Saga — thirty years of phantasy star, marked with a japan-only mobile rpg where every character could be pushed from law to chaos and back, and where you cou
14 Jan 2022 Mediavideo — segrate, 27 november 1997: mediaset switched on a teletext service and numbered it from page 100 to page 513. mediavideo then outlasted its own medium
Jan 2022 Kataweb — an italian newspaper group built a portal in 1999 and a bank paid the equivalent of 157 million euros for five percent of it, which put the whole comp
17 Jan 2022 VPNLab — vpnlab sold openvpn access with 2048-bit keys for sixty dollars a year and advertised on dark web forums, which tells you who the customer was, becaus
18 Jan 2022 YouTube Originals — youtube originals launched on february 10 2016 as the scripted content tier of youtube red, a six year run by a major streamer trying to be hbo on a y
31 Jan 2022 Diem (Libra) — diem started life as libra, facebook's plan to give billions of people a single global currency they could send as easily as a message. the moment it
31 Jan 2022 Harry Potter: Wizards Unite — wizards unite was Niantic's attempt to do Pokemon Go again with Harry Potter on top. same idea: walk around the real world with your phone up, find th
31 Jan 2022 LEGO Digital Designer — lego digital designer was a free cad program for lego bricks, and the point of it was that the box on screen never ran out. you built whatever you wan
31 Jan 2022 FoodTribe — a car-shaped social network with serious money behind it decided in 2019 that the same software could hold recipes, and launched foodtribe as the sist
31 Jan 2022 NotebookReview — charles jefferies posted the notice on 22 january 2022, on behalf of what he called a small but dedicated volunteer staff. nine days later notebookrev
31 Jan 2022 Argonavis from BanG Dream! AAside — pre-registration opened in november 2019 and the game arrived fourteen months after that, so bushiroad spent four hundred and thirty-six days taking r
31 Jan 2022 BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War — announced in august 2017 for a 2018 release, shipped in february 2021, dead by january 2022. arc system works gave this one three and a half years of
31 Jan 2022 Tenshoku Navi (転職ナビ) — a job board that charged the employer nothing until somebody was actually hired, and then paid the new recruit as well, up to a hundred thousand yen f
Feb 2022 5by5 — on 25 january 2022 the homepage listed thirteen running shows and named a cdn sponsor for the month. seven days later the same address served one sent
2 Feb 2022 Pinger.pl — on the morning of 2 february 2022 pinger.pl began forwarding to pudelek, the gossip site of its owner wirtualna polska. o2.pl had launched it in novem
3 Feb 2022 Firefox Reality — mozilla's web browser for virtual reality headsets. it launched september 18 2018 for oculus go and viveport, later added quest and pico. the pitch wa
7 Feb 2022 Tales of Crestoria — kanata hjuger is guilty. that was the pitch of a gacha game, and it is a strange one: the hero of tales of crestoria commits the crime he is condemned
9 Feb 2022 TheMarker Café — haaretz's business paper opened a social network in february 2007 and called it a cafe. inside a year a survey put it third among israeli social netwo
Feb 2022 CrowdsUnite — the jobs act cleared congress in april 2012 and suddenly anybody in the united states could try to raise money from strangers online, which meant hund
15 Feb 2022 Transindex — the money came from a political party foundation, and when communitas stopped paying in the spring of 2021 the newsroom had about ten months left. on
20 Feb 2022 Tivoli Cloud VR — caitlyn meeks and maki deprez both came out of high fidelity, and when high fidelity pulled the plug on its own vr platform in january 2020 they clone
22 Feb 2022 Dubsmash — dubsmash was a berlin-built lip-sync video app that hit number one in germany within a week of its november 2014 launch and passed fifty million downl
24 Feb 2022 Lurkmore — lurkmore was the russian internet explaining itself to itself, a mediawiki encyclopedia of memes and imageboard slang written in the sarcastic voice o
24 Feb 2022 bash.im — bash.im was the russian internet's quote book, a wall of one-line exchanges lifted out of irc and messenger windows by readers and voted into place by
28 Feb 2022 User Friendly — a daily webcomic about the staff of a fictional canadian isp called columbia internet, drawn by j.d. frazer under the name illiad from 17 november 199
28 Feb 2022 Outline.com — nobody ever said what happened. the reader that could strip any article down to its sentences, and incidentally walk past a great many paywalls, simpl
1 Mar 2022 Instagram Hyperlapse — hyperlapse was an iOS-only instagram app that turned shaky phone video into smoothed-out timelapses without any external rig. it launched in august 20
Mar 2022 IGTV — IGTV was instagram's long-form vertical video app. it launched in june 2018 with kevin systrom on stage in san francisco, ran for four years, and was
Mar 2022 ZDNet Downloads — hotfiles.com came first, in 1996, calling itself the zdnet software library and promising top rated shareware picked by people you trust. the address
1 Mar 2022 Tiexue — on 20 december 2021 a chinese forum with more than ten million registered users turned off the reply button, then spent ten weeks saying goodbye befor
1 Mar 2022 Chartio — atlassian bought chartio on 26 february 2021 and gave it almost exactly one year. the product was a way for people who could not write sql to drag col
2 Mar 2022 Amazon Books — amazon books was the first physical retail concept amazon opened under its own name. the first store launched in november 2015 at university village i
2 Mar 2022 Amazon 4-star — amazon 4-star was the general-merchandise sibling to amazon books, opened in soho manhattan in september 2018 with a simple idea: only stock items rat
2 Mar 2022 Fitbit Ionic — a smartwatch holds a lithium-ion battery against skin for sixteen hours a day, which is the fact underneath everything that happened here. fitbit's fi
3 Mar 2022 RT America — rt america was the english-language us bureau of rt, the russian state broadcaster owned by tv novosti and produced by t&r productions in washington d
3 Mar 2022 Echo of Moscow — a moscow talk radio station that went on air on 22 august 1990 and spent thirty-one years being the loudest critical voice on russian radio while gazp
10 Mar 2022 Facebook Campus — in 2004 thefacebook would not let you in without a harvard email. in september 2020 facebook built that wall again on purpose, as a section inside the
13 Mar 2022 YouTube Vanced — youtube vanced was an unofficial youtube app for android that did the two things google charges a subscription for, removing the ads and carrying on p
14 Mar 2022 Switter — assembly four spun up a mastodon instance in melbourne three days before fosta-sesta passed in the us. for four years switter held the largest online
15 Mar 2022 Findicator — statistics finland closed its own service on 15 march 2022 and put the reason in writing, which almost nobody does: findicator was technically outdate
16 Mar 2022 F1 Delta Time — four hundred and fifteen ether, about a hundred and thirteen thousand dollars, for a car that existed only as a token. f1 delta time held the official
22 Mar 2022 Wanmen University — at around four in the morning on 22 march 2022 somebody went through the vip groups on wechat and dissolved them one at a time. by the time students w
25 Mar 2022 Black News Channel — the judiciary committee hearings for ketanji brown jackson ran through the last week of march 2022 and gave bnc the largest audience it ever recorded.
26 Mar 2022 bobiler.org — bobiler.org was the turkish humor site that taught a country to make montes, which is what turkish internet culture called a photoshopped image with a
28 Mar 2022 Learjet — bill lear wanted a small jet that went fast and did not care much for the rest of the brief, which is why the learjet 23 first flew on 7 october 1963
30 Mar 2022 Mobile Suit Gundam Online — one hundred and four players fit inside a single battle, fifty-two to a side, and the fifty-second on each side never fired a shot: that slot was a co
31 Mar 2022 Stack Overflow Jobs — stack overflow careers launched in october 2009 as joel spolsky's plan to pay the bills on the q&a site. it grew into stack overflow jobs, attached th
Mar 2022 StudiVZ — studivz was the german-speaking world's homegrown facebook. founded in november 2005 in berlin by ehssan dariani and dennis bemmann, it grew into a 15
31 Mar 2022 MeinVZ — the third and final VZ network, launched in february 2008 for germans who were done with university and did not fit on studivz anymore. it inherited t
31 Mar 2022 EZweb — ezweb was the mobile internet on au phones in japan, launched by the ddi cellular group on 14 april 1999, seven weeks after docomo shipped i-mode. it
31 Mar 2022 Kristal-Astro — brunei is small enough that one satellite platform was the whole pay television market. kristal sdn bhd out of the dst group and astro's malaysian bro
31 Mar 2022 Chastny Korrespondent — the first russian publication to put its whole output under creative commons did it in 2009, and one of the stated reasons was to give russian wikiped
31 Mar 2022 wize.life — a property group in deggendorf bankrolled a social network for germans over fifty and ran it for nine and a half years on advertising alone. it opened
31 Mar 2022 acTVila — five japanese television manufacturers put a portal inside their own sets and ran it as a joint venture. panasonic and sony held 35 percent each and t
31 Mar 2022 joinDOTA — the first post went up on 26 june 2011, titled "joindota beta website is live". for the next decade joindota covered dota 2 harder than anyone else an
31 Mar 2022 WakuWaku Japan — the japanese government put 15.5 billion yen behind a satellite channel whose job was to get asia watching japanese television. it opened in indonesia
31 Mar 2022 Meta.org — on 28 october 2021, the day facebook announced it was becoming meta, the chan zuckerberg initiative put a banner on meta.org saying the site would sun
31 Mar 2022 Atelier Online: Alchemist of Bressisle — koei tecmo's alchemy series turned twenty in 2017 and the anniversary present was a phone game. nhn playart built it and ran it, then handed the whole
Apr 2022 Hospitality Club — hospitality club was a hospitality-exchange network founded in koblenz in 2000, where members hosted travelers for free and hosts were never allowed t
Apr 2022 Blender.io — blender.io ran as a bitcoin mixer from 2017 and moved more than half a billion dollars through itself before it was finished. in march 2022 north kore
Apr 2022 Hello — orkut büyükkökten built orkut inside google as a twenty percent project and then watched google close it in september 2014. hello was his answer, laun
Apr 2022 Geekologie — geekologie.com has served the same short goodbye since april 2022, white text on a black page, telling you the site has shut down and then telling you
Apr 2022 TNN 滔新聞 — huang ding-ling ran a public relations group in taipei, and in 2016 she opened a newsroom inside it with herself as editor-in-chief of both. tnn was t
5 Apr 2022 Hydra Market — hydra was the largest darknet market ever built and almost nobody outside the russian-speaking internet ever saw it. it ran from 2015 to april 2022 an
6 Apr 2022 ONE PIECE Bon! Bon! Journey!! — seven in the morning, universal time. that is an odd hour to switch a game off, and it tells you what this one was: a single worldwide service with no
12 Apr 2022 RaidForums — raidforums was the largest english-language breach-data forum of the 2015 to 2022 window. its portuguese founder diogo santos coelho started it as a t
13 Apr 2022 Club Penguin Rewritten — two semi-anonymous students rebuilt club penguin a month after disney announced it was closing the original, and then ran the copy for five years whil
15 Apr 2022 Insteon — insteon was a californian smart-home hub-and-switches ecosystem that did the two things revolv did not: it kept selling gear for seventeen years and i
21 Apr 2022 Apple Xsan — xsan was apple's enterprise san cluster filesystem, a relabeled stornext from quantum that let multiple macs read and write to the same fibre channel
21 Apr 2022 macOS Server — apple's standalone server app ran for twenty-three years. it started in march 1999 as mac os x server 1.0, the unix-side answer to applesharetalk and
26 Apr 2022 Duowei News — duowei news opened on 11 january 1999 as chinese news net, run out of new york by ho pin, who had left a chinese state newspaper after 1989. it specia
27 Apr 2022 Brave Frontier — a-lim shipped brave frontier in japan on 3 july 2013 and gumi took it worldwide five months later out of singapore, which is how a japanese game ended
28 Apr 2022 Hyper Scape — ubisoft montreal put it out in july 2020, in the summer when everyone was indoors and every publisher wanted a battle royale. the idea it was actually
30 Apr 2022 CNN+ — cnn+ was a $300 million streaming service that never reached turkey at the licensing layer and never reached the us at the subscription layer either.
Apr 2022 Entertainment Weekly (print) — ew was the american pop-culture weekly. movies, tv, music, books, the weekly report cards for the fall network schedule. time inc launched it on 16 fe
Apr 2022 InStyle (print) — instyle was the american celebrity-fashion monthly that time inc launched in june 1994 out of the people magazine editorial workshop. martha nelson ra
Apr 2022 People en Español (print) — the spanish-language spin-off of time inc's people magazine, launched november 1996 for the US latino market. it defined celebrity coverage for a gene
1 May 2022 Alexa Internet — the little green bar at the bottom of your browser that said you were visitor number five hundred thousand of a website nobody else was on. amazon bou
1 May 2022 Engadget Japan — boundless, the japanese arm of what used to be verizon media, announced on 15 february 2022 that both of its tech sites were closing. engadget's japan
1 May 2022 TechCrunch Japan — in 2006 volunteers started translating techcrunch posts into japanese, and sixteen years later the site they had started was running a startup confere
6 May 2022 Scout.com — a network of more than three hundred subscription sites, one per college team, whose product was ranked information about named american high school a
May 2022 NewsFire — eleven years went by between newsfire's last release and the day its website stopped answering. david watanabe wrote it for mac os x in 2004 and sold
10 May 2022 iPod — the ipod was the product that turned apple into a consumer-electronics company. it sold roughly 450 million units across all variants over twenty year
13 May 2022 Terra / Luna — terra was a south korean blockchain project whose stablecoin ust was kept at a dollar by burning and minting its sister token luna. the design worked
16 May 2022 Spotify Stations — spotify stations was a standalone radio-style listening app that spotify launched in australia in january 2018 and the us in early 2019. the pitch was
23 May 2022 PlayStation Now — playstation now was sony's cloud-gaming subscription. it ran ps2, ps3 and ps4 games on rack servers in sony data centers and streamed the video to you
24 May 2022 Acast App — a listed swedish company decided its own consumer app was a conflict of interest and turned it off. the acast app had been running since 2014, back wh
26 May 2022 CTemplar — reykjavik was the whole pitch, icelandic privacy law and anonymous signup, sold under the name armored email. the holding company was registered in th
31 May 2022 Survarium — gsc game world closed in december 2011 and took stalker 2 down with it. the people who had been building that game founded vostok games in kyiv three
31 May 2022 BLOGOS — 1,300 writers appeared on blogos and none of them were paid. the site opened in october 2009 as one page inside the livedoor portal, run by nhn japan
31 May 2022 Hispachan — a pseudonymous administrator called zeta opened a spanish-language imageboard in november 2012 because there was not one, and by 2021 it was among the
31 May 2022 Hortensia Saga — the same paragraph appeared twice in six months with one number changed. in march 2022 f4samurai wrote that maintaining the service at an acceptable q
Jun 2022 Yaari — indiabulls tried to run a meesho competitor by giving resellers a curated catalog and a share-to-whatsapp button. the funnel worked. paying the suppli
Jun 2022 Google Chrome Apps — google spent a decade teaching web pages how to install themselves, then decided the open web could manage it without the extra layer. a chrome app ra
Jun 2022 Google Native Client — native client let a web page run compiled c and c++ at close to full speed inside a sandbox, years before anybody else managed the trick. the catch ne
1 Jun 2022 420chan — 420chan opened on 20 april 2005 as a joke about 4chan and drugs, and its raid board /i/ is where the people who began calling themselves anonymous org
1 Jun 2022 Adobe Font Folio — thirty-four years separate the two ends of this product. in november 1988 it was three hundred postscript typefaces on a 45-megabyte external drive fo
1 Jun 2022 Adobe Presenter — a startup called presedia built a powerpoint-to-flash plug-in, macromedia bought the company in january 2003, and adobe inherited the product at the e
1 Jun 2022 Furiffic — on 6 march 2022 the owner of a furry art site pinned a post headed service termination, typed in pink, and gave everybody twelve weeks to take their p
1 Jun 2022 Koronavilkku — a million people downloaded this on the day it opened, in a country with a population of 5.5 million. finland's institute for health and welfare built
3 Jun 2022 Facebook Podcasts — facebook podcasts was meta's in-app podcast player and creator platform, rolled out in the united states on 22 june 2021 as part of a wider audio push
3 Jun 2022 Friday.app — luke thomas raised $2.5 million for friday, added a hundred thousand users in the product's last twelve months, and switched it off on 3 june 2022 bec
6 Jun 2022 Oculus Venues — on the evening of 30 may 2018 a few thousand headsets pointed at red rocks amphitheatre to watch vance joy play, each one sitting in a virtual crowd n
7 Jun 2022 SSNDOB — ssndob sold american identities by the record. a full one, carrying a name and a social security number, went for fifty cents, and the catalog covered
7 Jun 2022 Trunk Club — trunk club sent you a box of clothes a stylist had picked, you kept what you wanted and posted the rest back for nothing. nordstrom bought it in 2014
9 Jun 2022 Jeuxvideo.fr — richard richarte's flashback multimedia launched jeuxvideo.fr in 2000 into a french games web that already had jeuxvideo.com, and spent twenty two yea
15 Jun 2022 Internet Explorer — the browser that came with windows. it killed netscape. it ran the web for about ten years. then it became the universally hated browser web developer
15 Jun 2022 Embedded OpenType — microsoft shipped a way to put real fonts on a web page in 1997, eleven years before anybody else managed it, and then spent the next decade unable to
15 Jun 2022 Katacoda — o'reilly bought ben hall's katacoda in november 2019 and closed it to the public on 15 june 2022, a month after saying it would. the reason given was
15 Jun 2022 Oberlo — vilnius, 2015: two brothers built a pipe between aliexpress and shopify, so that a store could list a product it had never seen and forward the order
17 Jun 2022 COVID Alert — six million nine hundred and forty eight thousand people downloaded it. sixty three thousand of them ever typed in the one-time key that told the app
20 Jun 2022 Heroes of Newerth — heroes of newerth was the paid dota clone that landed between the end of dota allstars on the warcraft 3 engine and the launch of valve's dota 2. s2 g
2022 Il Cannocchiale — nobody ever decided to close it. dol srl had run italy's first news-and-politics blogging platform for free since february 2003, and from 2015 the out
25 Jun 2022 Club MyCE — a hosting bill nobody renewed took down twenty-three years of forum archive on saturday 25 june 2022. the site opened in 1999 as cd freaks, the englis
27 Jun 2022 Three Arrows Capital — three arrows capital was a fx-arb shop in singapore that pivoted to crypto in 2017 and rode the cycle to a claimed 18 billion dollars in net asset val
27 Jun 2022 OperaMail.com — on 15 february 2021 fastmail began telling people that their email address was going to stop existing. the address ended in @operamail.com, which oper
28 Jun 2022 Uta Macross Smartphone Deculture — 155,071,800 yen from 4,918 people, and the campaign still has a week to run. that is what the players of a dead dena rhythm game put up in autumn 2026
30 Jun 2022 TERA — tera was a korean action mmo that shipped non-target combat at a time when the genre was still mostly tab-target. it ran for eleven years, from the ja
30 Jun 2022 Google Kormo Jobs — kormo was a blue-collar jobs marketplace from google's next billion users org. it launched in dhaka in september 2018 and expanded into jakarta in mar
30 Jun 2022 Twoo — twoo was a belgian social discovery site spun out of massive media, the same ghent team that built netlog. it launched in 2011 as a soft pivot away fr
30 Jun 2022 Prezi Classic — prezi classic was the original flash-based presentation editor built by prezi in budapest between 2009 and 2022. peter halacsy, adam somlai-fischer an
30 Jun 2022 Unitel — unitel was samsung sds's entry into the korean pc통신 boom, live from 1996 and the only one of the big four that made you install a windows client inste
30 Jun 2022 Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick — intel put a vision processor on a usb stick in july 2017 and sold it for seventy-nine dollars, so that anybody with a raspberry pi could run a trained
30 Jun 2022 Reading.am — greg leppert built it inside svpply because the people he worked with kept asking each other whether they had seen some link. reading.am logged the pa
30 Jun 2022 WanderJaunt — on 30 june 2022 wanderjaunt stopped operating in all eight of its american markets, and the way most people found out was a recorded greeting on the c
Jul 2022 Google My Business — for eight years the free dashboard where a business claimed its own google listing had a name and an icon of its own. you fixed your opening hours in
1 Jul 2022 G Suite legacy free edition — on 19 january 2022 google emailed a set of customers it had stopped accepting nine years earlier and told them the free years were over. the tier bega
5 Jul 2022 Voyager Digital — voyager digital was a us crypto brokerage. customers deposited fiat or crypto, the app gave per-coin quotes with no visible commission, and the platfo
5 Jul 2022 Volt Bank — six thousand customers, A$113 million in deposits, and a funding round that never closed. volt was the first australian startup ever granted a restric
6 Jul 2022 Modsy — $70.75m went into photographing people's living rooms and handing them back as 3d models with buyable furniture arranged inside. design work stopped i
13 Jul 2022 Celsius Network — celsius advertised 17% yields on dollars and bitcoin. that was the whole pitch, written across every podcast ad and every "ama with alex" livestream f
13 Jul 2022 Airlift — eleven months separate the largest venture round in pakistani history from the evening staff were told the company would stop the next day. airlift ra
15 Jul 2022 Famiポート (Famiport) — for twenty-two years every familymart in japan had a green terminal standing near the magazine rack, and it did the jobs a shop is not supposed to do.
20 Jul 2022 Yahoo! Movies — yahoo movies launched on may 12 1998 as "upcoming movies," then rebranded inside the year. for most of its run it was the showtimes-plus-trailers-plus
20 Jul 2022 Tales of Luminaria — twenty-one playable characters, one story each, and the service closed before a single one of them reached an ending. bandai namco launched its first
21 Jul 2022 Booshka — a pig crossed with a matryoshka doll, palm-sized, standing upright and hopping whenever it moved. cyberagent put it on japanese feature phones in sept
22 Jul 2022 OLL.TV — at 23:00 on 22 july 2022 a ukrainian streaming service stopped mid-evening because of a law about who is allowed to own media. oll.tv had run for ten
Jul 2022 Parsijoo — 600,000 hits a day in 2016 made parsijoo the second most used search engine in iran, behind google by a margin nobody at the telecommunication ministr
26 Jul 2022 Windows DVD Maker — windows dvd maker was the burn-to-disc app vista shipped in 2007 to help home premium and ultimate users put their slideshows on a tv-ready dvd. windo
28 Jul 2022 Intel Optane — a thousand times faster than nand was the claim intel and micron made on 28 july 2015, announcing a memory technology called 3d xpoint that would occu
31 Jul 2022 Surespot — adam patacchiola and cherie berdovich ran surespot out of a tiny boulder operation called 2fours from 2013 onward. the messenger used 256-bit aes-gcm
Aug 2022 News360 — news360 was a personalized news app from san francisco, launched in july 2010, that used semantic analysis to work out what a story was really about a
Aug 2022 YouTube Go — youtube go was a second youtube app, written for phones and connections that could not carry the real one. it told you the size of a video in megabyte
1 Aug 2022 teacup. — teacup. started in august 1997 as a free rental message board for people who had a personal homepage and nowhere to run a script. you signed up and pa
Aug 2022 Struum — a monthly allowance of credits for $4.99, spent one at a time on a film or an episode from any of about fifty small streaming services you did not wan
Aug 2022 Futabasha Web Magazine — twenty-one years of free manga served out of a publisher's corporate homepage, with no account to make and nothing to install. futabasha web magazine
Aug 2022 StrawPoll.me — fifty million polls went through one address between 2013 and 2022, most of them settling an argument that lasted four minutes. strawpoll.me was a for
5 Aug 2022 EVE: Valkyrie — it started as a hack week demo at an eve online fan convention in reykjavik, running on an early oculus dev kit, and it was the thing that convinced a
8 Aug 2022 Redis To Go — heroku wrote the first redis add-on for its own platform, spun it out, and from july 2010 a separate team ran it as redis to go. heroku's own document
10 Aug 2022 High School Story — a high school you built out of hangouts and students you recruited by clique, running on phones for nine years. pixelberry stopped writing new quests
12 Aug 2022 EachNet — eachnet was china's first large consumer auction site, started in shanghai in august 1999 by two harvard graduates who had watched ebay work in americ
12 Aug 2022 Killzone Shadow Fall — guerrilla games switched off three sets of servers on 12 august 2022 and one of them belonged to the game that sold the playstation 4 on its first day
15 Aug 2022 Kandian — kandian was tencent's answer to bytedance's douyin, the short-video app that took over chinese attention starting in 2016. tencent launched it in 2019
16 Aug 2022 COVIDSafe — on 26 april 2020 australia shipped a bluetooth contact tracing app and a million people installed it inside a day. by the time health minister mark bu
18 Aug 2022 Snap Pixy — pixy was the yellow selfie-drone snap launched in april 2022 to make the snapchat-camera experience hover. the device cost $230, was the size of a sma
18 Aug 2022 ChicagoNow — the chicago tribune opened a blog network in august 2009, the same year its parent company was working through bankruptcy, and let a few hundred local
18 Aug 2022 Publons — andrew preston and daniel johnston started publons in new zealand in 2012 to fix an accounting problem in science. peer review is unpaid and invisible
22 Aug 2022 DECnet — in july 2022 a kernel developer sent a patch to the linux mailing list arguing that decnet belonged in a museum rather than in the kernel, and twelve
24 Aug 2022 Jump Force — bandai namco built it for weekly shonen jump's fiftieth anniversary and put forty characters from sixteen manga into one arena. it shipped in february
26 Aug 2022 Lexico — oxford put its dictionaries on the open web in 2010 and then spent twelve years changing what the site was called. the last of those names was lexico,
30 Aug 2022 Heavy Metal Machines — florianópolis, on the coast of santa catarina, is where hoplon spent nine years building a four against four car combat arena about carrying a bomb in
Aug 2022 Snap Originals — snap originals was snapchat's arm for producing episodic vertical-video shows, launched in october 2018 as an answer to netflix competing for teen att
Aug 2022 Snap Games — snap games was snapchat's in-app html5 gaming platform, announced at the april 2019 partner summit alongside a bitmoji-for-games sdk. the pitch was mu
31 Aug 2022 Brainbench — brainbench sold the idea that a short online exam could stand in for a line on your cv. it started as tekmetrics.com in january 1998, took the brainbe
31 Aug 2022 Telekom De-Mail — germany passed a law in 2011 that gave email the standing of a registered letter, and deutsche telekom was one of four companies licensed to sell it.
31 Aug 2022 WACCA — a round screen sitting inside a round touch panel, with the notes traveling outward to meet your hands. marvelous opened wacca in japanese arcades on
31 Aug 2022 DMM Connect Chat — dmm built the plumbing first. dmm vr lab shipped vr connect in november 2020, a free service that parked your vrm avatar in a dmm account so other peo
Sep 2022 15.ai — 15.ai was an anonymous mit-affiliated researcher's free text-to-speech site, online march 2 2020 and silent by september 2022. it cloned the voices of
Sep 2022 Waze Carpool — waze carpool tried to sell the empty seats in rush hour traffic. it matched people driving the same way at the same hour and capped what a rider could
1 Sep 2022 Upstream — a philippine pay-per-view film platform opened on 14 november 2020 by two directors whose cinemas had been shut for eight months. it carried the 2020
1 Sep 2022 Bibliogram — cadence made the first commit on 19 december 2019 and gave the thing away. for two and a half years bibliogram did one small job: you pasted an instag
5 Sep 2022 Voisey — snap bought voisey in november 2020, which is how most people outside london heard the name at all. four norwegian and english music-industry people h
12 Sep 2022 Yandex Zen — yandex launched zen in may 2015 as a personalized infinite-scroll feed bolted onto the yandex.ru search homepage. the algorithm pulled in news and blo
12 Sep 2022 Kendall & Kylie — two days after launch it was the number one free app in the american app store, and it held that spot for four days before slipping to number two. ken
14 Sep 2022 Emporis — emporis was the web's quiet card catalog for tall buildings, started in frankfurt in 1996 and opened as a public database around 2000. for two decades
20 Sep 2022 People of Walmart — three men in their twenties walked out of a south carolina walmart in 2009 with an idea about photographing strangers, and inside a month time magazin
21 Sep 2022 big big shop — a shop bolted onto a livestreaming app, selling you the thing the actor on screen happened to be holding. tvb launched big big shop in may 2018 agains
22 Sep 2022 Edmodo — the facebook-shaped wall that lived inside a k-12 classroom, with the teacher as the only admin. edmodo was the thing americans used to mean "homework
28 Sep 2022 Fantasy Earth Zero — george kamitani spent three years directing this game and walked out in 2004 over arguments with square enix, then went to kansai, renamed his studio
29 Sep 2022 Zipmail — zipmail was brazil's answer to hotmail, a free webmail service launched in 1998 by the zip.net portal at the height of the dot-com rush. it grew fast,
30 Sep 2022 Fetion — the carrier-owned messenger that everyone in china had to install because the carrier put it on the phone. for three years around 2010 it was the seco
30 Sep 2022 GittiGidiyor — gittigidiyor was ebay in turkey for eleven years and the auction site everyone in the country used before that. it lost the market to trendyol and hep
30 Sep 2022 Olympic Channel — olympic channel was a joint venture between the international olympic committee and nbc sports group that ran as a us linear cable channel from 15 jul
30 Sep 2022 hubiC — ovh's answer to dropbox, launched in december 2011 and priced to embarrass everyone. twenty five gigabytes free, unlimited storage for eighty four eur
30 Sep 2022 Ablo — ablo came out of ghent in january 2019, built by massive media, the company that had already made netlog and twoo. it did one thing and did it cleanly
30 Sep 2022 Animax Plus — sony spent 2022 collapsing every anime brand it owned into crunchyroll, and the german-language one was among the last to go. animax arrived on unitym
30 Sep 2022 Peltarion — two stockholm engineers spent twelve years teaching other companies' engineers how to use neural networks, then spent six more building a platform so
Oct 2022 UzmanTV — a turkish site that answered practical questions with ninety-second videos of somebody qualified, built by ersan ozer in 2007 and profitable by novemb
Oct 2022 Yahoo! Philippines — yahoo opened a philippine edition in 2006 and it became something the american parent never managed at home, which is a portal an entire country genui
1 Oct 2022 Facebook Live Shopping — taobao proved this format works. meta could not make it work anywhere else. for two years facebook let sellers tag products inside a live video and ru
1 Oct 2022 Flowdock — three helsinki developers built a shared team inbox in 2009, years before anybody was calling this category team chat. rally software bought them in f
1 Oct 2022 Thai Chana — thailand downgraded covid to a disease under surveillance on 1 october 2022, dissolved the committee that had run the response the day before, and swi
2022 Heartless Bitches International — in 1996 an ottawa software specialist named natalie prowse took the insult and put it on t-shirts. readers mailed in why somebody had called them a he
1 Oct 2022 Facebook Neighborhoods — calgary got it first, in october 2020, as a test nobody outside one canadian city could join. the idea was a dedicated space inside facebook for the p
4 Oct 2022 Amazon Glow — amazon glow was a $250 device announced on 28 september 2021 at amazon's fall hardware event and rolled out to the wider public in march 2022. it was
6 Oct 2022 Amazon Scout — snohomish county, washington got the first six of them in january 2019, cooler-sized robots in prime blue rolling down suburban sidewalks at walking p
6 Oct 2022 SoulWorker Rush — the last update landed on 29 july 2022 and after that nobody tended the game at all. maintenance stopped and the gms went quiet, while players posted
11 Oct 2022 Everipedia — two ucla students started everipedia in a dorm room in december 2014, on the complaint that wikipedia's deletion policy threw away too much. larry san
13 Oct 2022 MBnet — at 23:09 on 6 june 2002 somebody pressed a red switch in helsinki, with the former sysops standing around, and the largest bbs finland ever had went o
14 Oct 2022 Warhammer 40,000: Regicide — seven years after release the servers went off and every store page vanished on the same day, 14 october 2022, and the announcement turned up five day
14 Oct 2022 Hashbase — paul frazee and tara vancil had built a browser that let you publish a website straight from your own machine, and then ran into the problem underneat
20 Oct 2022 Fabric.com — amazon bought fabric.com in 2008 and ran it for fourteen years before closing it during a cost-cutting autumn in 2022. the last order went through on
21 Oct 2022 Makai Wars — asagi was created to star in this game, and when it did not arrive she became a running gag instead: the eternal next-game protagonist, turning up in
26 Oct 2022 Argo AI — argo ai was ford and volkswagen's shared bet on level-4 self-driving. it peaked in july 2021 at a 12.4 billion dollar valuation with lyft joining as a
28 Oct 2022 Facebook Gaming (app) — facebook gaming was meta's attempt to build a standalone twitch and youtube gaming competitor. the dedicated mobile app launched on android april 20 2
Oct 2022 Amazon Explore — amazon explore was a pandemic-era product that let you book a live one-on-one video call with a local expert somewhere in the world. a 50-minute walki
31 Oct 2022 Blendr — joel simkhai had already built grindr when he announced this one at sxsw in march 2011, under the codename project amicus. same location-first grid, o
Nov 2022 Google Talk / Hangouts (Classic) — google's chat product. it started as Google Talk in 2005 (clean, simple, XMPP-compatible). became Hangouts in 2013. became Hangouts Chat in 2017. beca
Nov 2022 Google Duo — google duo launched on august 16 2016 as the video-call half of the paired allo-duo messaging push, with end-to-end encryption by default and a knock
Nov 2022 Google Hangouts — hangouts was google's attempt to fold every one of its chat products into a single app, and for a while it worked. it grew out of google talk, the lit
Nov 2022 Torch Browser — torch was chrome's engine wearing a download manager as a coat. it folded torrents and video-grabbing straight into the browser, spread through bundli
Nov 2022 Kite — adam smith started kite in 2014 to autocomplete code with machine learning, years before anybody used the word copilot for that. it reached roughly ha
1 Nov 2022 Google Surveys — google's answer to the newspaper paywall was to charge you a question instead of money. one multiple-choice box slid over the article, the publisher e
1 Nov 2022 Square Enix Montréal — three weeks. that is how long the studio lasted under the name onoma before embracer group walked into the office on 1 november 2022 and told the staf
Nov 2022 Docracy — two developers won a hackathon in may 2011 by making legal contracts free to read and free to sign. docracy ran for eleven years and spent its last on
2 Nov 2022 Meta Portal — facebook's home video calling device. 2018 to 2022. it was a smart screen with a camera that auto-tracked you around the room while you took video cal
8 Nov 2022 Yaani — turkcell put it up in october 2017 as turkey's own search engine, announced with the line that it was not turkcell's engine but the country's. the pro
9 Nov 2022 Slingbox — the slingbox plugged into your home cable receiver and let you watch your living-room channels from any laptop in the world. it was invented by two br
11 Nov 2022 FTX — ftx was the polite-feeling crypto exchange that hosted over a million customers and bought naming rights to the miami heat arena. then in november 202
11 Nov 2022 Sogou Science Encyclopedia — an encyclopedia written by working researchers and reviewed by users holding doctorates, launched by sogou in october 2020 and switched off two years
13 Nov 2022 Mighty — suhail doshi had already built mixpanel when he decided the problem with chrome was the machine it ran on. mighty put a chromium window on a sixteen-c
14 Nov 2022 Soribada — the first korean peer to peer service, written by the yang brothers in 2000 and named ocean of sound. at its size it had around 22 million users in a
14 Nov 2022 HotLog — on 10 october 2001 a moscow company called info-stars switched on a hit counter. you pasted its code into your footer and hotlog told you how many peo
14 Nov 2022 Surrender at 20 — moobeat started a blogspot page about league of legends patch notes in february 2011, and aznbeat ran it alongside a full-time job from 2015 onward. o
15 Nov 2022 Reddit Public Access Network — for three years reddit ran a television channel whose schedule was a vote. rpan started on 19 august 2019 as a five day experiment and then stayed, wi
17 Nov 2022 Protocol — robert allbritton opened a newsroom in february 2020 about the collision between technology and government, kept it structurally separate from politic
17 Nov 2022 Qwant Music — ajaccio, corsica, had a search-engine subsidiary for about three years. it built a music search that could find a record by tempo or by chord, using a
17 Nov 2022 COCOA — forty-one million downloads, and for roughly four months of that run the android build could not deliver a single exposure notification to anybody. co
17 Nov 2022 Galactica — three days is the entire life of the public demo. meta released galactica on 15 november 2022 as a language model trained on 48 million scientific pap
18 Nov 2022 G4 TV — comcast spent two decades trying to make a cable channel for gamers and tech people happen. it launched in 2002 and absorbed techtv two years later. n
22 Nov 2022 Crowfall — the whole design was about worlds that end. campaigns ran for a month or a year and then closed for good, and you carried what you had looted back to
27 Nov 2022 Gundam Diorama Front — twice in seven years bandai namco online took this game apart and put it back out under a version number, 2nd in october 2016 and 3rd in august 2018,
28 Nov 2022 BlockFi — blockfi was a crypto lender, founded 2017 in jersey city, valued at $3 billion at peak. it took customer bitcoin deposits, paid yield, and lent the sa
28 Nov 2022 Heroku Free Tier — for fifteen years heroku was where you pushed a side project to find out if it worked. one git push, one.herokuapp.com url, no card on file. salesforc
28 Nov 2022 TrekEarth — on 28 november 2022 trekearth.com was still serving its own front page under the line learning about the world through photography. by the following m
29 Nov 2022 Smash World Tour — nintendo denied the license on 23 november 2022 and the largest grassroots super smash bros. circuit in the world ended six days later, ten days befor
30 Nov 2022 Uploaded — uploaded was the european cyberlocker that outlasted almost all of them. it survived the megaupload panic that killed the others in 2012 and kept sell
30 Nov 2022 Dragalia Lost — the one mobile game nintendo put out that was not attached to a character you already knew. cygames built it, nintendo published it, and for four year
30 Nov 2022 E-Postbrief — to get an address you went to a post office counter and showed a photo id, then confirmed a code sent by sms and a second code posted to your home on
30 Nov 2022 Sweb.cz — seznam.cz ran a free webhosting service for twenty-two years and closed it on 30 november 2022 because hardly anybody was still using it. the free tie
Nov 2022 Initiative Q — ten million people signed up for a currency that was never issued. initiative q handed out imaginary money to anyone who would invite their friends, o
30 Nov 2022 Onrush — a racing game that deleted the finish line. twelve players, two teams of six, and a respawn system called the stampede that kept everybody inside the
1 Dec 2022 elevenia — elevenia was an indonesian online marketplace, launched in march 2014 as a joint venture between the carrier XL axiata and south korea's SK planet, wh
Dec 2022 Rigveda Wiki — rigveda wiki was the korean internet writing itself down: fifteen years of pop culture, slang and argument, started on 1 march 2007 as angelhalo wiki
1 Dec 2022 Spinnup — spinnup was universal music's do-it-yourself distributor, started in sweden in 2013. you paid a flat fee, kept all your royalties, and your record wen
Dec 2022 Pantaya — nine hundred thousand people were paying six dollars a month for spanish language movies in a country that had never been offered them properly. panta
Dec 2022 BobrDobr — the biggest bookmarking service in the russian internet collapsed on the day it opened, under traffic its own launch blog had generated. maxim spirido
Dec 2022 Most Awesomest Thing Ever — teleportation finished first out of 4,418 things, ahead of time travel and ahead of the universe itself. the internet, which the voting ran on, came f
1 Dec 2022 mastodon.technology — ash furrow ran a server for 23,561 people in his spare time and announced in october 2022 that he was done. the timing is the whole story: twitter had
Dec 2022 Duplex on the Web — december 2022 is when google turned off the half of duplex that never made a phone call. duplex on the web launched at i/o 2019 and spent three years
1 Dec 2022 Super Bomberman R Online — the causation everyone reaches for here runs backwards. konami announced the end on 1 june 2022, nearly four months before google said anything about
2 Dec 2022 Facebook Live Audio Rooms — facebook live audio rooms was meta's clubhouse clone, rolled out in the united states on 22 june 2021 during the peak of the pandemic audio-social wav
2022 Cake Browser — the pitch was that a page of blue links is just another menu you have to read, so this browser preloaded the top search results as real pages and let
3 Dec 2022 Fosshost — for two years a small british nonprofit gave away servers to open source projects that could not pay for them, and by the end of 2021 around 250 of th
4 Dec 2022 Memonic — the goodbye page went up on 4 december 2022 and nobody has touched it since. behind it was memonic, a zurich notebook built by the people who made loc
6 Dec 2022 Still Processing — central park, a museum floor, whatever room was closest to the thing they wanted to argue about. wesley morris and j wortham made still processing for
6 Dec 2022 Arctype — clickhouse hired the team in october 2022 and the product got two months. the only surviving copy of arctype's goodbye is a screenshot somebody took o
7 Dec 2022 Twitter Moments — the official twitter editorial team curated big news events, sports finals, and award shows into a slide-style story of public tweets. it never quite
9 Dec 2022 Legendas.TV — half the price of a big mac a month was what the team asked for in october 2019, when it first said it would close. it got three more years. legendas.
12 Dec 2022 GolfTV — discovery bought twelve years of pga tour rights outside the united states for two billion dollars in 2018, signed tiger woods, and put the whole thin
12 Dec 2022 Weatherscan — the last one was in beckley, west virginia. weatherscan was a cable channel with no presenters and no programming, just your local forecast on an endl
15 Dec 2022 GitHub Atom — atom was github's open-source text editor, themable with javascript and css the same way a web page was. then microsoft bought github, and vs code alr
15 Dec 2022 Draw Something — draw something was a turn-based pictionary game where one player drew a word with their finger and another guessed it. omgpop launched it on february
15 Dec 2022 Atom — github announced atom on 26 february 2014 and open sourced it that may, a text editor written in javascript and css so that anyone could rewrite any p
16 Dec 2022 LGTM.com — github bought semmle in september 2019 for the query engine underneath lgtm.com and spent three years folding it into code scanning. the free public i
19 Dec 2022 Google Web Light — a google proxy that rewrote your page before it reached a phone on a slow connection. it threw out most of the weight and served what was left about f
21 Dec 2022 OpenStax CNX — connexions was one professor's argument that a textbook is the wrong unit. richard baraniuk cut teaching material into modules of a page or two, licen
23 Dec 2022 Yo-kai Watch World — google retired the mapping platform that location games were built on, and this one could not be moved off it without losing pieces of itself. gungho
27 Dec 2022 Beaker — a browser that could also make websites. you hit new site, wrote html in a built-in editor, and it was live, served off your own machine and seeded by
27 Dec 2022 ラストピリオド (Last Period) — six and a half years in, happy elements switched the servers off at three in the afternoon on 27 december 2022, and five days before that it had alrea
2022 uBid — ubid was the second-place auction site of the dot-com era. founded in 1997 by gregory knox jones as a subsidiary of creative computers, it ran consume
31 Dec 2022 Amazon Care — an employee benefit that amazon tried to sell to other employers. it never got there. the internal memo said the offering was not complete enough for
31 Dec 2022 Baidu Nuomi — it opened on 23 june 2010 as nuomi.com, owned by the company behind renren, and sold 152,165 discounted cinema tickets on its first day. baidu paid $1
31 Dec 2022 V LIVE — v live was naver's live video service for korean celebrities, opened on 1 september 2015 so that artists could broadcast to fans directly instead of t
31 Dec 2022 U17 — u17, known in chinese as 有妖气, is where china's original web comics scene lived for about six years. it opened commercially in 2009 as a place for amat
31 Dec 2022 Lego Mindstorms — seymour papert wrote a book called mindstorms in 1980 about children learning by building things that think. eighteen years later lego put his title o
31 Dec 2022 Web Platform Installer — standing up a windows web server in 2009 meant hunting down iis, the .net framework and a compatible sql server express from three different download
31 Dec 2022 BuzzVideo — bytedance had two video apps in japan and only one of them turned into tiktok. the other one started in the united states in 2015 under the name topbu
31 Dec 2022 La Cartoonerie — flash ended on 31 december 2020 and took the studio with it, but the community it had built refused to go for another two years. la cartoonerie taught
31 Dec 2022 Clara.io — exocortex stopped developing clara.io in 2015 and left it running for another seven years. it was a full 3d modeler inside a browser tab with no plugi
31 Dec 2022 Kiwi6 — 645,911 accounts, 6,880,357 files uploaded, 1,257,572,226 streams served, 46 terabytes at peak, three gigabits a second at the busiest. one person. pe
2022 ForumKristen.com — a webmaster signing himself adi opened an indonesian christian message board on 9 december 2007 and kept it alive for fifteen years, moderated by volu
31 Dec 2022 ABEMA RADIO — abema sorted itself into about twenty five channels the way a television does, and on 1 december 2017 it opened one with no picture in it. nine japane

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1 Jan 2021 Twitch Sings — twitch sings was a free-to-play streaming karaoke game co-developed by harmonix (the rock band studio) and twitch, released for windows and macos on 1
2021 HauteLook — a los angeles flash-sale site that sold designer fashion by the morning email. nordstrom bought it in 2011 for around 180 million dollars and ran it f
2021 Pipilika — pipilika launched on 13 april 2013 as the first search engine bangladesh had built for itself, written by computer science students at shahjalal unive
Jan 2021 Pixlr Editor — ola sevandersson wrote pixlr in sweden alongside a full time job and put it online in the late summer of 2008, a photoshop-shaped image editor with la
1 Jan 2021 Manga on Web — shuho sato drew umizaru and say hello to black jack, did not trust the publishers who printed them, and in 2010 built a store to sell manga straight t
2021 Galaxiki — jos kirps, working out of luxembourg, built a fictional galaxy in 2007 and then gave the stars away. something over a million solar systems turning in
Jan 2021 Koofers — at virginia tech a koofer is an old exam in the hands of somebody who has not sat it yet. three people from that campus put the practice on a server i
1 Jan 2021 Holden — a saddlery opened in adelaide in 1856 and ended up building the car australia thought of as its own. general motors bought the company in 1931 and sol
2021 Story Wars — in november 2019 the site posted that it was closing in december. three weeks later a forum thread titled "story wars is saved (officially)" told ever
5 Jan 2021 Family Video — charles hoogland opened the first store in springfield, illinois in 1978 and the family never sold the buildings, which is the whole reason the chain
6 Jan 2021 Hike Messenger — hike was india's bet on a domestic messaging app, kavin bharti mittal's attempt to do for india what wechat did for china. it raised $250m+ from softb
6 Jan 2021 Amazon Prime Pantry — five dollars ninety-nine bought one box, and you filled it: up to forty-five pounds or four cubic feet of the cheap heavy things that never made sense
12 Jan 2021 Bin Weevils — bin weevils was a british virtual world for children, a bin full of little weevils you dressed, fed through minigames, with a nest to decorate and gar
12 Jan 2021 Peanut Butter Jelly Time — two people posting as ralphwiggum and comrade flynn put a badly pixelated banana on a loop over a chant by a miami dj, and on 21 march 2002 it landed
19 Jan 2021 Google App Maker — in january 2020 google bought appsheet, and two weeks later it announced that app maker was finished. the low-code builder had shipped in november 201
21 Jan 2021 DC Universe — dc universe was the standalone streaming experiment that produced titans and doom patrol before warner folded the show side into hbo max. on january 2
21 Jan 2021 Project Loon — loon was the project that put internet service providers in the sky. helium balloons at twenty kilometers altitude with lte radios slung underneath, s
21 Jan 2021 Tucows Downloads — tucows downloads was the shareware mirror canon. founded in 1993 in flint, michigan as 'the ultimate collection of winsock software', it grew to over
26 Jan 2021 Tilt Brush — google bought tilt brush in '15 then shipped the htc vive's killer app the next april. for five years it was the cleanest demo of why room-scale vr mi
26 Jan 2021 Byte — byte was vine, tried a second time, by one of the people who built vine. it launched in january 2020 to a huge first week and a wave of goodwill from
26 Jan 2021 auウィジェット — 「auウィジェットを削除いただきますようお願い致します」. please delete the au widget. that sentence is the last thing kddi ever published about a product it had been building in
28 Jan 2021 So-net U-Page+ — ten megabytes free, and five more for a hundred yen a month if you ran out. that was the deal sony's isp offered its subscribers from july 2002, and i
31 Jan 2021 Battleborn — gearbox shipped battleborn on 3 may 2016 as a hero shooter with a first-person moba layer. overwatch shipped three weeks later. by july the concurrent
31 Jan 2021 SecretBuilders — 31 january 2021 is the date on the goodbye note, and adobe flash is the reason it had to be written. secretbuilders launched in december 2008 as a vir
31 Jan 2021 ROSS Intelligence — thomson reuters filed in delaware on 6 may 2020, and ross intelligence announced its own closing seven months later on 11 december 2020. the platform
Feb 2021 Ekiga — ekiga, first known as gnomemeeting, was a free software voip and video calling app for the gnome desktop, built by damien sandras out of a graduation
Feb 2021 Eventful — brian dear founded evdb in la jolla in january 2004 and renamed it eventful in september 2005. underneath it was a searchable database of concerts and
Feb 2021 Banjo — banjo launched on 22 june 2011 as an app that read the public geotagged posts around you and told you which of your friends were already at the same b
Feb 2021 Akazoo — 38.2 million registered users and 4.6 million paying subscribers were the numbers akazoo carried onto nasdaq in september 2019, through a spac run by
Feb 2021 Motiv Ring — april 2020, in a blog post and an faq on its own site: the current generation of rings will continue to function, and yes, the app will remain availab
3 Feb 2021 YYeTs (人人影视) — fourteen people were detained in shanghai in january 2021 and a subtitle group that had been running since 2003 was finished. yyets began with a handf
4 Feb 2021 The Overtake — leeds, october 2017. robyn vinter started a news site for people in their twenties who were not in london and could not see themselves in the papers t
5 Feb 2021 Xiami Music — xiami was the chinese music streaming service known for its detailed genre tagging and its indie catalog. it launched in 2006, was acquired by alibaba
5 Feb 2021 Halo Sport — headphones with foam spikes in the headband that pushed two milliamps through the motor cortex for twenty minutes before training, on the theory that
9 Feb 2021 plug.dj — turntable.fm walled its dj rooms to the united states, so plug.dj built the same idea for everyone else. you got an avatar in a pixel room and a queue
17 Feb 2021 Bimeks — kadıköy, around 1990. two brothers opened a shop selling computers, and it grew into the first technology retail chain in turkey and then the first on
18 Feb 2021 YouTube Space — free studio time, in a real building, for anyone with enough subscribers to qualify. youtube opened the first one in london in 2012 and got to ten cit
18 Feb 2021 Zenonzard — bandai spent an entire brand launch on the idea that the computer should be the interesting opponent. zenonzard shipped in september 2019 with a deep-
19 Feb 2021 MiTalk — mitalk was xiaomi's messaging app, and its whole tragedy is timing. lei jun shipped it in december 2010, a full month before tencent shipped wechat, a
24 Feb 2021 Fry's Electronics — fry's was a us pc-parts chain whose stores were theme-park sets dressed up as a giant motherboard or a 1950s ufo crash site, with a grocery-store aisl
26 Feb 2021 Griddy — ercot took griddy's members on 26 february 2021 and the company was finished by the same afternoon. the product was a $9.99 monthly membership that bo
28 Feb 2021 PictureTrail — picturetrail started in 1999 in santa clara as an online photo album and turned into something more useful than that: the place people kept the pictur
28 Feb 2021 Ge.tt — 53.3 million files from 6.9 million users was the count on the homepage the week it closed. the danish service had spent a decade on one trick: the up
Mar 2021 Gapyear.com — gapyear.com was a message board with an industry built around it. peter pedrick and tom griffiths put it online in july 1998 to answer the same questi
1 Mar 2021 Windows Embedded Automotive — for twenty-two years there was a windows machine in the dashboard and most of the people driving it never found out. microsoft's auto pc shipped on 4
Mar 2021 TLS 1.0 — rfc 2246 landed in january 1999 and was mostly netscape's ssl 3.0 with a new name and a few corrections, which is why so much of the web ran on it for
1 Mar 2021 Ninja Counter — at around two in the morning on saturday 25 january 2020, every function of ninja tools stopped at once. the cause was a hardware fault in the storage
2 Mar 2021 Simply Audiobooks — burlington, ontario, 2003. a subscription company started mailing audiobooks on cd to american and canadian houses with no due dates and no late fees,
3 Mar 2021 Google Cardboard — google cardboard was a fold-up viewer made of literal cardboard, with two cheap plastic lenses and a slot for a smartphone. you opened the google card
7 Mar 2021 The COVID Tracking Project — on 7 march 2020 two atlantic journalists merged their covid spreadsheet with a data scientist's, and the covid tracking project existed. for the next
9 Mar 2021 HuffPost Québec — on the morning of 9 march 2021 the staff were working. by the afternoon buzzfeed had stopped publication at huffpost canada and huffpost québec and la
12 Mar 2021 Apple HomePod (1st generation) — the homepod sounded better than any speaker at its price, costs more than anyone wanted to pay for siri, and arrived a year late. apple discontinued i
16 Mar 2021 iAuthor — on 5 december 2020 somebody at an address in ealing filed form ds01, the short document a company uses to ask the registrar to delete it. the first no
18 Mar 2021 Harmontown — a comedy writer rented the back room of a comic shop on sunset in 2011 and started holding court once a month, with a dungeon master pulled out of the
24 Mar 2021 QuizUp — quizup was an icelandic trivia app that put two strangers against each other over seven rounds of timed multiple choice. it took twenty million users
29 Mar 2021 Classilla — cameron kaiser maintained a web browser for an operating system apple had walked away from. classilla was mozilla 1.3.1 kept walking, released in 2009
29 Mar 2021 Demi.fi — a-lehdet announced on 2 february 2021 that it was closing demi, the finnish teen magazine it had published since 1998, and the forum at demi.fi went w
29 Mar 2021 Kamen Rider City Wars — the website was assembled out of another game's website, and whoever did the copying left a seam behind: the twitter panel on the kamen rider page sti
30 Mar 2021 Inkstone News — the front page of inkstonenews.com still shows a friday in december 2018, six stories deep, with a feature about competitive pole sport at the top of
31 Mar 2021 Periscope — for a couple of years live streaming from a phone was its own moment. periscope was the app for that moment. twitter bought it before the public launc
31 Mar 2021 Yahoo SiteBuilder — yahoo sitebuilder was a windows desktop application bundled free with yahoo small business hosting plans. it shipped around 2003 as a drag-and-drop si
31 Mar 2021 Super Mario 3D All-Stars — nine million copies in six months, and then nintendo pulled it on purpose. super mario 3d all-stars put three of the most important 3d platformers eve
31 Mar 2021 Super Mario Maker Bookmark — december 2015 bolted a website onto a game that had already been out for three months. you browsed strangers' mario levels from a laptop, signed in wi
31 Mar 2021 buddybuild — vancouver, 2015. a team out of microsoft and amazon built the thing every mobile developer wanted: one place that took your repository and handed back
31 Mar 2021 Azlo — pnc agreed to buy bbva's american business in november 2020, and two months later the parent closed both of the us digital banks it owned. azlo had be
Apr 2021 Yippy — yippy was the metasearch engine that grouped its results into named folders on the left rail. it started life as clusty in october 2004, built by vivi
1 Apr 2021 SIE Japan Studio — sie japan studio was sony's oldest internal development group and it made ico and shadow of the colossus, later gravity rush, plus a large amount of t
1 Apr 2021 Super Mario Bros. 35 — nintendo dropped thirty five people into the 1985 super mario bros. simultaneously and let them shovel goombas at each other. free for switch online m
Apr 2021 Oculus Rift — palmer luckey was nineteen when the kickstarter went up on 1 august 2012 and roughly 2.4 million dollars came back for a headset built out of a phone
1 Apr 2021 Gunslinger Stratos — two gun controllers whose weapon set changed depending on how you held them. square enix put gunslinger stratos into japanese arcades on 12 july 2012
5 Apr 2021 LG Wing — the wing was the last swing of a phone business that had already stopped believing in itself. a t-shaped swivel with a small square screen underneath
7 Apr 2021 Madefire — madefire spent ten years building a digital comics platform around motion books, a format that animated panel transitions and added audio cues to trad
7 Apr 2021 Warez-BB — one person held the server passwords and the database, and in late 2020 that person fell seriously ill. that is the whole story of how warez-bb ended.
9 Apr 2021 Logitech Harmony — harmony began in 2001 as easy zapper, a canadian remote that could control your entire home theater stack from one wand. logitech bought it in 2004 fo
19 Apr 2021 Manga Entertainment — manga entertainment was a video label island records started in london in 1991, and the first thing it put out was akira. it sold japanese animation t
20 Apr 2021 Maopu — maopu, mop.com, started in october 1997 as a hunan-based game community run by a netizen with the handle "mop". it became a general forum at the end o
20 Apr 2021 Mop.com — october 1997, changsha. a young man signing himself mop put up a board about game cheats, and within a decade it was the place chinese internet slang
21 Apr 2021 Thodex — thodex was a turkish crypto exchange that put up a maintenance notice on 21 april 2021 and never took it down. by then its founder was on a flight to
26 Apr 2021 Gears Pop! — gears pop! put the gears of war cast into funko vinyl proportions and dropped them onto a clash royale playfield. it shipped on 22 august 2019, a mont
28 Apr 2021 Tokyo Ghoul: Dark War — word got out at the start of april 2021 and the players spent a week hoping it was a joke. one of them posted on 6 april that he had finally pulled ju
29 Apr 2021 Defiance — defiance was an mmo trion worlds shipped on april 2 2013 to run in parallel with a syfy tv show that premiered fifteen days later. the transmedia expe
Apr 2021 Zaarly — a 2011 startup weekend idea that promised a real-time bazaar for anything you wanted done nearby. kleiner perkins put in $14 million. the demand side
Apr 2021 Yooz — iran wanted a search engine that sanctions could not reach, and paid at least seven billion tomans for one. yooz went up in february 2015 claiming a b
30 Apr 2021 CUE! -See You Everyday- — sixteen rookie voice actresses, several of them debuting here, were hired to play sixteen characters trying to become voice actresses, and the game th
30 Apr 2021 Jexia — four million euros arrived in 2019 and a third of the staff were gone by march 2020. jexia was a dutch backend-as-a-service, the kind of platform a sm
30 Apr 2021 Firefox for Fire TV — amazon and google spent the end of 2017 refusing to carry each other's products, and when google pulled the youtube app off fire tv, amazon's answer w
1 May 2021 Bintray — gradle counted over a million git repositories on github with jcenter in their build files. jfrog announced the shutdown on 3 february 2021 and bintra
4 May 2021 Yahoo Answers — the community q&a site where you typed a question into a textbox and strangers answered. peaked around 2008-2012 with billions of questions posted. be
5 May 2021 LiveLeak — liveleak hosted the video the cable networks would not show. iraq war footage, the saddam execution clip, russian dashcam crashes, every bodycam shoot
5 May 2021 MeriStation Zonaforo — forty-five million posts went out with two days of warning. zonaforo had been meristation's forum since 2000, and the closing notice posted on 3 may 2
6 May 2021 Nuzzel — nuzzel was a social news reader founded by jonathan abrams of friendster in 2012. it watched your twitter follow graph, counted how many of the people
8 May 2021 Simple — simple was the us neobank that prefigured chime and varo. josh reich founded it in 2009 with shamir karkal as cfo and alex payne on the technical side
17 May 2021 Sawmill — a one-line news post on the front page of sawmill.net, dated 17 may 2021, reads: unfortunately sawmill has gone out of business. [email protected] w
18 May 2021 TUT.by — tut.by was the belarusian internet's front door for twenty years, a portal that was the national news desk and the national mailbox at the same addres
21 May 2021 MobiTV — live tv on a phone arrived in the united states in november 2003, cost ten dollars a month on top of a sprint bill, and ran at a frame rate you had to
31 May 2021 NEWSru.com — newsru launched on 28 august 2000 as the web desk of the russian television channel ntv, built by anton nossik under the ntu.ru domain. when the state
31 May 2021 Hoax-Slayer — brett christensen started hoax-slayer in august 2003 from bundaberg, queensland, and ran it by himself for eighteen years. it existed for one job. you
31 May 2021 BlogPeople (ブログピープル) — for seventeen and a half years a small japanese company took in update pings from blogs and told everyone's sidebar which of their friends had just po
1 Jun 2021 Mindspark Interactive Network — iac's toolbar unit changed its name six times in twenty-two years and never once changed what it sold. the products were free cursors and avatar dolls
1 Jun 2021 Smiley Central — an emoticon pack for your email was the delivery vehicle. focus interactive shipped smiley central in 2002 as a free download that dropped a few thous
1 Jun 2021 Phabricator — phacility wound down on 1 june 2021 and left phabricator in what its own maintainer called bare minimum maintenance mode. evan priestley had written i
1 Jun 2021 Zync Render — thirteen months after google finished rewriting it from the ground up, the render farm stopped taking customers. zync came out of a boston visual effe
2 Jun 2021 Mobcrush — mobcrush was the most-funded attempt at being twitch for mobile games. it came out of santa monica in 2014, shipped its global ios and android apps on
2 Jun 2021 Lynda.com — lynda weinman paid thirty-five dollars for a domain in 1995 so her students could find their course notes. twenty years later linkedin paid one and a
7 Jun 2021 FIFA Online 3 — electronic arts built a football game in seoul that was never sold in a box, then gave it away and took the money back on player cards instead. nexon
24 Jun 2021 GREE (PC) — gree started in february 2004 as a small friends-of-friends social network built by yoshikazu tanaka on the side while he worked at rakuten. it was on
24 Jun 2021 Apple Daily — one million copies of the last edition, against a normal print run of about eighty thousand, and people queued overnight to get one. apple daily ran f
24 Jun 2021 Podiant — mark steadman was a web developer in birmingham who wanted to publish his own podcasts without fighting the tooling, so in 2016 he wrote the tooling.
28 Jun 2021 TV.com — tv.com was where you went to find the air date of the episode you missed or the name of the writer who handled the season finale. it ran on volunteer
29 Jun 2021 MetroLyrics — metrolyrics was a lyrics site founded in vancouver in late 2002 that grew into a 25 million monthly user database of over a million songs. cbs interac
30 Jun 2021 Google Expeditions — expeditions turned a cardboard viewer and a teacher's phone into a class trip to the reef or the surface of the moon. google shipped it in 2015 as par
30 Jun 2021 Firefox Lite — mozilla built a browser for people who counted megabytes, shipped it to indonesia first, and made it out of android's built-in webview because gecko w
30 Jun 2021 Google Poly — poly opened on 1 november 2017 as a place to find a 3d model without paying for one. you browsed a library of objects, mostly low-poly and mostly chee
30 Jun 2021 Minecraft Earth — minecraft earth was mojang's augmented reality game, announced in may 2019 and open to everyone by that december. it put buildplates and resources on
30 Jun 2021 DataMarket — a reykjavík company that took the world's public statistics, the kind published by central banks and statistical offices in whatever format the office
30 Jun 2021 Kingdom Hearts Union χ [Cross] — a free phone game ended up holding story the console series cannot do without, and in august 2024 square enix removed it from both app stores without
30 Jun 2021 Arc the Lad R — the notice said three in the afternoon. the game stopped at eleven in the morning on 30 june 2021, and the operator's own closing post is the first pl
1 Jul 2021 Relatieplanet — chris van tuijl started relatieplanet in 2002 and by 2005 it was the largest dating site in the netherlands, with more than 1.1 million accounts and a
1 Jul 2021 Make School — fifty-five former students filed suit on 1 july 2021, and make school's for-profit arm entered insolvency proceedings the same day. what it had sold t
Jul 2021 Treasuremytext — a maintenance notice went up on treasuremytext.com some time in 2020 and never came down. eight months later the same page was replaced by a goodbye t
5 Jul 2021 Sulli Deals — sulli deals was a web app that put photographs of indian muslim women up as fake auction lots, each one labeled a deal of the day. nothing was for sal
5 Jul 2021 Dragon Quest Rivals — nineteen days after launch it had ten million downloads and sat at number two on the japanese grossing chart, behind monster strike. that was november
12 Jul 2021 Kanpani Girls — dmm put you in charge of a mercenary company that had fallen into a sword-and-magic world, and then made the staffing the game. you read resumes, hire
13 Jul 2021 SQL Server Compact — on 26 october 2000 microsoft shipped a version of sql server small enough to run on a handheld, and spent the next decade renaming it. sql server ce b
13 Jul 2021 FTP in the Browser — chrome 88 switched it off on 19 january 2021 and firefox 90 deleted the code on 13 july, which closed thirty years in which an address bar did not car
15 Jul 2021 Google Tour Builder — tour builder arrived around veterans day 2013 out of google creative lab and google earth outreach, built so that someone who had served could lay the
15 Jul 2021 WWE ThunderDome — nearly a thousand led boards went up around a wrestling ring in orlando in august 2020, and the crowd arrived by video call. wwe's thunderdome handed
20 Jul 2021 Sakura Revolution — on 22 april 2021, four months and a week after launch, sega stopped selling sakura revolution's premium currency and announced that the game would clo
25 Jul 2021 Vlare — a small youtube alternative built by a handful of ex-vidlii moderators as a side project. beta launched around december 2018, ran clean for about a ye
27 Jul 2021 Nasza-Klasa — nasza-klasa launched on november 11, 2006 from wrocław. four computer-science students at the university of wrocław built a "find your old classmates"
29 Jul 2021 Itanium — 4 october 1999, intel announced the name, and somebody on usenet had it as itanic before the day was out. the chip was supposed to retire x86 with a n
30 Jul 2021 Fitbit Coach — fitstar was a video workout app from 2013 that changed the next session based on how the last one went, which in 2013 was enough to sound like the fut
30 Jul 2021 .yell plus — you bought points with real money, turned them into something called yell, and spent the yell pressing a button under a photograph an idol had taken o
31 Jul 2021 Skype for Business — Skype for Business was the corporate IM and conferencing product that lived inside Microsoft Office for fourteen years under three different names. it
31 Jul 2021 LG Mobile Communications — lg was the third korean phone brand. the one that was not samsung, and was not the government's htc-adjacent bet either. it made the chocolate, made t
31 Jul 2021 F-PROT Antivirus — eleven viruses is what version 1.13 could find at the end of 1990. two months later the number was 157 families and better than 250 variants, and the
Aug 2021 Lightweight Portable Security — the defense information systems agency stopped funding the program in 2021, no other agency volunteered to take it over, and the air force research la
3 Aug 2021 Twitter Fleets — Fleets were Twitter's Stories clone. they appeared as circular avatars above the home timeline, vanished after 24 hours, and were meant to make casual
4 Aug 2021 Whang-od Academy — maria oggay was 104 years old and the oldest mambabatok of the butbut people when a course about her hand-tapped tattooing went on sale for 750 pesos.
6 Aug 2021 Cloob — cloob.com launched on december 21, 2004 as a persian-language social network operated by sabaidea. it arrived just after iran blocked orkut and absorb
10 Aug 2021 Spectrum.chat — github bought spectrum in november 2018 and ran it for almost three more years before switching the whole site to read only. the product was threaded
Aug 2021 StartAid — the copyright footer never got past 2006. startaid launched in 2005 as an online bookmark manager with a personal start page attached, shipped a brows
18 Aug 2021 pya! — the first post went up on 15 april 2003 and it was a happy tree friends flash. eighteen years later the same person was still paying for the hosting o
20 Aug 2021 Zynn — two million downloads in a single month, most of them bought with cash. zynn paid you a dollar to sign up and points to keep watching, and it rode tha
20 Aug 2021 FloydHub — over a hundred thousand people used it, and that was the problem. floydhub rented gpus by the hour behind a command line simple enough that a model co
24 Aug 2021 Microsoft Hyper-V Server — on 24 august 2021 a microsoft program manager answered a forum question about whether there would be a hyper-v server 2022. the answer was no, 2019 wa
26 Aug 2021 Yahoo India — yahoo india was the in.yahoo.com content layer that ran from 2000 through 26 august 2021. yahoo news india, yahoo cricket, yahoo finance india, yahoo
26 Aug 2021 Gotham City Impostors — warner bros. pulled the steam page on 26 august 2021 and said nothing about it to anybody. the game had been free to play since 2012, twelve players a
28 Aug 2021 Metacafe — metacafe was the israeli pre-youtube video platform that lasted longer than almost any of its peers. founded july 2003 in tel aviv, it ran for eightee
31 Aug 2021 Excite Mail — a webmail brand that outlived the portal that made it famous by twenty years. excite launched free mail in july 1997 next to yahoo and rocketmail and
31 Aug 2021 PlayStation Video — sony opened a video store inside the playstation network on 15 july 2008, called it video unlimited under the qriocity brand, then renamed it playstat
31 Aug 2021 Shift 2: Unleashed — electronic arts pulled five need for speed games from every digital store on 31 may 2021 and turned their servers off three months later, with no warn
31 Aug 2021 FrontlineSMS — one laptop with a phone plugged into it was the whole requirement, which is why this worked in places where nothing else did. ken banks wrote frontlin
31 Aug 2021 Grimms Echoes — square enix announced the ending on 30 june 2021 and called it a completion rather than a closure. the last chapter of the main story shipped on 30 ju
31 Aug 2021 Tokusen Ichiba (クロネコヤマトの得選市場) — yamato transport's first own-brand product was not a shipping service. it was toilet paper, put on sale in june 1997, and you bought it from the drive
1 Sep 2021 Adobe Brackets — brackets was adobe's mit-licensed code editor for front-end web designers, written in the same web languages it edited. it shipped 1.0 in november 201
1 Sep 2021 Google Sites Classic — classic google sites was the closest thing google ever shipped to a free webpage builder for normal people. it was a 2006 jotspot acquisition turned i
1 Sep 2021 Souq.com — souq was the arabic-speaking gulf's amazon before amazon bought it. ronaldo mouchawar started it in dubai in october 2005 as a maktoob auction site, p
Sep 2021 Quickflix — quickflix started in perth in 2003 as a dvd-by-mail rental business modeled on early netflix, then launched streaming in october 2011 and became the f
Sep 2021 Lonely Planet Thorn Tree — the thorn tree opened on lonelyplanet.com in 1996 and took its name from a tree in a nairobi hotel courtyard that travelers had been pinning notes to
Sep 2021 Nearby Live — nearby was a live list of whoever happened to be standing near you, written by one developer named brian hamachek and launched in june 2010 on windows
Sep 2021 Play.fm — georg hitzenberger started it in vienna in 2004 as a place to put dj sets and radio shows where people could listen to them in full, and it grew into
Sep 2021 Flixwagon — in 2008 you could put live video on the web straight off a nokia phone, and a small company in bnei brak was one of the few places that let you. flixw
1 Sep 2021 Yandex.Efir — in the spring of 2021 yandex moved every эфир creator across to дзен. the view counts survived the move and the subscriber lists were gone by the end
Sep 2021 Gossip Cop — a rating of 0 meant the tabloid had made it up and a 10 meant the tabloid had it right, and for twelve years that scale was the whole product. michael
2 Sep 2021 Locast — a washington lawyer spent three years testing whether a nonprofit could retransmit free over-the-air television over the internet without paying the b
5 Sep 2021 XTube — xtube was the first adult site to import the youtube-style user-upload model on a serious scale. it launched on march 12 2006 out of ontario as a webn
7 Sep 2021 Primephonic — primephonic was the classical-only streaming service for the people who could not stand what spotify and apple music did with beethoven, where searchi
8 Sep 2021 Adobe Prelude — onlocation died because video went tapeless, and prelude shipped on 7 may 2012 to do the job tapeless footage actually created: pull the card, tag eve
17 Sep 2021 Lola.com — a boston office near south station closed in september 2021 with two shutdown dates a couple of days apart, the spend product on the fifteenth and the
21 Sep 2021 YanukovychLeaks — on 22 february 2014 the president of ukraine left his estate in a hurry and a quantity of his paperwork went into the kyiv reservoir. divers brought u
24 Sep 2021 Ask Me Another — two hundred and sixty two episodes came out of a bar room in brooklyn, with a comedian asking the questions and jonathan coulton rewriting pop songs i
26 Sep 2021 Adobe Business Catalyst — business catalyst was an australian all-in-one hosted CMS that adobe bought in '09. for the next decade it shipped as the dreamweaver-adjacent answer
29 Sep 2021 Koduj24.pl — magdalena jethon had run trójka, one of polish radio's national stations. in june 2016 she launched a news portal for the komitet obrony demokracji, t
30 Sep 2021 Google Bookmarks — google bookmarks lived inside the bookmarks.google.com subdomain for sixteen years without ever being absorbed into chrome or anything else google ran
30 Sep 2021 LinkedIn Stories — nineteen months is the whole life of linkedin stories. a brazil pilot in february 2020 grew into a global rollout with the september redesign, and lin
30 Sep 2021 Zeroshell — two hundred thousand installations and one maintainer. fulvio ricciardi wrote a linux distribution that turned a spare pc or a raspberry pi into a rou
30 Sep 2021 Capcom Online Games (COG) — capcom kept this portal running for almost two years after the last game on it had closed. the one service still breathing, an online crane game, was
1 Oct 2021 Sphero Disney Droids — sphero's licensed star wars droids were rolling app-controlled toys built off the sphero ball platform. bb-8 launched alongside the force awakens, r2-
Oct 2021 Gadu-Gadu — łukasz foltyn shipped the first version of gadu-gadu on 15 august 2000 from a small operation that grew into the company sms-express, later bought by
1 Oct 2021 Ozy Media — ozy media was a digital media startup that ran a daily newsletter and a talk show hosted by its founder carlos watson, who booked big-name guests and
1 Oct 2021 Backup and Sync — for four years there was exactly one google program that put your drive files and your photo backups under the same folder on your own disk. it shippe
3 Oct 2021 TenFourFox — cameron kaiser maintained a fork of firefox for power mac hardware apple had already abandoned, alone and in his evenings, from late 2010 until octobe
4 Oct 2021 MonoDevelop — monodevelop started in 2003 as a port of a windows ide to linux, so that people writing c# outside microsoft had somewhere to write it. it worked well
5 Oct 2021 AppCache — the standard way to make a web page work offline for most of a decade, and the thing every developer who touched it warned the next one about. you lis
6 Oct 2021 Ruqqus — ruqqus was an open-source reddit clone that launched in late 2019 with a free-speech pitch and a familiar layout. it caught a brief wave in june 2020
7 Oct 2021 jQuery Mobile — jquery's touch-optimized ui framework for mobile web apps. it shipped october 16 2010, on top of the jquery core that already powered half the web. th
7 Oct 2021 YouTube Rewind — youtube rewind was the platform's annual year-in-review tradition that ran from december 2010 through december 2019. the 2018 edition picked up more t
Oct 2021 Houseparty — houseparty was a group video chat app that you joined casually, without scheduling. you opened the app and saw which friends were already in a "house"
12 Oct 2021 Microsoft Silverlight — microsoft silverlight launched on september 5, 2007 as a browser plug-in to compete with adobe flash. it ran rich internet applications through a subs
12 Oct 2021 Winds — boulder, colorado, 2016: a feeds-as-a-service company wrote a beautiful rss reader to show what its own api could do, open sourced the whole thing, an
15 Oct 2021 Alitalia — roughly thirteen billion euros of italian state money went into this airline across seven decades and none of it bought a profitable position that hel
18 Oct 2021 Astellia — the announcement said 29 october 2021. the servers went off on the 18th instead and the steam post was edited to match, so the official closing date a
22 Oct 2021 Terça Livre — terça livre started in 2014, run by allan dos santos and italo lorenzon, and grew into the loudest bolsonarista media operation in brazil. its slogan
23 Oct 2021 10.or — huaqin technology builds phones that leave the factory wearing other companies' names, and in september 2017 it put its own name on one and sold it in
24 Oct 2021 ourWorld — a flash virtual world where you built an avatar and played little games for coins and gems. flowplay ran it for thirteen years starting in 2008, long
26 Oct 2021 CleVR — adobe switched flash off on the last day of 2020 and started blocking content on 12 january 2021. clevr was a panorama site whose stitcher was an adob
29 Oct 2021 Project Tokyo Dolls — noon on 29 october 2021, and square enix switched off one of the few original properties it had built for phones rather than licensed from its own bac
30 Oct 2021 DemoDrop — premium subscriptions covered the servers and could not cover a developer, so the man who built demodrop in 2013 wrote two paragraphs on medium in aug
31 Oct 2021 Mesosphere DC/OS — kubernetes won and this is what the losing side looked like. mesosphere raised something near $126 million to sell the idea that a datacenter should b
31 Oct 2021 Magic: Legends — stephen ricossa had to write the sentence that the vision for this game had missed the mark, three months into its own open beta, after four years of
31 Oct 2021 fastSWF — adobe set the date and everybody else kept it. fastswf spent nine years as the place you dropped a .swf when you needed a link to send somebody, and o
31 Oct 2021 x.ai — bizzabo bought x.ai in june 2021 for the scheduling engine and switched off the product that made it famous five months later. amy ingram answered ema
31 Oct 2021 Alternative Girls — drop your phone into a folded cardboard holder and the scene went stereoscopic around you. that was the selling point in july 2016 and a million downl
Nov 2021 Twinity — twinity was a berlin-built 3d virtual world that started by cloning real cities at scale. you walked a low-poly berlin in 2008, then a low-poly singap
1 Nov 2021 Next Big Sound — four students turned a northwestern class assignment into the machine that could see a hit coming. by 2014 it called more than eighty percent of the a
1 Nov 2021 Dr. Mario World — nintendo took a 1990 puzzle game about pills falling down a bottle and made a phone game where the pills float up. released july 2019 in fifty nine te
Nov 2021 Centaur Technology — glenn henry spent twenty-one years at ibm and then ran research for dell, and in april 1995 he left to prove that a small team in austin could design
2 Nov 2021 Rakugaki Kingdom — fifteen years after the last rakugaki game, taito brought the series to phones and kept the one rule that mattered: you drew the monster yourself. the
5 Nov 2021 Your News Update — two years and a fortnight is what google gave it. your news update arrived in november 2019 as the assistant's attempt at a bulletin that assembled it
18 Nov 2021 Catan: World Explorers — niantic announced it in 2019 and put it into early access in july 2020, in four countries and nowhere else. the idea was to lay catan's resource hexes
19 Nov 2021 Microsoft Channel 9 — in 2004 microsoft was a company developers did not like and did not trust. channel 9 was the answer somebody inside came up with: point a handheld cam
30 Nov 2021 Livefyre — livefyre sold publishers a comment section that updated while you were still reading it. from 2009 it replaced the refresh-and-see-what-happened threa
30 Nov 2021 Hungarian Spectrum — a historian who fled hungary in december 1956 and spent her career at yale started a blog in june 2007 explaining hungarian politics, in english, to p
Dec 2021 SalamWeb — fifteen million dollars went into a chromium fork that tried to make the web safe for muslim families, with a three layer content filter and prayer ti
7 Dec 2021 Zopa (P2P) — the world's first peer-to-peer lender ran from march 2005 to december 2021. about six billion pounds of retail loans routed through in that time. pand
7 Dec 2021 Moonfruit — a london site builder launched in january 2000 on advertising money and survived the crash by turning itself into a subscription. by the end of 2012 p
8 Dec 2021 Anime on Demand — anime on demand opened on 7 september 2007 in berlin, built by the distributor av visionen. it was the first legal way to stream anime in german. it c
9 Dec 2021 AnimeLab — madman entertainment held the australian and new zealand anime rights, so it built a streaming service that would only load for australians and new ze
12 Dec 2021 Google Toolbar — google toolbar was how google moved from a website you typed into to a thing that lived inside your browser. it had a search box and a pagerank meter
13 Dec 2021 Firefox Lockwise — firefox lockwise was mozilla's standalone-mobile-app version of the password manager already inside firefox. it shipped as test pilot "lockbox" on 26
14 Dec 2021 Sourcetrail — eberhard gräther spent a month shipping a feature he had estimated at two hours, because first he had to work out what chrome was already doing. sourc
15 Dec 2021 Sarahah — sarahah was the anonymous-feedback app that went vertical in july 2017 and crashed back down inside a year. saudi founder zain-alabdin tawfiq built a
21 Dec 2021 Assassin's Creed Identity — a single player game with no offline mode is a rental, and ubisoft stopped paying the rent on 21 december 2021. identity sat in soft launch in new zea
23 Dec 2021 Threads (Instagram, 2019 app) — instagram's first-attempt standalone messenger, tied strictly to your Close Friends list. shipped october 2019 as a private-share companion to the mai
23 Dec 2021 GarfieldEats — 995 bloor street west in toronto spent a year and a half selling a cat-shaped pizza under neon orange sauce. garfieldeats was an app before it was a r
24 Dec 2021 XS4ALL — people out of the hacker magazine hack-tic put the dutch public on the internet in 1993 and then spent a decade arguing in court on their own customer
29 Dec 2021 Stand News — stand news opened on 30 december 2014, six months after its founder closed his previous hong kong outlet saying he feared for his safety. it ran on re
30 Dec 2021 ShoutEngine — midnight pacific on december 30th 2021, and the notice had been sitting on the homepage for weeks already. chris hayes built a podcast host out of hav
31 Dec 2021 iTunes U — free stanford and mit lectures on your ipod nano, downloaded over a 2008 broadband line and shuffled in with podcasts. itunes u was the early delivery
2021 Smartisan — luo yonghao founded smartisan in beijing in may 2012 as a chinese phone brand built around obsessive industrial design. smartisan OS layered on androi
31 Dec 2021 ESPN Classic — espn classic was the twenty four hour sports archive channel that pulled old ncaa games and yankee reruns out of the tape vault and stacked them into
31 Dec 2021 Fusion TV — fusion tv was a us cable channel joint-owned by abc news and univision when it launched on 28 october 2013. it targeted english speaking millennials w
31 Dec 2021 Microsoft Academic — microsoft academic was microsoft research's third attempt at searching the scientific literature, launched in february 2016 on top of a machine-extrac
2021 Amazon Prime Now — prime now was amazon promising that the thing you ordered would be at your door before the afternoon was over. it ran out of small warehouses rented i
31 Dec 2021 Asymetrix ToolBook — paul allen founded asymetrix in 1984 and toolbook was its large idea, hypercard for windows, with an object-oriented scripting language called openscr
31 Dec 2021 NBC Sports Gold — nbc sports gold opened in june 2016 as a single cycling pass at thirty dollars a year, sold to the small number of americans who wanted every stage of
31 Dec 2021 LINE TV Thailand — forty million people in thailand used it, which in a country of seventy million is most of the internet. line tv arrived on android on 28 october 2014
31 Dec 2021 Areamobile.de — 1.4 million visits a month and a place in germany's top 500 websites were not enough to keep it open. areamobile.de reviewed mobile phones in german f
31 Dec 2021 SoulWorker Academia — the chinese server went dark first, on 24 november 2021. six days later yjm games told korean players that the developer could no longer keep the thin
31 Dec 2021 Kinza — dayz inc of nihonbashi, tokyo, shipped a chromium browser in may 2014 and called it the eternal youth browser. kinza's whole argument was that a japan

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2020 Yookos — yookos was the christ embassy social network. it started inside the church in 2011 and opened to the public soon after. nigeria was the traffic core w
2020 SopCast — sopcast was a chinese p2p streaming client out of the early 2000s peer-to-peer era. you ran a tiny windows app and joined a channel by pasting a sop:/
Jan 2020 Zing Me — zing me was the vietnamese social network vng built and launched in august 2009 off the back of its zing music and zing news portal traffic. on 23 sep
2020 Grou.ps — the biggest name to come out of the turkish web 2.0 scene, a build-your-own social network you could point at any community you wanted. it peaked in 2
2020 Palm Phone (2018) — tcl rented the palm name and stuck it on a 3.3-inch phone you were meant to buy in addition to your real phone. verizon-exclusive, 349 dollars, a comp
1 Jan 2020 Radionomy — four belgians launched radionomy in brussels in april 2008 with an offer that sounded too easy to be legal: build an internet radio station, we cover
2020 Taazi — a pakistani pop star spent three years building the store his own industry did not have. everything on taazi was there under a written agreement, you
2020 Zorpia — hong kong social network from december 2003 that claimed 26 million accounts and built a large share of them out of address books belonging to people
2020 installCore — ironsource built a wrapper that let any freeware download carry passengers. the developer got paid per install, the person at the keyboard got a next
2020 Não Salvo — for about a decade the default joke format of the brazilian internet came out of one blog run by one man in são paulo. maurício cid started it in 2008
Jan 2020 MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) — forty five million pages went into the migration and microsoft redirected every one of them. msdn began in september 1992 as a quarterly cd-rom subscr
2020 Curiosity.com — six million dollars of chicago venture money went into a website whose main job was pointing at other people's videos. curiosity launched inside disco
2020 Edorble — in december 2015 two developers opened a public beta for a 3d classroom you could walk a seminar into, built in unity, about five years before every l
1 Jan 2020 War Wings — tencent built a second world war dogfighting game, and miniclip rebuilt it for the western stores as the first thing it shipped from its new owner. a
6 Jan 2020 Precatus no Tenbin — 1.4 million people pre-registered. fuji games, the television network's studio, built it on an engine the company had written in-house and called it t
Jan 2020 itiraf.com — itiraf.com opened in october 1999, built by ersan özer while he was working at ntv, and it asked turkish visitors for one thing: type the sentence you
8 Jan 2020 Mozy — mozy was a cloud backup service that started in 2005 as berkeley data systems in american fork, utah. emc bought it in october 2007 for 76 million dol
8 Jan 2020 CollegeHumor — collegehumor went up on 7 december 1999, two friends from baltimore posting jokes for other american undergraduates, and grew into one of the largest
10 Jan 2020 Remix 3D — microsoft opened a free 3d model library in october 2016 because paint 3d was about to arrive on every windows 10 machine in the world and would need
10 Jan 2020 3D Buzz — jason busby died of cancer in 2017 and the company he started did not really survive him. he founded 3d buzz in january 2001 in dickson, tennessee, an
14 Jan 2020 Windows 7 — windows 7 shipped october 22 2009 as the apology for vista. it sold over 630 million licenses and held the worldwide desktop crown from 2011 through m
14 Jan 2020 Microsoft Security Essentials — microsoft security essentials was a free antivirus microsoft released on 29 september 2009 under the codename morro. it was deliberately plain. it too
15 Jan 2020 Microsoft Edge Legacy — edge legacy was the browser microsoft built to escape internet explorer. it shipped with windows 10 in july 2015 on a new engine called edgeHTML and a
Jan 2020 Asian Correspondent — one million visitors inside eight months, which for an english language asia desk launched in october 2009 was a real number. asian correspondent ran
15 Jan 2020 JPEG XR — two standards bodies approved it and microsoft published a bsd licensed library so that anyone could implement it for free. not one competing browser
Jan 2020 HitQuarters — a cpanel account suspension killed this one, which is an undignified way for a twenty year old trade publication to go. hitquarters launched on 20 sep
18 Jan 2020 TerraServer.com — eliot higgins found out from the error page. the commercial half of the old microsoft terraserver project sold satellite and aerial imagery for a few
Jan 2020 Scout FM — by january 2020 the stations had stopped answering. scout fm spent two years building podcast radio for alexa and the phone, hand-picked first and the
22 Jan 2020 Microsoft Internet Games — windows shipped with a backgammon board that could find you an opponent in another country, and for twenty years it did exactly that. there was no cha
22 Jan 2020 Tanki X — the players would not move. alternativaplatform spent years building a unity client to carry tanki online past flash, shipped it on steam in april 201
23 Jan 2020 Hipmunk — adam goldstein and steve huffman launched hipmunk in 2010 as a flight-search site with an 'agony index' that ranked itineraries by total misery rather
30 Jan 2020 PlayStation Vue — playstation vue was sony's live-tv-over-the-internet service, launched in march 2015 with around 75 channels and aimed at cable cutters. it peaked nea
30 Jan 2020 Jumpshot — two friends from tulane built jumpshot in 2010 as a tool for unclogging a slow windows machine. avast bought it in 2013 and kept the name, which by 20
31 Jan 2020 Hudson — a java continuous integration server that one engineer at sun wrote in 2005 and most of the java world ended up running. oracle inherited it along wit
31 Jan 2020 yaplog! — japan ran on rental blog services for most of the 2000s, and yaplog was the one for people who had never made a web page. gmo took over a 2001 service
31 Jan 2020 Canon Irista — canon europe built a cloud that would only take photographs. it launched in june 2014 out of a beta codenamed project 1709, handed out 10 gb free and
31 Jan 2020 Highly — twitter took the team in april 2019 and left the product running without them. the apps went first, on 26 april 2019, and the web service limped on fo
31 Jan 2020 Snips — sonos closed the deal on 14 november 2019 and the snips console shut on 31 january 2020, which took with it the easiest way to train a voice assistant
31 Jan 2020 ScryptMail — five hundred mailboxes was the opening inventory. sergei krutov announced scryptmail on an email forum in november 2014, promising encrypted metadata
31 Jan 2020 Hatena Group — 800 yen a month for five users, rising to 6,400 for a hundred. that was the published price list when hatena opened its groupware beta on 23 april 200
31 Jan 2020 Osaifu.com (お財布.com) — the beta opened in february 2004, and the company that built it was not incorporated until april, by which point the thing already had seventy thousan
Feb 2020 FireChat — firechat was the messenger you used when the network was off. it routed messages over bluetooth and peer-to-peer wifi, hopping device to device, no in
1 Feb 2020 VampireFreaks — vampirefreaks was the goth and industrial subculture's online home for two decades. jet berelson started it in 1999 out of new york as a message board
Feb 2020 Cool Site of the Day — cool site of the day was glenn davis's link-of-the-day site, the original one-good-link-a-day publication on the web. davis launched it on august 10 1
Feb 2020 Google Station — a program that put free public wifi into railway stations and other crowded places, mostly in india, then across a handful of emerging markets. google
1 Feb 2020 TV by the Numbers — two people in california started posting nielsen overnights in september 2007 and worked out that the interesting question was not how many watched bu
Feb 2020 Spil Games — 190 million people a month were playing browser games on spil games sites in 2012, across more than fifty portals in twenty languages, and almost none
Feb 2020 Kulmosnet (קולמוסנט) — seventeen years of hebrew writing, none of it paid, edited by volunteers who were not paid either. kulmosnet opened in march 2003 to give people who w
2 Feb 2020 Virgin Mobile USA — virgin mobile usa was a joint venture between richard branson's virgin group and sprint, incorporated on 18 october 2001 and selling phones from the s
4 Feb 2020 Google Fiber TV — google fiber tv was google selling cable television. nearly two hundred channels over its own fiber, a set-top box, a dvr that could record eight show
4 Feb 2020 HTML Imports — two percent of chrome page loads were still using it when google filed the paperwork to remove it, and most of that two percent was polymer. html impo
5 Feb 2020 Jabong — jabong was rocket internet's fashion store for india, launched in january 2012 out of gurugram and built to the same blueprint the company was running
6 Feb 2020 One Today — on 27 january 2020 the people still using one today got an email giving them ten days. google.org had launched it in april 2013 as an invitation-only
10 Feb 2020 Brandless — brandless was the softbank-funded dtc generics store that priced almost everything at three dollars and used a clean white-label visual to imply you w
12 Feb 2020 Essential Phone — the phone android's co-founder built to out-android google. andy rubin left google, started essential, and in 2017 shipped the ph-1: a titanium and ce
12 Feb 2020 AtlasGlobal — the reason the airline gave when it stopped flying in november 2019 was the cost of operating out of istanbul's new airport, on top of a currency that
14 Feb 2020 HQ Trivia — hq trivia was a live trivia gameshow that ran twice a day on your phone. scott rogowsky read multiple-choice questions to a few million people at once
14 Feb 2020 HQ Words — hq words was the second game inside the hq app, launched in december 2018, a few days after co-founder colin kroll was found dead in his manhattan apa
14 Feb 2020 YouTube Doubler — "thanks for all the fun, but after 12 years of good times it's time to say good bye." that line replaced youtube doubler somewhere between 12 and 14 f
18 Feb 2020 Makani — most of a wind turbine is tower. makani started in alameda in 2006 on the argument that a tethered wing flying tight circles does the same work with a
19 Feb 2020 Tencent Dajia — dajia was tencent's long-form opinion platform for chinese liberal intellectuals, launched december 15 2012 under editor-in-chief jia jia. it ran on w
24 Feb 2020 Pokémon Global Link — pokemon global link was the companion website that ran competitive ladders and the dream-world layer for gen 5 through gen 7 of the main pokemon games
27 Feb 2020 Duelyst — a card game where the cards had to stand somewhere. duelyst put a 9 by 5 grid under the whole genre so that position mattered as much as the deck. it
28 Feb 2020 Chappy — ollie locke launched chappy in 2017 with jack rogers as a gay dating app positioned against grindr's hookup default. bumble backed it from the start a
28 Feb 2020 Wandoujia — two hundred million dollars is what alibaba paid in july 2016 for a company that had been valued above one and a half billion two years earlier. wando
28 Feb 2020 Hello Internet — 28 february 2020: episode 136, and then nothing. brady haran and cgp grey had been making an unscripted show about their own work for six years, long
29 Feb 2020 Car2Go / Share Now — car2go was daimler's free-floating carshare. it launched in ulm in october 2008, expanded through europe and north america across the next decade, mer
Feb 2020 Aurasma (HP Reveal) — the augmented reality app from autonomy's cambridge office that every classroom worksheet and museum exhibit told you to download for a few years. poi
1 Mar 2020 Webwereld — oscar kneppers came back from silicon valley in 1995 and started a dutch tech news site before most dutch people had a modem. for a while webwereld wa
2 Mar 2020 Mozilla IRC — at noon eastern on 2 march 2020, irc.mozilla.org was switched off after more than twenty-two years. moznet was where the mozilla project did its synch
3 Mar 2020 Upthere — western digital bought the whole company in august 2017, ran it for two and a half years, then posted a banner saying the service would end on 3 march
3 Mar 2020 Atrium — justin kan co-founded the company that became twitch and sold it to amazon for $970 million, then spent 2017 to 2020 trying to do the same thing to co
4 Mar 2020 Boosted — the electric skateboard that made the category feel real, then could not survive a tariff. boosted started as a stanford kickstarter in 2012 and shipp
12 Mar 2020 Pricesearcher — one point one billion products from more than two and a half thousand retailers, indexed by a crawler built for the job, and not one penny charged to
16 Mar 2020 Dragon Ball Z Bucchigiri Match — enza was bandai namco's answer to the app stores: html5 games that ran in a browser tab on a phone or a desktop, with nothing to install and no store
18 Mar 2020 Rapportive — rapportive was a gmail extension that put a person's face and linkedin profile in your inbox the instant you typed their address. it was the first gma
20 Mar 2020 IncrediMail — incredimail was email for people who wanted email to be fun. it wrapped your messages in animated backgrounds and little cartoon characters that dance
21 Mar 2020 Xiu.com — warburg pincus and kpcb put a hundred million dollars into a chinese luxury fashion store in august 2011, the largest second round the sector had seen
23 Mar 2020 Sansar — linden lab spent four years building sansar as a clean and vr-capable second life. it launched in public beta on july 31 2017, hit a steady but small
26 Mar 2020 Ring Dream: Joshi Pro Wrestling Taisen — korakuen hall, 29 december 2015, 1,279 people and the doors shut. the promoter was a browser card game. success ran this thing on yahoo mobage and mix
31 Mar 2020 SETI@home — seti@home was a berkeley screensaver that borrowed idle cpu time from home pcs to sift arecibo radio data for narrow-band signals from other civilizat
31 Mar 2020 freedb — an audio cd carries no text on it at all, only track lengths. every program that showed you song titles was quietly asking a server somewhere to ident
31 Mar 2020 American FactFinder — twenty years of census tables sat behind one query form, and on 31 march 2020 the form went away. american factfinder was the census bureau's public f
31 Mar 2020 Fenglin Net (楓林網) — two software engineers with masters degrees from national taiwan university ran the island's largest piracy streaming site out of a flat in taoyuan fo
31 Mar 2020 Yapta — a fire in the pioneer square office on launch morning did not stop yapta's public beta in may 2007. the add-on kept watching an airfare after you boug
31 Mar 2020 Wikimedia Space — it lived on a test server for its entire life, at an address ending in wmflabs, which is a fair measure of how much the foundation had committed to it
31 Mar 2020 VALU — on 15 august 2017 a japanese youtuber sold off every pseudo-share he had issued in himself, at the top, into the fans who had bid him there. valu had
31 Mar 2020 Yahoo! Minna no Seiji — an npo staffed largely by university students ran japan's biggest political accountability site and yahoo japan put its name on the front of it. minna
31 Mar 2020 UA HealthBox — under armour spent something like seven hundred million dollars buying other people's fitness apps, then decided it also needed hardware of its own to
31 Mar 2020 Fight League — mixi shipped this one into six countries and territories at once in june 2017, which is more confidence than most japanese phone games get on day one.
31 Mar 2020 宅ふぁいる便 (Takufile-bin) — osaka gas built a file transfer service in 1999 so it could swap large files with its own suppliers. the suppliers asked whether they could use it for
Apr 2020 SnagFilms — snagfilms gave away documentaries. no subscription and no account needed, just an ad before the film and another one partway through, on a catalog tha
Apr 2020 Slyck.com — slyck existed because in 2000 nobody else was covering file sharing as anything other than a crime beat. ray hoffmann and thomas mennecke started it a
2020 Adioso — two australians spent twelve years trying to build a flight search that took a sentence instead of a form. you typed melbourne to europe late septembe
1 Apr 2020 BBC Mixital — more than a million things got made on mixital: doctor who games, and robots in strictly costumes that you programmed to dance using a few lines of ht
3 Apr 2020 The Outline — the outline was joshua topolsky's post-verge attempt at a mobile-first news site for people who liked design more than they liked news. it ran for thr
12 Apr 2020 Free Lossless Image Format — in april 2020 somebody added seven lines to the readme saying development had stopped. flif had spent four years winning compression benchmarks and lo
13 Apr 2020 MSQRD — msqrd was a belarusian ar-selfie app built at a 48-hour minsk hackathon in late 2015 and downloaded fifty million times inside a few months. facebook
14 Apr 2020 Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway — twenty three years and three names for one job: sit between an office and the internet, and decide what gets through. it arrived as microsoft proxy se
Apr 2020 Stupid.com — gary apple wrote sitcoms for a living, and the shop he started put its own review on the front page: a complete waste of perfectly good technology. it
23 Apr 2020 Google Contributor — the pitch fit in one sentence. you paid google a few dollars a month, and on sites inside its ad network the ads came out and a pattern of colored pix
23 Apr 2020 Manga Rock — muso measured it above the pirate bay for traffic and similarweb put it second in books and literature behind wattpad, which is a strange position for
26 Apr 2020 Baidu Hi — baidu hi was baidu's instant messenger for china, announced february 29 2008 and shipped that march. the launch pitch was an msn-style client tightly
29 Apr 2020 Cliqz — a firefox fork plus its own search engine, built and bankrolled by a german media conglomerate to compete with google in europe. it stayed european-co
29 Apr 2020 Gameplanet — it grew out of the first counter-strike server in new zealand and became the place the country read about games for twenty years. mighty ape took a co
30 Apr 2020 HOOQ — hooq was the singtel-led southeast asia svod product that launched 30 january 2015 with sony pictures and warner bros as the minority partners. it ran
30 Apr 2020 Moven (consumer bank) — the funding fell through in march 2020 and the consumer bank went with it. brett king had started movenbank in 2011 on the argument that banking was s
May 2020 Playster — a montreal subscription service that tried to be netflix plus audible plus a book club plus a game pass, all inside one login and one bill. the audiob
May 2020 Official Xbox Magazine — future launched it in november 2001 at the first xbox launch, under a licensing arrangement with the company whose console it reviewed. the american e
6 May 2020 Wunderlist — wunderlist was the berlin todo app that figured out how to make a list look pretty on six platforms at once. microsoft bought it in june 2015 for some
6 May 2020 Wink Hub — wink shipped in 2014 as quirky's cloud smart-home hub with ge's z-wave gear behind it. by 2017 it had been sold twice, ending up under will.i.am's i.a
7 May 2020 JUMP Bikes — jump started in 2010 as social bicycles, a brooklyn startup that built dock-free bike share with a lock built into the rear wheel. it rebranded to jum
12 May 2020 Google Neighbourly — neighbourly let people in indian cities ask the folks nearby the small questions maps could not answer, like which chemist stays open past midnight. g
12 May 2020 WoWWiki — it started the day after world of warcraft shipped and grew into the biggest thing wikia hosted, four to five million readers a month. then wikia chan
18 May 2020 livedoor Search — on 18 may 2020 livedoor switched off the search box that had been on its front page since the portal opened. from september 2010 its results had been
21 May 2020 Sega Heroes — sega heroes was a match-3 puzzle-rpg mobile game that ran 68 characters from 15 sega franchises through a candy-crush-style grid. demiurge studios dev
22 May 2020 Audience Network — audience was a directv-only prestige originals channel. it launched 25 november 1999 as freeview. it rebranded to the 101 network in 2005 and became a
22 May 2020 10 daily — a television network built a written newsroom for people who had stopped watching television, launched it in may 2018, renamed it five months later in
22 May 2020 Kozmos — google's chrome web store killed kozmos with a robot. azer koçulu built the thing alone in 2017, a bookmarking service where you pressed a heart butto
26 May 2020 Container Linux — a linux distribution with no package manager, built on the premise that a server is disposable and its operating system should update itself without a
27 May 2020 MapleStory 2 — nexon's voxel-art sequel to the 2003 2d original. korea got it in 2015. the global version launched october 2018 with a cosmetic-only cash shop and a
27 May 2020 Wikishuffle — episode 104 arrived on 27 may 2020, three years and four months after episode 103, and the show notes called it a final whimper. the whole format was
28 May 2020 Automatic — siriusxm paid around a hundred and fifteen million dollars for automatic labs in 2017 and switched the whole thing off at 11:59pm pacific on 28 may 20
29 May 2020 Dragon's Prophet — runewaker built a taiwanese mmorpg on one good idea, that the dragons were there to be caught rather than killed, and then handed it to a series of pu
31 May 2020 Airy Rooms — airy signed up small independent hotels across a hundred indonesian cities, held every partner room to the same seven-point standard and put its own b
31 May 2020 TSSZ News — at 20:31 utc on 31 may 2020 the longest-running sonic the hedgehog news site was still serving its front page. by 21:54 it was serving a closed notice
31 May 2020 Spacewalk — jim whitehurst stood up at red hat summit in june 2008 and said the satellite code was going to the community. what came out of that was spacewalk, th
Jun 2020 Topspin Media — beats music bought topspin on march 4, 2014 and sold it on to a private equity firm inside about a month, weeks before apple bought beats for three bi
1 Jun 2020 Samsung S Voice — you said hi galaxy and then you waited. s voice shipped on the galaxy s III in may 2012 as samsung's answer to siri, running on vlingo underneath and
1 Jun 2020 Heroes Wiki — nbc did something in 2008 that television networks almost never did. instead of building its own wiki or sending lawyers, it funded the fan one and po
2 Jun 2020 Precure Tsunagaru Puzzlun — two o'clock on a tuesday afternoon is when bandai namco closed the first proper pretty cure smartphone game, which means it ended while most of the ch
3 Jun 2020 Raramagi — eighteen million yen, raised after the game was already dead. raramagi was a school rpg about a music club on the edge of being shut down, in which yo
4 Jun 2020 Jet.com — jet.com was the most expensive customer-acquisition deal in walmart's history. marc lore launched it in july 2015 as an amazon-shaped discount marketp
Jun 2020 SGT STAR — the us army spent at least five million dollars on a chatbot that answered more than ten million recruitment questions over fourteen years. sgt star c
11 Jun 2020 Disney Deluxe — disney deluxe was the streaming service disney ran in japan before disney+ existed there, built with ntt docomo and charged to a docomo account for 75
11 Jun 2020 三國志曹操伝 ONLINE (Sangokushi Sōsōden Online) — on 11 june 2020 at 11:00 the japanese servers went off, and the korean ones went with them the same day, which is not how regional shutdowns usually w
Jun 2020 Virb — one of the would-be myspace successors of 2007 that never built a user base, pivoted into a paid website builder under media temple, got carried along
15 Jun 2020 Surgisphere — an open letter with more than two hundred signatures on it, posted on 28 may 2020, is what took this apart. the arithmetic in a lancet paper on hydrox
16 Jun 2020 National Emergency Library — on 24 march 2020 the internet archive took the waiting list off 1.4 million scanned books and called the result the national emergency library. ten we
23 Jun 2020 Oculus Go — the cheap door into standalone vr, and the one that got left behind fastest. the go needed no pc and no phone, just the headset and $199, and for a mo
23 Jun 2020 ScaleFactor — $103 million went into an austin company selling small businesses automated bookkeeping, and the automation was dozens of accountants in texas and an
24 Jun 2020 iflix — iflix was the kuala lumpur subscription streamer that was supposed to be the regional answer to netflix in southeast asia. it spread across thirteen c
25 Jun 2020 Wirecard — wirecard was a bavarian payment processor that faked the third of its revenue that made it look serious. when the auditor finally refused to sign off
27 Jun 2020 Red Light Radio — a former brothel window on the oudekerksplein, directly beside the oldest building in amsterdam, with a desk and two turntables in it. that was the wh
29 Jun 2020 r/The_Donald — a reddit forum created on 27 june 2015, eleven days after donald trump announced his campaign, which grew past 790,000 subscribers and spent five year
29 Jun 2020 TikTok India — india was tiktok's largest market outside china, around two hundred million users, and a lot of them were the first people in their family to be on th
30 Jun 2020 Genographic Project — national geographic and ibm started a study in 2005 to map how humans had moved across the planet, then did something unusual with it and sold the pub
30 Jun 2020 123 Importados — 123 importados opened in january 2020 selling televisions and refrigerators at prices no real retailer could match, took payment by boleto only, and t
30 Jun 2020 Mobius Final Fantasy — square enix put the final fantasy xiii team on a phone game and shipped it in japan on 4 june 2015, then worldwide the following august. it passed 20
30 Jun 2020 Suntuubi.com — a free finnish homepage builder opened in 2006 with a guestbook under every gallery and an in-house currency called credits, which you spent on a doma
30 Jun 2020 CodeFund — no cookies and no tracking pixels: codefund sold ads on open source documentation and refused the mechanisms that make ad tech pay. eric berry started
30 Jun 2020 Terra Battle — two million downloads was the finish line, and mistwalker crossed it on 30 april 2015 without having decided what the prize would be. terra battle ran
30 Jun 2020 MENUS — a semiconductor trading house built the engine. tokyo electron device launched ohganic in july 2013, a browser app that let a computer assemble a comp
30 Jun 2020 Origami Pay — yoshiki yasui founded origami in february 2012 to build a shopping app, and in may 2016 turned it into a payment app you used by holding a phone up to
Jul 2020 Microsoft Tellme — tellme was the answer to a question nobody asks anymore. you wanted weather or stock quotes read aloud to you by a computer, and you wanted it without
1 Jul 2020 iBooks Author — ibooks author was a free mac app for building interactive ipad textbooks with quizzes and embedded video and 3d widgets. apple launched it at a new yo
Jul 2020 Trilulilu — trilulilu was the romanian-language youtube clone that sergiu biris and andrei dunca launched 22 january 2007 in bucharest. it ran video and image upl
1 Jul 2020 Blogcu.com — blogcu was where turkish blogging happened for people who did not want to run their own anything. beriltech launched it in 2005 as the country's first
1 Jul 2020 Bitbucket Mercurial Support — bitbucket launched in 2008 as a mercurial-only host, added git three years later, and by 2019 fewer than one percent of its new users were picking mer
Jul 2020 mozdev.org — free project hosting for anyone building on top of mozilla, started in september 2000 by two people who thought the browser should be a platform and n
Jul 2020 Mistergooddeal — two million euros bought a twenty-year-old french e-commerce brand in 2014, which tells you most of what the last decade had been like. mistergooddeal
Jul 2020 Dilidili — wen bote ran it out of fuzhou for six years and got three years and three months for it. dilidili opened in 2014 as 无名小站, bought the name it would die
1 Jul 2020 台灣動物新聞網 (Taiwan Animal News Network) — falling donations closed a newsroom on 1 july 2020. the animal protection association of the republic of china had spent four and a half years recruit
Jul 2020 honestbee — three hundred and nineteen point nine million singapore dollars is what honestbee still owed once the liquidators finished counting, most of it to for
Jul 2020 Tfile — fourteen years and four domain names, and the thing that finally stopped it was nobody renewing the fight. tfile opened in november 2006, peaked in 20
1 Jul 2020 Tigris.org — collabnet gave the internet twelve weeks of notice, in one line of text across the top of every page on 7 april 2020, naming 1 july as the end. tigris
Jul 2020 Flashblock — 593,876 firefox users had flashblock installed in january 2016, and 424,955 of them were left by the middle of 2017. philip chee had maintained it sin
1 Jul 2020 The Subservient Chicken — april 2004: burger king paid for a web page where a man in a chicken suit did whatever you typed into the box. it is credited with helping reverse yea
6 Jul 2020 UrbanBaby — a married couple in new york started it in august 1999 as a guide for city parents, and the message boards took the site over. every post was unsigned
7 Jul 2020 Lightbox (New Zealand) — lightbox was new zealand's first subscription streaming service, launched by the phone company spark in august 2014, six months before netflix arrived
10 Jul 2020 Facebook Lasso — facebook noticed teens leaving instagram for tiktok and shipped a copy in november 2018. lasso did 15-second music dances, hashtag discovery, the whol
10 Jul 2020 Hobbi — between seven and ten thousand people installed hobbi, total, across its whole life. facebook's new product experimentation team put it on the ios sto
11 Jul 2020 Faking News — a delhi management consultant signing himself pagal patrakar started faking news in september 2008, inventing indian news stories at a time when almos
14 Jul 2020 Jing — jing was the free half of camtasia. it lived as a small yellow sun stuck to the edge of your screen, and when you pulled it out you could grab a still
15 Jul 2020 Segway PT — the self-balancing scooter that was supposed to remake the way cities were built. dean kamen unveiled it in december 2001 with a level of secrecy and
20 Jul 2020 Soup.io — soup.io launched in april 2007 from vienna as a tumblelog where one stream pulled in your posts plus everything you reblogged. it had a moment in the
22 Jul 2020 Microsoft Mixer — mixer was microsoft's twitch competitor. it launched in 2016 as beam, microsoft bought it the same year, then in summer 2019 wrote ninja and shroud bi
22 Jul 2020 Kongregate — kongregate was the flash games portal jim and emily greer launched in october 2006 as the english-language hub for embedded browser games. at peak it
Jul 2020 Yandex.Money — yandex.money launched in 2002 as a joint venture between yandex and the paycash electronic-money operator out of saint petersburg. it became the defau
22 Jul 2020 Pokémon Rumble Rush — ambrella had been making the pokémon games nobody counts since hey you pikachu in 1998, and the rumble series of tap-and-collect toy battlers was its
23 Jul 2020 Alkışlarla Yaşıyorum — alkışlarla yaşıyorum was the turkish clip site that got its audience because youtube was illegal. fatih aker started it in august 2004, and when the y
24 Jul 2020 Echo Look — $200 camera with alexa, sold as the device that would help you decide which outfit to wear. you stood in front of it, took a full-length photo, then t
29 Jul 2020 Groovera — an internet radio station with six channels of downtempo and lounge, run from a living room in seattle by one person who broadcast as tommy ohmz and p
30 Jul 2020 Sorabel — sorabel was an indonesian fashion shop that lived on your phone, cheap women's clothes with a trick attached: the courier waited at your door while yo
30 Jul 2020 CIAYO Comics — indonesia had a comics industry that never recovered from the nineties, and ciayo tried to restart it by paying artists directly and charging readers
30 Jul 2020 BATON=RELAY — a hundred and thirty days. i-tron spent seven months building a voice-actress project around sixteen newcomers, with a known manga artist on character
31 Jul 2020 HBO Go — the streaming app for people who already paid for hbo through their cable provider. launched 2010 as a free-with-cable web player and folded into hbo
31 Jul 2020 Focals by North — north spent eight years and close to two hundred million dollars getting a display into a pair of glasses that still looked like glasses, and it worke
1 Aug 2020 Trover — trover was a travel-photo discovery app launched in 2011 by rich barton and jason karas out of seattle. the pitch was a map full of geo-tagged photos
Aug 2020 Pepper — on 5 june 2014 masayoshi son walked a four foot humanoid onto a stage in tokyo and said it could read how people felt. the first thousand consumer uni
2 Aug 2020 Sprint — sprint was the fourth us carrier. it never reached turkey at the carrier layer, where the names on a bill were turkcell or vodafone. when t-mobile bou
12 Aug 2020 Deathgarden — behaviour interactive already had dead by daylight, so it built the same shape as a shooter. one invincible hunter carrying the only gun in the match,
14 Aug 2020 KissAnime — the largest pirate anime site of the 2010s. eight years of subbed and dubbed catalogs running on a wordpress-shaped frontend, killed two months before
16 Aug 2020 Blog.cz — at its peak around 2010 blog.cz held roughly eight hundred thousand blogs and close to two million registered accounts, most of them czech teenagers w
21 Aug 2020 Yandex.Aura — german tsarev, who had run big data ad products inside yandex, built the company a social network that introduced strangers by machine and then would
25 Aug 2020 PayPay Dash — one store, one neighborhood, about a hundred and fifty products, thirty minutes, a bicycle. that was the whole of paypay dash, a joint trial between y
26 Aug 2020 CarambaTV.ru — on 28 july 2020 sts media bought the last 49 percent of ooo karamba tv. four weeks later the site stopped answering, and by early september carambatv.
Aug 2020 Everalbum — a photo-cloud startup found consumer traction with unlimited backup, quietly trained a face-recognition model on user photos with consent toggles that
31 Aug 2020 Krovatka.Ru — кроватка began as a chat artyom podstreshny wrote in 1996 and went up under its own name on 29 september 1997, on servers borrowed from radio moscow s
31 Aug 2020 Telex — telex was a switched network of teleprinters, started in germany in 1933 and eventually reaching every country with a post office. you dialed another
31 Aug 2020 Bookogs — in august 2020 discogs switched off four of its own databases on the same day, and bookogs was the biggest of them. a hundred and fifty five thousand
31 Aug 2020 Super Sentai Legend Wars — forty years of a saturday morning television franchise, loaded into one phone app so a child could put a 1975 hero in a team with a 2020 one. bandai n
1 Sep 2020 Google Hire — google hire was a paid applicant-tracking system for small and medium businesses built on top of gmail and the google workspace stack. it launched in
1 Sep 2020 Blanja.com — the indonesian state phone company and ebay put a marketplace together and gave it the address of telkom's old portal. six years later telkom's own an
Sep 2020 Spinlet — spinlet began in tampere in 2006 as a finnish music player that went nowhere. nigerian investors bought it in 2011 and relaunched it out of lagos as t
1 Sep 2020 Tinycards — two hundred thousand decks, made by users, covering everything from spanish verbs to pokemon stats. duolingo built tinycards in 2016 as its first prod
1 Sep 2020 Sky España — on 23 july 2020 sky told its spanish subscribers the service would end on 1 september, and that it would not be billing them for the weeks in between.
Sep 2020 Earbits — on 16 june 2014 earbits posted a farewell letter and switched the service off. a letter of intent arrived inside forty-eight hours and the ordinary ho
2 Sep 2020 Awok — awok sold electronics and household goods in the uae and saudi arabia at prices nobody else would match, and for a few years it was the largest thing
8 Sep 2020 Sputnik (Rostelecom) — rostelecom unveiled sputnik on 22 may 2014 at the st petersburg economic forum, a search engine paid for by the state and pitched as the safe place to
9 Sep 2020 Kotaku UK — a contract expired on a wednesday and a publication stopped existing. future had licensed the kotaku name from gawker in 2014 and staffed a british ed
10 Sep 2020 ToruCa — a hundred and ninety-two bytes was the whole card. docomo announced the format in september 2005 and shipped it that november with the first 902i hand
13 Sep 2020 Adobe Fuse — fuse built people out of a parts library. you chose a head and a body, dressed the result from a wardrobe, and pushed it to mixamo, which put a skelet
Sep 2020 Samsung Gear VR — samsung gear vr was a mobile vr headset built with oculus, launched to consumers in november 2015. you dropped a galaxy phone into the front and the p
Sep 2020 Mefeedia — there was no upload button, on purpose. mefeedia launched in 2004 as an index of video you reached by handing it a feed url, and by 2009 that had grow
16 Sep 2020 Panic Coda — coda was panic's all-in-one mac web-dev app, the one that bundled an editor with sftp and a terminal so the freelancer who wrote one-page html sites f
17 Sep 2020 Firefox Send — mozilla's encrypted file sharing tool. you uploaded a file up to 2.5 gb and got a link to send. the recipient downloaded once and the file was deleted
21 Sep 2020 LyricWiki — lyricwiki was a mediawiki pointed at one job, collecting the words to as many songs as people would type in. it started as a student project in 2006 a
28 Sep 2020 Tencent Weibo — tencent weibo launched april 2010 as tencent's microblogging answer to sina weibo, plugged directly into the qq messenger account base. by the second
28 Sep 2020 YouTube Community Contributions — for five years anyone watching a youtube video could write its subtitles and hand them to the uploader for approval, in any language, for nothing. it
28 Sep 2020 Groupon Japan — groupon japan was bought rather than built. a tokyo clone called qpod launched in june 2010 and groupon acquired it two months later, renaming it and
30 Sep 2020 Logitech Harmony Express — the harmony express was logitech's alexa-driven universal remote. you held a button, you said "watch netflix", a hub on the tv stand fired the right i
30 Sep 2020 NAVER Matome — naver matome was japan's curation layer, a site where ordinary readers gathered links and pictures about a topic into one page and took a cut of the a
30 Sep 2020 Samsung XR — the service was renamed samsung xr in early 2020 and was switched off before the year ended. it had launched on 30 december 2014 as milk vr, a free 36
Sep 2020 Addendum — dietrich mateschitz paid for three years of austrian investigative journalism and then stopped paying. the announcement came on 4 august 2020 and the
30 Sep 2020 ibisBrowser — three hundred and fifteen yen a month bought you a browser that did most of its work somewhere else. ibis ran a relay server that fetched the page and
1 Oct 2020 Adobe PhoneGap — phonegap let web developers wrap html, css and javascript in a native webview and ship it to ios and android as a real installable app. nitobi shipped
Oct 2020 Wanelo — a san francisco social shopping app named after want-need-love. affiliate links, no ads, no acquisition, no dramatic exit. instagram and pinterest put
Oct 2020 Curbed (city sites) — curbed was the real-estate blog that scaled itself into a network of city desks. new york first, then los angeles, san francisco, boston, atlanta, chi
Oct 2020 The Fancy — the fancy was a social shopping site where people collected pictures of objects they liked and could buy them without leaving the page. joseph einhorn
Oct 2020 DanishBits — a copyright lawyer named thomas heldrup signed up to danishbits as an ordinary member around 2016 and stayed four years, reading the staff threads and
14 Oct 2020 Touhou Cannonball — zun has made touhou games alone since 1996 and has never put voices in them. aniplex got permission, built a dice board game, and hired professional a
Oct 2020 The California Sunday Magazine — a sunday newspaper insert launched october 2014 by douglas mcgray and chas edwards, distributed inside the los angeles times and the new york times to
15 Oct 2020 Rakuten Deutschland — 5,500 german merchants were selling on rakuten.de at the end, against more than 300,000 on amazon.de. the site had begun life in 2007 as tradoria, a b
20 Oct 2020 uBlock Origin Extra — akamai bought certain assets of instart logic in february 2020 for $36.4 million, and by the autumn the request-disguising technology raymond hill had
24 Oct 2020 Tiddlyspot — dreamhost decided that the thousands of wikis on tiddlyspot were personal backups, which its terms of use forbid, and moved the lot into object storag
Oct 2020 Swift 3D — boulder, colorado, 4 april 2000: electric rain starts shipping swift 3d at a hundred and thirty-nine dollars, and for the next five years it is how a
28 Oct 2020 ペタ (Peta) — in august 2015 cyberagent announced it was retiring ペタ, the button that let you tell an ameba blogger you had been past without reading anything or sa
29 Oct 2020 Akatsuki no Breakers — cyberstep booked record revenue for the year ending may 2020 and closed this one anyway. it arrived on nintendo switch in july 2018, got to phones las
31 Oct 2020 Facebook Notes — facebook notes was the long-form text slot inside facebook. it shipped on august 22 2006 as a mini blogging platform with photo embeds, html-ish forma
31 Oct 2020 Unseen.is — reykjavik was most of the pitch. unseen sold encrypted mail and chat out of iceland in the years right after snowden, with 4096-bit keys in the market
Nov 2020 Growl — growl was a notification system for mac os x, written by christopher forsythe and a volunteer team from 2004 onward, and for most of a decade it was h
Nov 2020 WinWin — israel's biggest newspaper took its classifieds section off paper on 4 march 2007 and spent millions of shekels putting it on the web under a new bran
1 Nov 2020 Firefox Notes — eighteen thousand seven hundred and eighty people still have this installed. mozilla switched off the sync and pulled the android app on 1 november 20
2 Nov 2020 meTube — indonesia's largest broadcaster opened a video sharing site in 2016 and asked the country to upload itself into it. the interface was youtube's and th
9 Nov 2020 Crucible — amazon spent six years building a free-to-play hero shooter, launched it on 20 may 2020, pulled it back to closed beta on 30 june, and cancelled it on
10 Nov 2020 Will It Blend? — will it blend was a blender advertisement that people watched on purpose for fourteen years. tom dickson, who founded blendtec, stood in a lab coat an
Nov 2020 The Culling — xaviant put sixteen players on an island in march 2016 and for a few weeks it was one of the most played games on steam. then playerunknown's battlegr
13 Nov 2020 Qdaily — on 13 november 2020 it published for the last time and then simply stopped, and the domain has answered with a 502 ever since. yi xianfeng, who helped
14 Nov 2020 Quantopian — on 9 november 2020 quantopian told its community it had five days to copy out nine years of work. the boston company had given a decade of market data
15 Nov 2020 Best Gore — best gore was one of the post-rotten shock sites. mark marek ran it out of edmonton from april 2008. in june 2012 he posted the luka magnotta murder v
15 Nov 2020 Twitter Fabric — fabric was twitter's bid to matter to mobile developers. it launched in october 2014 around crashlytics, the crash reporter twitter had bought the yea
20 Nov 2020 Smashcast — smashcast was the brand that came out of the may 2017 merger between hitbox, the open-platform twitch competitor that launched in 2013, and azubu, the
22 Nov 2020 Cordless — discord banned marcel schramm's account on 22 november 2020 for a terms of service violation, which he traced to the way his program opened a private
24 Nov 2020 Fitlads — grindr took the traffic in 2009 and this thing kept running for another eleven years anyway, which is roughly how long a british forum habit can outli
30 Nov 2020 FRESH LIVE — tokyo, january 2016: cyberagent opened a live streaming service with 200 channels and called it amebafresh!. over the next 31 months it was passed bet
30 Nov 2020 Kidzworld — a vancouver company spent twenty one years running moderated chat for children, which is the least thankful job on the internet, and then posted a goo
30 Nov 2020 Chirpstory — toshiaki yoshida had a hit in japan and wanted one in english. chirpstory went live on 8 december 2010 as togetter's anglophone edition, three months
1 Dec 2020 Quibi — the streaming service that raised 1.75 billion dollars to put ten-minute hollywood shows on your phone vertically. jeffrey katzenberg ran it. meg whit
Dec 2020 VyRT — jared leto built vyrt in 2011 because streaming a thirty seconds to mars show meant handing it to a sponsor and accepting whatever player the sponsor
Dec 2020 Zumi — in poland's largest cities the aerial photos went down to ten centimeters a pixel, enough to make out houses and cars. onet opened zumi in april 2007
Dec 2020 Fooooo — the five o's stood for the five continents and the f stood for find, which tells you how big the ambition was for a japanese video search engine launc
Dec 2020 Encyclopedia ynet (אנציקלופדיה ynet) — in 2007 a paid hebrew encyclopedia decided the way to compete with a free one was to put the words knowledge with responsibility under its own logo. y
1 Dec 2020 OpenGrey — 700,000 bibliographic records of the european research output that no publisher ever put a price on: technical reports, doctoral theses, conference pa
1 Dec 2020 CNET Forums — red ventures bought cnet from viacomcbs for 484 million dollars and closed the deal on 30 october 2020. a month later the forums went read-only, and i
1 Dec 2020 Google Trusted Contacts — five minutes was the whole design. somebody on your approved list asked where you were, you had five minutes to say yes or no, and if you said nothing
3 Dec 2020 Google Play Music — google play music launched november 16, 2011 as a free cloud locker that would hold up to 50,000 of your own mp3s and stream them back to any device s
3 Dec 2020 Yo-kai Watch Medal Wars — two million pre-registrations and 492 days of life. netmarble gave notice on 31 july 2020 and stopped selling paid items the same afternoon, then took
9 Dec 2020 Nimbit — nimbit gave its artists three months of notice and one instruction: copy everything out yourself. four people in framingham, massachusetts had started
12 Dec 2020 Squad — squad was a mobile screen-sharing app from esther crawford and ethan sutin, the team that had previously built the failed faq app molly. it launched i
13 Dec 2020 The Colorado Independent — fourteen years of colorado statehouse reporting ended on 13 december 2020, with two posts published the same day saying the same thing in different wo
15 Dec 2020 Yahoo Groups — yahoo groups was a hybrid mailing list and web forum platform. you joined a group, you got every post by email, you could also read or search the arch
15 Dec 2020 Xinja — eric wilson founded xinja in 2017 as one of the first australian neobanks to chase a full ADI license. it got there in september 2019 and launched acc
17 Dec 2020 HBO Now — the second hbo streaming app. the one for people who did not have cable but wanted hbo on its own at $14.99 a month. launched april 7 2015 with the ga
18 Dec 2020 Caliphate — on 18 december 2020 the new york times attached a note to its own award winning podcast saying the episodes built on a canadian man's confession did n
20 Dec 2020 Ever, Jane — five hundred dollars a month was the number. that is what the servers and the licenses cost for a jane austen online world, and in december 2020 the s
21 Dec 2020 Questia — questia was for a demographic i was not part of. a chicago-founded paid online library from 1998, aimed at american college students writing citation-
21 Dec 2020 MihanBlog — mihanblog opened on 17 november 2004 and became one of the places persian speakers went to write in public, free, with no english anywhere in the inte
25 Dec 2020 Voat — voat launched in april 2014 as whoaverse, a hobby project by a swiss developer who thought reddit needed a freer alternative. it became known each tim
25 Dec 2020 Odakyu Virtual Railway Museum (小田急バーチャル鉄道博物館) — a tokyo commuter railway turned eighty in 2007 and marked it by modeling ten of its own trains in 3DCG and putting them on a website, opened on railwa
28 Dec 2020 J's GOAL — on 1 february 2015 the j.league folded its official fan site into a new corporate site and said it would delete the user data promptly, and nine month
31 Dec 2020 Albino Blacksheep — albino blacksheep launched in 1996 from toronto. steven lerner ran a personal flash portal that became one of the early-2000s viral video hubs on the
31 Dec 2020 Endomondo — endomondo was the run-tracker app people in europe defaulted to before strava took the gps-fitness audience worldwide. under armour paid 85 million do
31 Dec 2020 FarmVille — the facebook game that defined the social-gaming era. you planted a virtual crop, you waited a real-world timer, you came back to harvest. if you forg
31 Dec 2020 Flash games — the browser games that ran in school computer labs, in office break rooms, on home dial-up connections after dinner. miniclip, addictinggames, kongreg
31 Dec 2020 Adobe Flash — the plugin that ran the interactive web from 2000 to 2010. flash games, flash animation, flash banner ads, flash-based websites with intro animations.
2020 Stardoll — the swedish virtual paper-doll site that became the dominant fashion-coded community for tween girls in the late 2000s. it began as paperdoll heaven,
2020 TiVo (the cultural product) — the DVR that taught a generation of americans that you could pause live TV. launched march 1999. peak around 2006 with about 4 million subscribers. ca
31 Dec 2020 Smack Jeeves — smack jeeves launched in may 2005 in chadds ford, pennsylvania as a free webcomic host built and run single-handedly by daniel liebner. it hosted more
31 Dec 2020 Google Cloud Print — google cloud print was a 2010 google service that let any device send a print job through google's servers to any printer set up on a user's account.
31 Dec 2020 El Rey Network — el rey network was the english-language us cable channel that director robert rodriguez launched on 15 december 2013 with a minority stake from univis
2020 DVD Verdict — april 1999: a lawyer in chicago named sean mcginnis started a dvd review site and made the courtroom joke structural instead of decorative. the writer
31 Dec 2020 HEX: Shards of Fate — wizards of the coast sued in may 2014, settled in september 2015 on terms nobody has ever published, and five years later the game announced its own c
31 Dec 2020 fromAtoB — 1.5 million searches a month across fifty european rail and coach operators, and it still could not survive a year without travel. three graduates of
31 Dec 2020 Rinmaru Games — on 31 december 2020, hours after adobe flash stopped running, rinmarugames.com replaced its catalog with one painted picture: a woman on the deck of a
31 Dec 2020 USgamer — nine people worked there in early 2020 and four were left by november. reedpop cut the budget and gamer network shuttered its american site at the end

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2019 2go — 2go launched in 2007 out of johannesburg, built by computer science students at the university of the witwatersrand. it ran on j2me feature phones at
2019 Comic Genesis (Keenspace) — comic genesis was the free webcomic hosting platform keenspot launched in june 2000 as keenspace. it ran as the open-hosting layer under the invite-on
2019 Tea Party Community — ken crow founded tea party community in november 2012 with the selaty father-son team. the public site launched on february 2, 2013 as a facebook-styl
2019 Tout — michael downing launched tout in april 2010 around two patents he had developed at sri international. the pitch was a video-only twitter where every p
2019 Wonkblog — wonkblog started as ezra klein's policy blog inside the washington post in september 2011 and became a small newsroom of five by 2013. klein left in j
Jan 2019 Redbook (print) — redbook launched in chicago in may 1903 and ran 115 years across four owners: mccall corporation from 1929, norton simon then charter through the 1970
2019 Nimbuzz — nimbuzz was the app that promised to hold all your messengers at once, right when holding all your messengers stopped mattering. it arrived for the sm
1 Jan 2019 WebQQ — tencent put qq inside a browser tab in september 2009, for everybody who could not install anything: school computer rooms, and the enormous chinese i
2019 Weblogs.com — weblogs.com was the switchboard of the blog era and almost nobody who depended on it ever visited it. your publishing software sent it a ping when you
2019 ZipcodeZoo — it launched on 26 september 2004 with one goal, a web page for every living thing science had named, and it got most of the way there by refusing to g
2019 Field Trip — niantic's first product was not a game. field trip launched on android in the united states on 27 september 2012 and pushed cards at you about the bui
2019 Drip.fm — ten dollars a month, and a record label sent you everything it put out. ghostly international built the thing for its own catalog in 2012 and then ren
2019 TangoCity — buenos aires had a cable channel that played nothing but tango, founded by juan fabbri in 1995 and called sólo tango. it went off air in january 2011
2019 Fisher-Price Smart Toy — ninety-nine dollars bought a teddy bear that learned a child's name and favorite color and kept both of them on mattel's servers. a rapid7 researcher
2019 CogniToys Dino — three developers out of a new york app shop won ibm's watson mobile developer challenge in 2014 and cashed the prize in on a toy instead of an enterpr
2019 Biquge — four hundred thousand pirated novels on a single mirror, two point one billion clicks: those are the numbers a beijing court cited in 2025, six years
2019 Tapingo — grubhub announced it was buying tapingo on 25 september 2018 and had switched the app off within a year. what it bought was the order-ahead system on
2019 ScraperWiki — channel 4's venture arm put money into a liverpool startup in december 2009, on the theory that journalism needed scrapers more than it needed another
Jan 2019 Sorenson Squeeze — every web video team of the flash decade had a machine in the corner running batch jobs in squeeze overnight. sorenson media shipped it on 29 october
2019 Digital Universe — december 2005 was when the press release went out, and the phrase in it was the pbs of the web. joe firmage had made a fortune at usweb and lost the j
2019 SovArch.ru — denis romodin and alexander strugach put a catalog of soviet architecture on the russian web in january 2008, with nikolai kalashnikov credited beside
1 Jan 2019 Horseland — eight million accounts, most of them girls somewhere between ten and twenty two, spent two decades breeding and showing virtual horses on a site that
2019 YossarianLives — joseph heller supplied the name and the whole attitude. daniel foster-smith and j. paul neeley built a search engine that refused to give you what you
2019 Angry Birds Go! — 130 million people downloaded a free angry birds kart racer and most of the writing about it is about the upgrade counter. exient built it for rovio a
Jan 2019 ZCast — the last week of january 2019 is when the plug came out, and seven days later spotify announced it was buying anchor. zcast was an israeli app for bro
7 Jan 2019 Datex-P — the west german post office opened a packet network in august 1980 and it outlived almost everything ever built on top of it. compuserve came into ger
7 Jan 2019 Aapeli.com — finland had a browser game site that market research once placed second among young people's best known online brands, behind google and ahead of ever
7 Jan 2019 Daum Agora — in the summer of 2008 the candlelight crowds in seoul carried a flag naming agora as the holy ground of debate. that was a discussion board on the dau
7 Jan 2019 UOL Forums — the notice went up at the end of october 2018 and carried two dates. on 3 december the boards went read-only, and on 7 january 2019 around 18:00 utc t
8 Jan 2019 AOL Portfolios — aol portfolios was the personal stock-tracker inside the aol finance portal. you created named watchlists tagged with your buy prices and got back a d
11 Jan 2019 Chromecast Audio — a thirty-five dollar disc with a headphone jack on one side and a micro-usb port on the other. you pushed it into the back of whatever amplifier or po
11 Jan 2019 Zuji — sixteen airlines and travelocity went in together in 2002 to build the booking site asia did not have, and for most of that decade zuji was the one pe
15 Jan 2019 YouTube Video Annotations — annotations were clickable boxes drawn on top of a youtube video, shipped in june 2008 and switched off at 15:00 utc on 15 january 2019. they were the
15 Jan 2019 Osterhout Design Group — ralph osterhout spent twenty years building night vision for soldiers before he tried to sell augmented reality to everyone else. microsoft paid him a
15 Jan 2019 Yumeiro Cast — six weeks separated the third anniversary broadcast from the shutdown notice, which is the whole emotional arc of a live-service game compressed into
16 Jan 2019 Hyper.sh — on 21 december 2018 the hyper crew emailed its customers to say new signups were already closed and the platform would be deleted on 15 january. the f
17 Jan 2019 Do Not Track — do not track was one line your browser could attach to every request, saying you did not want to be followed around. nothing in the web made anyone re
17 Jan 2019 Little Noah — a cygames subsidiary spent its first title on a real-time strategy game for phones, then put the art director of final fantasy xii and the composer of
18 Jan 2019 Machinima — the gaming video empire that deleted itself. machinima started in 2000 as a community for machinima, films shot inside game engines, then became one o
21 Jan 2019 Munchery — munchery was the san francisco bay food story. you ordered a chef-made meal off an app by six pm and a refrigerated van or cyclist delivered it before
Jan 2019 High Fidelity — high fidelity was philip rosedale's second swing at the metaverse. founded 2013, $70 million across four rounds, an open-source vr stack with blockcha
22 Jan 2019 Adobe Story — adobe story was the screenwriting app inside the creative cloud subscription. fountain-style formatting in the browser plus metadata that flowed into
22 Jan 2019 Mozilla Test Pilot — the firefox program where mozilla shipped half-finished features to a hundred thousand opt-in users and watched what happened. it ran from may 2016 to
22 Jan 2019 Pagedraw — four points on hacker news the night it went up, and 343 five weeks later when a stranger resubmitted the same unchanged page. the notice underneath w
24 Jan 2019 xDedic — a russian-speaking marketplace that sold remote desktop access to servers whose owners had no idea they were for sale. in may 2016 it listed 70,624 of
24 Jan 2019 MP3Lizard — petteri pyyny turned it off on 24 january 2019 and wrote the notice himself, which is unusual for something nineteen years old. mp3lizard began in 200
28 Jan 2019 Yahoo! Japan Bulletin Board — twenty years of japanese web argument ended on a monday in january 2019, and the only part kept alive was the part about money. yahoo! japan opened th
30 Jan 2019 Wii Shop Channel — nintendo's downloadable storefront on the wii. opened with the console november 19 2006. you bought wii points with a credit card or a paper card from
30 Jan 2019 HTTP Public Key Pinning — after a dutch certificate authority was breached in 2011 and used to forge google certificates, the web wanted a way for a site to tell browsers which
Jan 2019 Demon Internet — demon internet is the reason a generation of britons got online without watching a meter. from june 1992 it offered the uk's first flat-rate home dial
31 Jan 2019 UOL Blogs — the first notice went up in april 2018 and gave everyone until 1 july. that date was then pushed back four separate times across the following eight m
31 Jan 2019 UOL Fotoblog — brazil had fotolog, which was free and enormous and died in 2016. uol had this, which came with your subscription and outlasted it by three years. fif
31 Jan 2019 Norton Core — it was shaped like a geodesic dome and designed to be left out in the open, because symantec's theory was that people would trust a router they could
1 Feb 2019 Bluefly — an off-price designer fashion site that launched in 1998 and refused to die for twenty years, outliving nearly every dot-com it started with. amazon a
1 Feb 2019 Chariot — chariot was a shuttle startup that ford bought for sixty-five million dollars in 2016, betting that a car company should also sell rides to people who
1 Feb 2019 Battlestar Galactica Online — a licensed 3d space combat mmo that ran inside a browser tab, built in oslo by artplant and published out of hamburg by bigpoint. you picked colonial
Feb 2019 Yokoku.in (予告.in) — on 11 june 2008 japan's internal affairs minister said the government would need several hundred million yen to build software that could detect crime
1 Feb 2019 Lesara — around a hundred million euros went into this one, from northzone and mangrove and vorwerk among others, and the last thirty million of it arrived in
1 Feb 2019 ZX Spectrum Vega+ — £513,000 from around 4,500 backers in early 2016, and roughly 400 handhelds ever reached anybody. retro computers ltd missed every delivery date it se
Feb 2019 Herotopia — the enemy in this one was called the bully bunch. herotainment built a flash world where children picked a superpower and went after a gang whose crim
4 Feb 2019 Marvel Avengers Academy — 4 february did a lot of work in this one. the game launched on that date in 2016, and on the same date two years later it tore out its own city-buildi
4 Feb 2019 Google+ Comments on Blogger — switching your blogspot comments to google+ in 2013 looked like a free upgrade. five days of notice in january 2019 ended it, the widget came out of b
5 Feb 2019 Cryptocat — cryptocat launched may 19, 2011 as a browser-extension encrypted chat written in javascript by nadim kobeissi out of montreal. it spiked into mainstre
Feb 2019 BharatStudent — a company in hyderabad called northgate technologies built a social network for indian students in 2007 and it worked for a while: bharatstudent was r
12 Feb 2019 iPass — ipass started in january 1996 selling a single idea: one account and one client program that let a company's travelers get online in any country and h
13 Feb 2019 Microsoft DreamSpark / Imagine — every computer science student between 2008 and 2017 had a DreamSpark login. bill gates announced it at stanford in february 2008, free visual studio,
13 Feb 2019 RockYou — rockyou made the widgets that covered myspace and then facebook, super wall and glitter text among them, and for a while in 2007 it was the biggest ap
14 Feb 2019 Ooyala — ooyala was the plumbing behind other people's video players. broadcasters and publishers paid it to host and measure their video, and if it worked you
15 Feb 2019 Atlassian Stride — stride was atlassian's rebuild-from-scratch answer to slack, the supposed future of team chat at the company that already owned hipchat. it launched i
15 Feb 2019 HipChat — hipchat was a chat room with green check marks for engineers, then a brand atlassian bought, then a brand atlassian replaced, then a brand atlassian s
15 Feb 2019 ARKive — christopher parsons ran the bbc natural history unit and wanted one permanent record of every animal on the red list before the film stock aged out. h
21 Feb 2019 Onavo — onavo was the israeli mobile analytics company that facebook bought in october 2013 and used to watch what competing apps were doing for the next five
25 Feb 2019 Facebook Moments — facebook moments was the standalone photo app facebook shipped on june 15 2015. it ran facial recognition on your camera roll, grouped photos by which
28 Feb 2019 Microsoft Wallet — microsoft wallet was a contactless payment app for windows 10 mobile, a phone platform that had almost nobody on it. it launched on june 21 2016 for i
28 Feb 2019 WWE Immortals — warner bros took the injustice: gods among us mobile game, pulled batman out of it and put the undertaker in, then let the concept artists go as far a
28 Feb 2019 Magine TV — television rights are sold one country at a time, and magine spent six years finding out what that costs. stockholm, 2013, a cloud tv service with a w
28 Feb 2019 IBM Watson Workspace — the memo said the product was innovative and agile, and that it had not resonated with clients. ibm announced the end on 16 january 2019 and switched
1 Mar 2019 Amazon Dash Button — amazon's five-dollar reorder button. it shipped the year of the first echo and died the year alexa got reorder built in. germany ruled it illegal for
1 Mar 2019 PlayStation Vita — the vita was sony's bet that you could still sell a dedicated three-hundred-dollar handheld in the year of the iphone 4s. it shipped with a 5-inch ole
Mar 2019 Google Pinyin — four days after it shipped in april 2007, users found sogou's dictionary sitting inside google's one, and google china admitted it had used "non-googl
Mar 2019 Pararea — the parent company was called metaverse four years before facebook changed its name. 超元域 (beijing) technology built pararea, a free social vr platform
1 Mar 2019 Listbox — fastmail bought listbox in november 2015 and took three years to decide it did not want to be in the newsletter business. the discussion-list half was
4 Mar 2019 Jibo — the home social robot that announced its own death. jibo was a swiveling white robot about the size of a desk lamp, with a single round face-screen an
5 Mar 2019 Bullet Messenger — bullet messenger, later renamed liaotianbao, was a chinese chat app that luo yonghao of smartisan launched in august 2018 to take a run at wechat. it
6 Mar 2019 Ace of Spades — ben aksoy put a free voxel shooter online in april 2011, terrain you could dig through and rifles pointed at other people digging. two and a half mill
12 Mar 2019 Keecker — pierre lebeau left a product manager job at google in 2012 to build a robot that followed you from room to room and projected films onto the ceiling.
13 Mar 2019 Google Spotlight Stories — spotlight stories was google's in-house immersive-film studio inside the advanced technologies and projects group. jan pinkava founded it at motorola
14 Mar 2019 Google Allo — google allo launched in september 2016 as the smart messenger that would make google assistant feel like a person you texted with. ten million people
14 Mar 2019 Google Image Charts — you made a chart by writing a url. size, type and the numbers themselves all went into the query string, and a google server sent back a png you could
18 Mar 2019 Panda TV — panda tv opened on 21 september 2015 as wang sicong's answer to twitch, funded out of a chinese property fortune and stocked with streamers signed awa
20 Mar 2019 dailymile — the homepage is still up, and it still says the same four lines: dailymile has shutdown, thanks to all who were a part of our global community of athl
20 Mar 2019 21st Century Fox — 71.3 billion dollars, arrived at after comcast spent six days forcing the price up by nearly twenty. the thing being bought was a holding company murd
25 Mar 2019 Drawn to Death — jaffe made god of war and twisted metal, then left sony to start his own studio and came back with a four player arena shooter drawn to look like a bo
27 Mar 2019 Hatena Haiku — microblogging had a fork in it around 2007 and almost nobody remembers there was a choice. twitter said a post belongs to a person and you follow peop
27 Mar 2019 Ganfyd — only a registered medical practitioner was allowed to edit it, and 449 of them did, across six countries. a server failed on 27 march 2019 in a way th
28 Mar 2019 Yahoo! Japan Bookstore — on 11 march 2019 every product page in yahoo! japan's bookstore started redirecting to a different shop, and three weeks later the store itself closed
28 Mar 2019 Sailor Moon Drops — three million downloads across three and a half years was not enough to keep a match-three puzzle alive on one of the most recognizable licenses in an
29 Mar 2019 Apple AirPower — airpower was a wireless charging mat with around twenty coils that apple showed off on stage at the iphone x event and then could not actually build.
29 Mar 2019 DJMax Technika Q — neowiz pulled a rhythm game off both app stores on 28 february 2019 and switched off its servers a month later. technika q was the phone version of a
30 Mar 2019 CiteULike — citeulike let you save a paper's citation straight off the journal page and tag it, then look at who else had saved the same thing. richard cameron bu
31 Mar 2019 Yahoo GeoCities Japan — yahoo geocities japan launched september 1997 under yahoo japan, three years after the original us geocities and one year before yahoo bought the pare
31 Mar 2019 Iris by Lowe's — a home-depot-shaped retailer decided the connected home was a next-decade category and launched a hub of its own two years before amazon put a microph
31 Mar 2019 Red Room (Akai Heya) — a free geocities japan homepage called the contents of the refrigerator, run by a flash author known as o-toro, held one of the most-forwarded horror
31 Mar 2019 KidsClick — seventy-five million american households could pick up kidsclick on the day it launched in july 2017. sinclair built it with toon goggles and mgm dist
31 Mar 2019 Context.IO — bruno morency started with a gmail extension for finding attachments and turned it into the thing developers actually wanted, which was an http api th
Apr 2019 Microsoft Hover! — the bumper-car capture-the-flag game microsoft bundled on the windows 95 cd-rom edition to justify the new disc format. three maze worlds, a red hover
1 Apr 2019 Bragi Dash — bragi was a danish-german hardware startup founded by nikolaj hviid in 2013. the dash launched on kickstarter in february 2014 and hit its $260,000 go
Apr 2019 TVCatchup — tvcatchup streamed around fifty free-to-air british channels live into a browser, for nothing, to anyone with a uk ip address. its entire legal existe
1 Apr 2019 News Deeply — lara setrakian had reported the middle east for abc news and bloomberg and came away convinced that the problem with crisis coverage was that it arriv
1 Apr 2019 Tictail — shopify paid a reported fifteen to twenty million dollars in november 2018 for a swedish company that had raised thirty-three, took the team, and clos
1 Apr 2019 Roodo — on 1 october 2003 a taiwanese auction site called 當舖網 changed its name to 樂多, and fifteen years later everything carrying that name went read-only and
Apr 2019 YotaPhone — fifty million dollars bought a phone with a screen on each side, one of them electronic paper that kept showing you things after the battery died. it
Apr 2019 PlayDota — a server error that nobody came back to fix. playdota opened in may 2009 when icefrog moved the official dota community off a domain that had ended up
1 Apr 2019 Spezify — stockholm, 2009. two swedes built a search engine that threw its results onto a canvas as pictures and tweets rather than stacking them in a ranked co
2 Apr 2019 Google+ — Google's serious attempt at a Facebook competitor. circles were the new feature. hangouts was bundled in. it had 500 million accounts on paper, and al
2 Apr 2019 Inbox by Gmail — inbox by gmail was google's redesign of email around bundles and snooze. it launched in october 2014 as invitation-only, opened to the public in may 2
2 Apr 2019 Hacking Team — a hacker calling himself phineas fisher took over the company's twitter account on 5 july 2015 and posted a torrent of four hundred gigabytes pulled s
4 Apr 2019 Yahoo Squirrel / Yahoo Together — squirrel was an invite-only group messaging app yahoo opened in closed beta on may 8, 2018, two months before pulling the plug on yahoo messenger itse
4 Apr 2019 alaMaula — four men in cordoba built a free classifieds site at the end of 2009 and sold it to ebay inside two years. alamaula was the door ebay walked through t
8 Apr 2019 QuadrigaCX — quadrigacx was the canadian bitcoin exchange whose ceo gerald cotten died on a honeymoon trip to india in december 2018 and apparently took every cold
8 Apr 2019 Orcs Must Die! Unchained — patrick hudson, the ceo of robot entertainment, opened the closing letter with the words it's painful to even write this. unchained was the free-to-pl
8 Apr 2019 MangaX — ten minutes and twenty-six seconds separate the last two posts on magia inc.'s website. the first announces that rakshasa street volume two has gone o
9 Apr 2019 Adobe Shockwave Player — shockwave was the heavier cousin of flash. you needed it for certain web games and certain interactive sites that required a real 3d runtime. by 2019
9 Apr 2019 Shockwave.com — the game portal that ran on the shockwave plugin, the older sibling of flash. launched by macromedia in 1999. peak 22 million users by 2005. it hosted
9 Apr 2019 Opera Turbo — https killed it, quietly and without a notice. opera turbo sent your page requests through opera's own servers, which fetched everything, recompressed
9 Apr 2019 Microsoft Notification Protocol — 1999 to 2019, and almost nobody who spent those years inside it ever saw its name. msnp was the line-based text protocol that msn messenger spoke to m
10 Apr 2019 Sola — the app had three names in five years and the first one was the good one. launched in november 2014 as plague, where a post you made spread to the fou
11 Apr 2019 Google Cloud Messaging — announced at google i/o on 27 june 2012 as the replacement for android's c2dm service, gcm was the thing that actually delivered your notifications fo
12 Apr 2019 Noddle — four million british people had a free look at their own credit file because callcredit decided in 2011 that charging for it was the worse business. n
15 Apr 2019 Cybozu Live — on 19 december 2013, one day after yahoo! japan announced it was closing its group service, cybozu raised the free tier of cybozu live from two hundre
17 Apr 2019 Chitika — a contextual ad network out of massachusetts that ran for 16 years serving text ads to the long tail of the blog web. bloggers who could not get into
17 Apr 2019 Jet Airways — a consortium of indian banks turned down an emergency loan on 17 april 2019 and jet airways stopped flying that night, with the last aircraft coming i
22 Apr 2019 Couple — couple launched in march 2012 as pair, out of y combinator, and it was a messenger that only worked between two people. a hundred thousand users signe
23 Apr 2019 Laundroid — a machine the size of a refrigerator needed five to ten minutes to fold one t-shirt, and that was the demo. seven dreamers showed it in tokyo in octob
24 Apr 2019 Daum Storyfunding — in september 2014 a korean portal started letting readers pay journalists for stories that no newsroom had commissioned. newsfunding took in 2.5 billi
2019 LucyPhone — six million minutes on hold by 2013, every one of them served by a robot so that a person did not have to. two brothers in richmond, virginia built it
25 Apr 2019 Final Fantasy Grandmasters — forty-seven days and eighteen hours is how long final fantasy grandmasters spent switched off while it was still a live service. somebody reached the
26 Apr 2019 Sinemia — sinemia launched in 2014 in turkey as a subscription movie ticket service and expanded internationally over the next four years. it ran cheaper plans
28 Apr 2019 friends.nico — japan had three large mastodon servers by the end of april 2017 and dwango's was the last of them to open, on the 19th. it peaked at 66,405 accounts a
29 Apr 2019 Anki — three carnegie mellon robotics phds founded anki in 2010 and raised about 182 million dollars to build cute home robots. they shipped overdrive (a pho
29 Apr 2019 Anki Cozmo — a small robot with treads and a little animated face, made by a startup that hired pixar and dreamworks animators to give it a personality. cozmo used
29 Apr 2019 Blox.pl — warsaw, march 2004: agora, the publisher of gazeta wyborcza, opens a blog host inside its gazeta.pl portal. by the middle of 2006 blox held more than
30 Apr 2019 Dream Market — dream lasted five and a half years, which for a market of this kind is an absurd number. silk road managed two and a half, alphabay under three. it su
30 Apr 2019 Disney Digital Network — nobody ever signed up for disney digital network. it was the box disney put its internet acquisitions in on 2 may 2017, holding maker studios and the
May 2019 MiGente.com — migente sat in the community connect portfolio next to blackplanet and asianavenue, three ethnically-focused social networks built before the facebook
1 May 2019 Global Wrestling Network — anthem launched gwn on 10 october 2017 as an alternative to the wwe network, at $7.99 a month, with the impact tape library and a pile of independent
1 May 2019 Brigade — san francisco spent five years and about nine million dollars of sean parker's money on an app for arguing about politics with strangers who could be
1 May 2019 99.se — three editors ran scandinavia's oldest apple forum, and in the spring of 2019 the parent company looked at the numbers and decided it had never once p
May 2019 Thud — two million dollars of elon musk's money hired the editor in chief and the managing editor of the onion away from chicago. what came back was a fake d
7 May 2019 DeepDotWeb — deepdotweb sat on the ordinary web, indexed by google, and told you which darknet markets were up and how to reach them. it ran for five and a half ye
7 May 2019 Utrip — a 94-page acquisition agreement was two days from signing when an oversight board inside the buyer declined to approve it, and utrip was out of money
8 May 2019 RSSOwl — benjamin pasero started writing a feed reader in java in 2003 and kept it alive for a decade, including a full rewrite onto the eclipse rich client pl
9 May 2019 au Travel (auトラベル) — the travel agency behind au's official travel site was never au. one government registration number, number 982, sat behind the storefront for its who
13 May 2019 Age of Empires: Castle Siege — 17 september 2014: microsoft put the age of empires name on a free-to-play castle builder and launched it, of all places, on windows 8.1 and windows p
15 May 2019 Cryptopia — a christchurch altcoin exchange that peaked at 1.4 million users and listed roughly 900 different coins. hacked in january 2019 for around nz$24 milli
15 May 2019 Excelsior JET — a company in novosibirsk spent nineteen years selling the one thing java desktop developers actually wanted, which was a way to ship an application as
15 May 2019 İlkposta — on 8 april 2019 a blogger page nobody was reading carried the notice. mail service would stop on 15 may and every account would be deleted a month aft
16 May 2019 Direct (Instagram standalone app) — instagram built a second app that opened straight into the camera, so you could message people without ever seeing the feed. it was never released eve
16 May 2019 Waffle.io — broadcom finished buying ca technologies in november 2018. ca had bought rally software in 2015, and rally had built waffle.io as an accelerator proje
16 May 2019 Formation Girls — yahoo! japan's game portal carried it from 8 july 2016, a browser game in which second world war fighters were flown by girls named after the aces who
20 May 2019 BeeTalk — beetalk was garena's attempt to own chat in southeast asia, launched out of singapore in 2013 with a shake-the-phone feature borrowed from wechat and
21 May 2019 Antergos — alexandre filgueira released cinnarch in may 2012 as an arch linux derivative for the cinnamon desktop, then renamed and expanded it to antergos in 20
22 May 2019 Niconico Matome — a company called evaluni ran a way to read a niconico video instead of watching it, and it lasted not quite eighteen months. you pulled still frames o
24 May 2019 HomeShop18 — network18 launched india's first round-the-clock television shopping channel on 9 april 2008 and built a website and later an app behind it, but the c
28 May 2019 Texture — texture was the netflix-for-magazines that condé nast, hearst, meredith, news corp, time inc and rogers media built together as next issue media in 20
May 2019 Leap Motion — leap motion built a small usb hand-tracker that the demos always made look like the future. holz had started the optics in 2008. the controller shippe
30 May 2019 YouTube Gaming — youtube announced a gaming app at e3 in june 2015 and shipped it that august, in the us and uk first, with a page for each of twenty-five thousand gam
31 May 2019 BlackBerry Messenger — the messenger that came with every blackberry. for a few years, around 2009 to 2012, having a BBM PIN to share was a corporate status symbol. read rec
31 May 2019 Tetris Friends — honolulu, january 2006: the people who own tetris set up tetris online, inc. to be the official game on the internet, and tetrisfriends.com was the re
31 May 2019 DVD-RAM — the notice that ended it is one page on panasonic.jp, and the useful part is the product list: two cartridge models and three bare ones. that was the
31 May 2019 Soul Reverse Zero — sega built a two-game franchise and shipped the prequel first. the phone game opened on 21 november 2016, the arcade flagship arrived fifteen months a
Jun 2019 Serif PagePlus — serif wrote pageplus in nottingham in 1990 and sold it for under a hundred pounds, at a moment when the professional alternative cost about as much as
Jun 2019 Peel Smart Remote — a hundred and twenty million registered users and a hundred billion remote commands, and almost nobody chose to install it. peel came preloaded on sam
Jun 2019 TouchDevelop — microsoft research asked whether you could write a working program on a phone using only your thumbs, and then spent eight years answering yes. touchd
Jun 2019 InterGalactic Medicine Show — orson scott card started a webzine in 2005 to buy short science fiction at professional rates, named it after a throwaway line in one of his own books
Jun 2019 Hater — brendan alper left goldman sachs to write comedy and hater started as one of the bits. the app showed you a card with something on it, you swiped in o
Jun 2019 KidsCom — a milwaukee company called circle 1 network put a site for eight to fourteen year olds online in february 1995, when there was almost nothing else on
Jun 2019 PaigeeWorld — $3,500 a month was the number it could not reach. a million registered users, twenty million drawings, 150,000 people still logging in monthly, and a
Jun 2019 Stringify — comcast bought an automation app in 2017 and spent two years working out that it did not want to run one. stringify let you draw a whole flow across y
1 Jun 2019 Mediaset Premium — italy got a second pay-tv platform in january 2005 and it did not need a dish. you bought a card, slotted it into a decoder and watched serie a throug
5 Jun 2019 LemonStand — mailchimp and shopify broke up in public in march 2019, and the week before that happened mailchimp had quietly taken the team behind a small shopify
6 Jun 2019 Facebook Graph Search — facebook announced graph search on 15 january 2013 and called it a third pillar of the site. you typed a sentence at it, photos of my friends taken in
2019 MyLifeIsAverage — two million stories went into mylifeisaverage and not one of them was about anything. that was the entire specification. guru khalsa and enrico mills
6 Jun 2019 Ghostbin — 644,000 pastes were sitting on ghostbin at the end of 2018, which is when dustin howett told people the site would either close or change beyond recog
12 Jun 2019 Facepunch Forums — garry newman started a forum in 2004, around the time he started the mod that made his name, and he spent the last year of its life saying out loud th
14 Jun 2019 Nuntii Latini — finland, september 1989: the national broadcaster starts reading the week's world news in classical latin, five minutes at a time. it ran for thirty y
17 Jun 2019 Tekuteku Tekuteku (テクテクテクテク) — 地図塗りRPG, map-painting RPG, is the genre label dwango printed on this one game. you walked, the blocks you walked through took your color, and the thin
19 Jun 2019 Carrot Rewards — a government bought behavior change from a startup and paid for it in loyalty points people already collected. it worked well enough to reach 1.1 mill
19 Jun 2019 SpiderNode — 702 commits landed on mozilla's spidernode in the first three months of 2017 and then the graph went flat. it was node.js rebuilt on spidermonkey, the
19 Jun 2019 Comodo IceDragon — comodo shipped a firefox fork for seven years and then simply stopped. version 65.0.2.15 went up on the company forum in june 2019 and nothing followe
21 Jun 2019 Ruuh — two million people in india talked to her, and the conversation count passed 150 million before microsoft switched her off. ruuh arrived on facebook m
24 Jun 2019 Amazon Restaurants — amazon launched restaurants in seattle in september 2015 as a perk for prime now subscribers. it pushed into about twenty us metros plus london over t
Jun 2019 Paye ta shnek — anaïs bourdet was a graphic designer in marseille who opened a tumblr in 2012 and started posting, word for word and with nothing added, what men said
24 Jun 2019 ReDigi — capitol records sued redigi in january 2012, three months after it opened. the company had built a marketplace for reselling digital music you had leg
25 Jun 2019 OUYA — ouya was the kickstarter darling of 2012, a 99-dollar android microconsole that promised to break the console oligopoly. it raised 8.6 million dollars
25 Jun 2019 Drive.ai — frisco, texas got the first self-driving passenger service in the united states that any member of the public could ride, in may 2018, and the vans we
25 Jun 2019 NRATV — an oklahoma city advertising agency called ackerman mcqueen built and ran the national rifle association's television channel, and when the two of the
25 Jun 2019 Minecraft: Story Mode — about twenty five people were still at telltale after the september 2018 layoffs, and one of the jobs they stayed on to finish was the netflix version
27 Jun 2019 Koinex — on 27 june 2019, at two in the afternoon india time, koinex stopped trading. it had been the country's largest digital asset exchange, with over a mil
27 Jun 2019 Kamen Rider Battle Rush — bandai namco contracted a licensed hero game out to a listed tokyo developer with no tokusatsu history, and it cleared a million downloads inside thre
28 Jun 2019 Atlas Reactor — twenty seconds was how long each player had to lock in a move, and then all eight moves resolved at once. trion worlds released atlas reactor on 4 oct
28 Jun 2019 Readyyy! — one hundred and forty seven days. sega announced the project in december 2017, cut 250 auditionees down to eighteen voice actors, ran a radio show for
28 Jun 2019 DLsite レンタル (DLsite Rental) — eisys, the company behind dlsite and at the time a wholly owned subsidiary of the japanese rental chain geo, spent 2017 grafting a rental counter onto
30 Jun 2019 Yahoo View — yahoo view was the place hulu sent its free tier to die in public. it streamed the last five episodes of network shows for a US-only audience for almo
30 Jun 2019 Amazon Storywriter — amazon storywriter was a free cloud screenwriting app amazon released in 2015 as part of the amazon studios pitch pipeline. it handled the master scen
30 Jun 2019 BT MyDonate — bt built a donations platform in 2011 and took no commission on it, which in british fundraising was the entire point, because everybody else was keep
30 Jun 2019 WatchESPN — the first screen was not a game, it was a list of pay-tv providers. authentication was the product: espn had promised the cable industry that streamin
30 Jun 2019 Engrade — a high school student wrote a gradebook in 2003 because the one his school used was bad, gave it away free, and watched teachers adopt it district by
Jul 2019 ThinkGeek — thinkgeek launched august 13, 1999 out of virginia, founded by willie vadnais, jen frazier, jon sime, and scott smith as the e-commerce arm of geeknet
1 Jul 2019 Back to My Mac — apple shipped it with leopard in october 2007 as the feature that made two macs on two different networks behave like they were sitting on the same on
Jul 2019 Kylo — a browser for the couch, with buttons sized to be read from across a room and a $99 pointing mouse sold beside it. kylo shipped on 19 march 2010 and h
1 Jul 2019 Proximus Skynet — belgacom started an internet arm in 1995 and named it after the machine that starts the war in the terminator films, and nobody inside the company sto
Jul 2019 Szortal — four people started a polish portal for very short fantasy fiction in 2011, and a year later added a free monthly that ran to sixty-seven numbered iss
Jul 2019 Sanalpazar — three percent seller commission and twelve installments at the cash price was the whole pitch, aimed straight at gittigidiyor. gold internet teknoloji
Jul 2019 Ambrosia Software — rochester, new york, a year out of RIT, and andrew welch turned an asteroids remake he had written for the mac into a company. ambrosia sold shareware
Jul 2019 WebCite — over two hundred scholarly journals were routing their cited links through webcitation.org by 2008, which is as close to famous as this piece of acade
Jul 2019 reegle — vienna ran a search engine for clean energy for thirteen years and then replaced it with a frameset. reegle indexed the renewable energy and efficienc
1 Jul 2019 LISWiki — john hubbard registered liswiki.org in june 2005, installed mediawiki on it and told other librarians it was there. fourteen years later he turned it
Jul 2019 Hello Barbie — seventy five dollars bought a barbie with a microphone in her necklace and a wifi chip in her back. you held the belt buckle, the doll recorded you, a
11 Jul 2019 Code of Joker — six years to the day, and thursday to thursday as well: the cabinets came on 11 july 2013 and went off at 27:59 on 11 july 2019. sega published a fare
15 Jul 2019 Peerio — vincent drouin built peerio in montreal in 2014, with cryptocat's nadim kobeissi alongside him, as a messenger and file locker where the encryption ha
16 Jul 2019 Surfingbird — march 2011, two engineers out of mail.ru's blogs team put up a russian answer to stumbleupon: press the button, get one page chosen for you, rate it,
17 Jul 2019 Google Dragonfly — google spent two years building an android search app for china that would quietly remove results about human rights and peaceful protest, tie every q
18 Jul 2019 Dogster & Catster — dogster launched in january 2004 as a social network for dogs, or really for the people who wanted a profile page for them. ted rheingold built it in
18 Jul 2019 Amazon China — amazon did not enter china by building. it bought joyo.com in 2004 for seventy-five million dollars, the biggest online bookseller in the country at t
18 Jul 2019 PullString — two pixar veterans spent eight years building a tool for writing characters that answer back, and apple bought the team in february 2019. the free tie
19 Jul 2019 Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan: Mousou Bousou Psi Kick Battle — a flash animation house in tokyo licensed one of the better-selling comedy manga in japan and handed the work to a development studio it owned in okin
21 Jul 2019 Red Karaoke — red karaoke let anyone sing into a browser and a microphone and keep the recording, twelve years before that was a normal thing to do. it reached four
26 Jul 2019 Hatena Diary — hatena diary was the flagship blogging service of hatena co, kyoto's reply to livejournal and movable type. it launched out of beta on march 13 2003 a
26 Jul 2019 Worlds Adrift — worlds adrift was a physics sandbox mmo set on floating islands, where you scavenged wrecks for parts and welded your own airship out of them. it was
Jul 2019 Cartoon Doll Emporium — seventy million visits a year went through a site whose entire purpose was letting eleven year old girls put outfits on a drawing. it sold in 2009 for
30 Jul 2019 Digimon Links — bandai namco put a digimon raising game on phones in march 2016 and ran it in two languages, linkz in japan and links everywhere else. both halves sto
31 Jul 2019 UltraViolet — ultraviolet was a digital movie locker run by a consortium of hollywood studios. you redeemed a printed code from inside a blu-ray case and the movie
31 Jul 2019 Rabb.it — rabb.it let strangers and friends share a virtual browser and watch the same video together with voice and webcam in the corner. it peaked at around 3
31 Jul 2019 Battle Girl High School — on 31 may 2019 colopl published two things on the same day: notice that the game would close, and the final story chapter, which was titled graduation
1 Aug 2019 Google Hangouts on Air — hangouts on air was the thing the white house used to do president obama town halls inside a chat window. it was also the thing every solo creator use
Aug 2019 Viewster — a zurich company spent twelve years building the thing everybody says they want, a legal streaming service that costs nothing and does not ask who you
2019 Tomnod — eight million people signed on in march 2014 to look for a missing airplane one satellite tile at a time, and the servers gave out at a hundred thousa
1 Aug 2019 Handy (Tink Labs) — terence kwok dropped out of school in chicago and spent the next seven years giving away phones in hotel rooms. at the end of 2018 handy sat in 600,00
3 Aug 2019 Green Recorder — one person maintained it, unpaid, for two and a half years. mohammed hanny sabbagh wrote the first linux desktop recorder that could capture a wayland
5 Aug 2019 Google Trips — google trips was a mobile app that turned the reservation emails in your gmail into a day-by-day trip itinerary, with offline maps and city guides for
5 Aug 2019 Kwesé Sports — strive masiyiwa announced kwese in december 2015 and spent four years buying the rights africa was already watching on somebody else's satellite. prem
5 Aug 2019 MapR — the warn notice came first. on 13 may 2019 john schroeder told his staff and the state of california that mapr would close and lay off 122 people by 1
6 Aug 2019 Vreal — seattle, 2015: a company bet that watching other people play games would move into the headset. vreal streamed the entire 3d scene rather than a flat
6 Aug 2019 Pastel Memories — players asked coreedge for an offline version. what they got instead was the whole main quest typed out as a sixteen-part transcript on a games magazi
7 Aug 2019 Linux Journal — linux journal launched in march 1994 with a cover-story interview with linus torvalds, founded by phil hughes and bob young as the first magazine devo
15 Aug 2019 niconare — seven weeks after dwango finished rebuilding it, dwango announced it was closing it. niconare was a slide host with niconico comments flying over the
16 Aug 2019 Pacific Standard — pacific standard was a santa barbara nonprofit longform magazine funded by sara miller mccune of sage publishing. it launched in 2008 as miller-mccune
16 Aug 2019 GPSies.com — alltrails announced on 30 july 2019 that it had bought gpsies, and inside three weeks the german site was gone and its members were logging in somewhe
19 Aug 2019 PledgeMusic — fans paid a year ahead for records that did not exist yet, and the money went into the company bank account rather than a segregated one. when the vol
20 Aug 2019 In.com — mumbai, august 2008: web18 put an entire portal behind a two-letter domain, and by the september comscore numbers in.com was the second most visited s
23 Aug 2019 Wikilivres — new zealand lets copyright expire fifty years after the author dies. the united states does not, and wikilivres existed inside that gap. yann forget s
26 Aug 2019 Weekly Shonen Jump: Jikkyou Janjan Stadium — on 3 july 2019 konami put up a notice saying the game would stop at three in the afternoon on 26 august, citing circumstances and nothing more specifi
28 Aug 2019 Skepticality — derek colanduno and robynn mccarthy built an audio magazine about skepticism in 2005, a year before skeptic magazine adopted it as the official podcas
30 Aug 2019 TNTVillage — a million users, said the publishers' association when it sued. the site's own counter said 610,000, and its statute said nothing newer than twelve mo
30 Aug 2019 Logres — adobe's decision to stop supporting flash player at the end of 2020 killed this one more than a year ahead of the deadline. marvelous closed the brows
30 Aug 2019 L-boom (エルブーム) — a novel site with drama cds and a web radio show, which makes no sense until you look at the parent company and find a voice-acting school attached to
31 Aug 2019 kizasi — the slogan was: from blogs, know the topic, find the sign. kizasi.jp read about 250,000 japanese blog entries every day and ran a time-series co-occur
Sep 2019 ESPN The Magazine — disney-espn's answer to sports illustrated. first issue shipped 11 march 1998 with a foldout cover of kobe bryant, alex rodriguez, kordell stewart plu
Sep 2019 Distribber — distribber sold independent filmmakers a way onto itunes and the other video stores for one upfront fee instead of a permanent cut of the takings. you
1 Sep 2019 POPLINE — popline was the reproductive health literature database, more than 370,000 records reaching back to 1827, run out of johns hopkins on usaid money from
Sep 2019 BluWiki — in november 2008 apple's lawyers told a one-man wiki host that a page about how ipods talk to itunes was a copyright violation, and the pages came dow
3 Sep 2019 Android Beam — android beam let you put two phones back to back and push whatever was on the screen across, using nfc for the handshake and bluetooth or wifi for the
4 Sep 2019 Jeremy Renner Official — jeremy renner official was one of a long production line of single-celebrity apps built by a company called escapex, which ran the same software under
5 Sep 2019 ThinkProgress — judd legum started thinkprogress inside the center for american progress action fund in 2005, and for a decade it was one of the largest political new
7 Sep 2019 Microsoft Zo — zo was tay's replacement and tay's opposite. where tay learned to post racist tweets in sixteen hours, zo was tuned to refuse to talk about politics o
9 Sep 2019 Daqri — daqri sold a $9,000 ar helmet to industrial customers and burned $275m trying to make the unit economics work. the demos were always impressive. the b
9 Sep 2019 TinyPic — tinypic was the no-account image host you used because nothing else was simpler. you uploaded a file and copied the [img] tag straight into your forum
13 Sep 2019 Human Headphones — twenty-four days after the headphones reached the public, the board handed the company to a receiver and laid off twenty-five of its thirty staff. hum
14 Sep 2019 MoviePass — moviepass launched in 2011 as a moderate monthly pass priced like one or two movie tickets. in august 2017 helios and matheson bought it and dropped t
18 Sep 2019 Lyrebird — three doctoral students at a montreal machine learning lab worked out how to copy a person's voice from one minute of recorded audio, and in april 201
19 Sep 2019 Kiwibox — three carnegie mellon graduates built a site in 1999 so that american teenagers would have somewhere to write, and it was still running twenty years l
19 Sep 2019 Find My Friends — find my friends was apple's app for watching where your contacts were. it arrived on 12 october 2011, a few hours ahead of ios 5, and for its first fo
22 Sep 2019 DeBuzzer (דה באזר) — on 22 september 2019 ronen dorfan posted a note titled moving house, stay with us, and an israeli sports site that had spent nine years building an ad
23 Sep 2019 Qingwen — zhu zhouyi ran acfun, china's first danmaku video site, then left in 2015 with some of the old staff to build a place where people wrote light novels.
23 Sep 2019 Thomas Cook Airlines — at around two in the morning on 23 september 2019 the thomas cook group went into compulsory liquidation, and the airline stopped flying in the middle
26 Sep 2019 CyberBunker — cyberbunker sold server space out of a decommissioned nuclear command post and advertised that it would refuse nothing except child pornography and te
29 Sep 2019 Baidu Browser — baidu shipped a desktop browser in july 2011 that ran two rendering engines at once, webkit for the modern web and trident for the chinese banking sit
30 Sep 2019 Jaunt VR — 100 million dollar bet on the idea that hollywood was about to need a cinematic vr studio. arthur van hoff and others founded jaunt in september 2013.
30 Sep 2019 Sony Sketch — twenty-three million sketches sat on sony's servers the week the company switched the online half of the app off. the drawing tools stayed on your pho
30 Sep 2019 Meekan — 30 september 2019 is printed on meekan.com and has been since the month it closed. doodle bought the tel aviv chatbot in 2016, kept its founders, and
30 Sep 2019 Synchronica — the notice gave the hour as 26:00 on 30 september 2019, which is how arcades write two in the morning. after that the machines kept playing and stoppe
30 Sep 2019 Wai-Que — at nine every evening yahoo! japan broadcast a live quiz show inside its own app. ten questions, half an hour, and everybody who answered all ten corr
30 Sep 2019 7pay — 1 july 2019 is the launch, and 2 july is the day the first customer wrote in to ask why there were purchases on the account that they had not made. by
Oct 2019 Kwick! — a south-german social network for teenagers. launched 1 december 1999 in stuttgart, ran for two decades, peaked around 1.5 million registered accounts
1 Oct 2019 AlphaDream — tetsuo mizuno had been square's second president and chihiro fujioka had co-directed super mario rpg, and in january 2000 the two of them opened a stu
1 Oct 2019 Zimbra Desktop — four owners in eleven years, and not one of them wanted to maintain the desktop client. zimbra desktop put the whole web mailbox on your machine and l
2 Oct 2019 Pottermore — a million accounts got in early through the magical quill challenge in august 2011, and the site that opened to everyone the following april was the o
7 Oct 2019 Apple Dashboard — dashboard was the floating widget plane that lived behind a keystroke on every mac from 2005 to 2019. apple shipped it with tiger, disabled it by defa
7 Oct 2019 iTunes — itunes died on a mac, but it died for everyone who ever owned an ipod. by 2019 it had bloated into several products glued into one window. the catalin
7 Oct 2019 Sorenson Video — sorenson vision of salt lake city licensed compression work out of utah state university, and apple put the result inside quicktime 3 on 30 march 1998
9 Oct 2019 Portalarium — richard garriott started portalarium in austin in september 2009 and spent its first years on facebook games, one of them a zynga collaboration about
14 Oct 2019 Note to Self — 299 episodes across seven years and two names. it began on 10 september 2012 as new tech city, a wnyc show about technology in new york, and became no
15 Oct 2019 Google Daydream — daydream was google's second swing at mobile vr after cardboard. you slid a compatible android phone into a soft fabric headset called daydream view a
15 Oct 2019 Google Clips — a small camera you were supposed to set down and forget, so an algorithm could pick out the moments it judged worth saving. the idea was that you woul
15 Oct 2019 Ditty — you typed a sentence and ditty sang it. zya licensed real recordings through sony/atv and emi, so the melody under your message was an actual hit, and
16 Oct 2019 Discord Store — the discord store was discord's attempt to sell pc games directly through the chat client. it opened as a closed beta on august 9, 2018, expanded to a
16 Oct 2019 Google Datally — datally was google's android data-saver aimed at emerging markets where mobile plans were small and metered. it shipped out of the next billion users
16 Oct 2019 Share-Online.biz — for more than a decade share-online was where the german-speaking internet parked files that were too big to email and too hot to host under a real na
20 Oct 2019 Safari Extensions Gallery — apple opened the gallery on 28 july 2010 alongside safari 5.0.1 with about a hundred curated extensions in it, and for nine years it was the only sanc
21 Oct 2019 Rapidvideo — warner bros. and netflix went to a german court, and the hollywood trade groups arrived with a list of demands: take down and stay down, plus content-
22 Oct 2019 Mobango — mobango was a uk-registered mobile content portal that ran out of london from 2006. you uploaded ringtones and wallpapers and small java games through
23 Oct 2019 PandoDaily — pandodaily was the tech blog sarah lacy started after leaving techcrunch, funded by the same silicon valley figures it covered. it broke uber culture
23 Oct 2019 Koubachi — zurich, 2009: an ETH spin-off decided a houseplant should be able to ask for water. the sensor it built worked for ten years, sold through Apple store
25 Oct 2019 Facebook Spaces — facebook spaces was facebook's first social-vr product. it launched in beta at f8 on april 18 2017 for the oculus rift and htc vive. you built an avat
25 Oct 2019 Oculus Rooms — oculus rooms was a free social-vr hangout that let four people sit together in a virtual apartment. it shipped on gear vr in december 2016, expanded t
Oct 2019 RED Hydrogen One — a cinema-camera company decided to make a phone and priced it like a luxury object. the pitch was a 3D screen that added a little depth to a little co
26 Oct 2019 picosong — an unreleased kanye west track leaked onto picosong on 12 july 2019. the shutdown notice went up eight days later, and the riaa's subpoena to the regi
Oct 2019 RawGit — 4.2 billion requests in its final month, run by one person who had a handful of minutes a week for it. rawgit let you point a script tag straight at a
30 Oct 2019 Withoutabox — four hundred thousand filmmakers had an account, and for most of them this was the only route into a festival that did not involve a padded envelope a
Oct 2019 Mozilla Lightbeam — the firefox extension that drew a constellation of every third-party tracker following you across the web. atul varma built it in 2011 as an experimen
31 Oct 2019 Openload — openload was the streaming-tier cyberlocker of the late 2010s. it hosted pirated films and shows for embedded players on hundreds of streaming aggrega
31 Oct 2019 Nat Geo Your Shot — disney inherited national geographic in the fox deal and decided a photo community with its own website was redundant next to an instagram account. yo
31 Oct 2019 Pokémon Duel — the google play description changed one morning in july 2019, and that is how anybody found out. the new text gave a terminal date and a time to the m
Nov 2019 Qtrax — qtrax sold the dream every downloader wanted in 2008: music that was free and also legal, blessed by the labels. the labels said they had blessed noth
Nov 2019 WikiTribune — jimmy wales announced wikitribune in april 2017 as a fix for fake news: paid journalists writing alongside volunteer editors, every article carrying i
1 Nov 2019 Weatherzone Forums — on 3 july 2019 a weatherzone staffer named todd baker posted that the forum would close, thanked the moderators, and gave two dates: read-only on 29 j
5 Nov 2019 Star Ocean: Anamnesis — square enix built a mobile gacha game to celebrate twenty years of star ocean and filled it with characters from every entry in the series, with motoi
5 Nov 2019 Fotolia — adobe paid eight hundred million dollars in cash for fotolia in december 2014, kept it open as a separate storefront for another four years, then fold
6 Nov 2019 Insignia Connect — best buy put its house brand on a line of smart plugs, a light switch, a wifi camera and a freezer, ran the cloud for them for about a year and a half
7 Nov 2019 CrowdRise — edward norton ran the 2009 new york city marathon for a kenyan conservation trust, put up a page to collect the pledges and pulled in one point two mi
12 Nov 2019 FedBizOpps — every american federal contracting opportunity above $25,000 had to appear on one website first, and from october 2001 to november 2019 that website w
13 Nov 2019 Human Head Studios — twenty-two years of independence ended the day after rune ii went on sale. six people out of raven software set up in madison, wisconsin in 1997 and s
15 Nov 2019 Kuniao Browser — for a few days in november 2019 there was an advertised, legal way to read twitter from inside china. kuniao was a windows browser from a fuzhou compa
17 Nov 2019 Google Touring Bird — touring bird was a google area 120 incubator project for tours and city activities. it stealth-launched in paris in april 2018 and opened publicly in
17 Nov 2019 PirateBox — david darts was teaching at nyu when he put a cheap router and a usb stick in a lunchbox in 2011 and released the whole design under the free art lice
20 Nov 2019 Microsoft HealthVault — healthvault was microsoft's bet that consumers would assemble their own electronic medical record by hand and store it in a microsoft cloud. it shippe
22 Nov 2019 Murfie — murfie was the audiophile mail-in cd locker. you sent your physical discs to madison wisconsin, the company ripped them to flac and held them in a war
22 Nov 2019 Google Bulletin — bulletin appeared in january 2018 as a google pilot in nashville and oakland, a phone app for writing up a school game or a road closure and publishin
27 Nov 2019 Plated — two harvard business school classmates worked out that the expensive part of dinner is not the food, it is deciding and shopping. plated shipped the d
Nov 2019 Google Express — google launched the service in march 2013 as google shopping express, a same-day delivery pilot in the san francisco bay area for items from target, w
30 Nov 2019 The 405 — oliver primus published the first piece on april 28, 2008 and was still the editor on the day it closed. the 405 covered independent music out of lond
30 Nov 2019 vcash — a cashback war killed this one. digi launched vcash in november 2017 as one of the first malaysian e-wallets and switched it off two years later, on 3
30 Nov 2019 NHK Net Club (NHKネットクラブ) — buy a bs capable television in japan and nhk puts a message across the screen until you tell the broadcaster you own one. clearing that message online
Dec 2019 Ofo — ofo was the yellow dockless bike-share that came out of peking university in 2014. at peak in 2017-2018 it had about ten million bikes on the ground a
2019 Skype Lite — microsoft launched skype lite in mumbai in february 2017, a 13mb android build aimed at the cheap-phone-and-slow-network reality of indian users. saty
Dec 2019 Moikrug — moikrug, "my circle", was russia's professional network, a place to map your work contacts by degrees the way linkedin did, connections of connections
Dec 2019 Vidivodo — vidivodo opened in december 2006 with an english interface, a webcam recorder and a slogan that told turkish users to create their own tv. a court ord
Dec 2019 iOffer — seventeen years of haggling ended when the card companies stopped answering. ioffer ran a marketplace with no bidding and no clock in it: a seller pos
1 Dec 2019 Viggle — you held the phone up to the television and the app listened, worked out what was on and paid you points that turned into gift cards. robert f. x. sil
Dec 2019 OnlinePizza — three students in linköping started taking pizza orders over the web in the summer of 2005, and by the end the service carried more than 1,400 restaur
2 Dec 2019 Ameba Pigg — ameba pigg was japan's biggest virtual community that nobody outside japan knew about. it ran on flash. ten million people made an avatar there and fu
2 Dec 2019 Pigg World — december 2016 is when pigg world stopped getting anything new, and it kept running for three more years anyway. cyberagent built it as a town building
2 Dec 2019 drawr — flash is what killed this one, and the closure notice says so directly. drawr ran from october 2008 to 13:00 on 2 december 2019, eleven years of a bro
2 Dec 2019 freeml — japan kept running mailing lists for twenty years after everywhere else moved to forums and then to feeds, and freeml was where most of them lived. gm
3 Dec 2019 Google Fusion Tables — a 2009 google labs project that let anyone turn a csv into an embeddable map or chart. journalists used it to visualize war deaths for the guardian in
3 Dec 2019 Bukuma! — hiroyuki tsuruta was twenty when he won japan's launch pad startup pitch in december 2011, the youngest person ever to take it. his company labit crow
4 Dec 2019 CBS Corporation — the redstone family took one company apart in 2005 and put it back together in 2019, and the second cbs corporation is the piece that existed in betwe
5 Dec 2019 Dragon's Dogma Online — capcom took the pawn system from dragon's dogma, the one where your companion learns how you fight and other players borrow it while you are offline,
5 Dec 2019 Chainer — chainer came out of a tokyo company in june 2015 with an idea nobody else had shipped: build the computation graph while the code runs, instead of des
9 Dec 2019 GameRankings — gamerankings launched in 1999 and averaged every review it could find into a percentage score. no taste hierarchy, no weighted metascore. cbs interact
13 Dec 2019 Moshi Monsters — moshi monsters was the london kid mmo from mind candy. you adopted one of six monsters, raised it inside monstro city, earned rox by solving small puz
Dec 2019 Coolest Cooler — coolest cooler was a cooler with a built-in blender and a bluetooth speaker, funded on kickstarter in 2014 for over $13 million from 62,000 backers, a
Dec 2019 StuffIt — stuffit was the mac's .sit. born as shareware in 1987 under raymond lau, a stuyvesant high school student in queens. aladdin systems took it commercia
15 Dec 2019 Yahoo! Blog (Japan) — yahoo! blog was yahoo japan doing what every yahoo did in 2005, which was ship a blog platform because blogs were what the internet wanted that year.
15 Dec 2019 Google Correlate — google trends tells you what a search term did over time. correlate did the same arithmetic pointing the other way, so you uploaded a data series and
15 Dec 2019 Plays.tv — dennis fong called it instagram for gamers, which in 2015 meant a windows client that sat behind your game recording everything and let you keep the l
16 Dec 2019 Mozilla Thimble — one and a half million projects had to move house. thimble was mozilla's teaching editor, markup on the left and the finished page on the right, redra
16 Dec 2019 X-Ray Goggles — hover over anything on any page and the goggles showed you the tag holding it up. click, type over it, publish the result at a mozilla address, send t
16 Dec 2019 Comic Book DB — the closing notice promised a new and improved tool for collectors. seven years later there is no tool, and the catalog that thousands of readers spen
17 Dec 2019 Adayroi — adayroi was vingroup's attempt to build vietnam's amazon. the conglomerate that makes everything from apartment towers to electric cars launched it in
18 Dec 2019 Monster Hunter Frontier Z — capcom took monster hunter off the living room floor and put it on a japanese pc server in june 2007, then charged a monthly fee to play it, which no
19 Dec 2019 Craftster — leah kramer wrote craftster herself in 2003 because the craft web she could find was aimed at a different kind of crafter than the one she was. it bec
19 Dec 2019 The Inquirer — mike magee had already co-founded the register when he walked out in 2001 and started a second tech tabloid with the strapline "news, reviews, facts a
20 Dec 2019 YNN — forty-seven prefectures, one comedy act living in each of them, all of them filming. yoshimoto kogyo opened its own video-on-demand service three week
23 Dec 2019 DMM留学 (DMM Ryugaku) — on 6 march 2019 dmm stopped taking inquiries for its study-abroad desk, and the service still had nine months left to run. the website came down in ju
29 Dec 2019 OpenAirplane — one checkout instead of a new one at every counter. that was the whole product. a pilot flew a universal pilot checkout in a given make and model at a
30 Dec 2019 BeatTube — the developer published two reasons on 10 october 2019 and put them in order. the code was old, built around a portrait and landscape design that foug
2019 Adobe Encore — encore was the DVD authoring tool inside the adobe video catalog. you finished a film in premiere, you opened encore, you laid out a menu with chapter
31 Dec 2019 BlackBerry World — blackberry world was rim's app marketplace for blackberry os and later blackberry 10 devices. it launched as blackberry app world on april 1 2009, it
31 Dec 2019 Turbolinux — turbolinux was the linux distribution built for east asian languages from the start. it began as pacific hitech in salt lake city in 1992 selling shov
Dec 2019 Amazon Underground — amazon underground was a strange 2015 experiment. amazon launched an android app store where the apps were fully free forever, in-app purchases includ
31 Dec 2019 The Witches' Voice — witchvox was a directory before it was anything else. two people in florida built a place where a pagan in a small town could post a listing and be fo
2019 Ambient Orb — a hundred and fifty dollars bought a frosted glass ball in 2002 that glowed a color instead of showing a number. green for a market going up and red f
31 Dec 2019 Himabu — on 30 october 2019 nanameue announced it was closing the biggest students-only app in japan, with two months of notice and roughly eight million regis
31 Dec 2019 Sandstorm Oasis — about two hundred people were paying six dollars a month for oasis when kenton varda decided he no longer felt right taking the money. oasis was the m
Dec 2019 Light L16 — sixteen small camera modules behind one piece of glass, fused by software into a 52-megapixel file, sold for $1,699 from july 2017. support ended at t

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2018 Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing — mavis beacon teaches typing was a fictional typing tutor invented in 1987 by the software toolworks. a haitian model named renee l'esperance posed for
2018 Microsoft Songsmith — you sang into the microphone and songsmith built a backing track in a genre you picked. the january 2009 launch came with one of the most- mocked info
2018 Mig33 — mig33 was the mobile chat app indonesia ran on before whatsapp arrived. it peaked at 33 million monthly active users across southeast asia and the gul
2018 SiteMeter — for a decade SiteMeter was the small color bar at the bottom of every blogger.com blog. it counted visits, plotted referrers, and gave you a dashboard
2018 SecuROM — securom was the sony dadc pc-game copy protection that shipped in 1998 and inherited the new-title business from safedisc and starforce in the mid 200
Jan 2018 Fullscreen (streaming) — a subscription video service that cost about five dollars a month and aimed straight at teenagers, built around the youtube-style creators that fullsc
2018 Peeple — peeple was pitched in 2015 as a yelp for human beings, a place to leave star reviews on people whether they consented or not. the internet reacted the
1 Jan 2018 StartCom / StartSSL — startcom handed out ssl certificates for nothing from 1999, years before any serious authority thought that was a survivable business. it charged you
2018 Biip.no — biip was norway's biggest online hangout for teenagers, a community that at its height signed up more than four hundred and fifty thousand of them, cl
Jan 2018 Lanyrd — lanyrd started as a honeymoon project in june 2010 and launched that september at a conference in brighton. it signed in with twitter and read who you
Jan 2018 Voddler — voddler's argument was that it would never have to pay for delivery at netflix scale, because the audience would do the carrying. vnet was a controlle
2018 Z Launcher — nokia closed the sale of its handset division to microsoft in april 2014 and announced an android launcher in june. it was a real piece of software ra
2018 RocketHub — fifteen million dollars is what efactor group paid for rockethub on 15 april 2015, and three years later the brand was switched off. it was the third-
2018 ExpressCard — thirty-four millimeters wide, with one lane of pci express and one usb port wired to the back of it. expresscard was the 2003 replacement for the pc c
Jan 2018 Foodily — february 2011, two former yahoo marketers with five million dollars from index ventures and one idea: recipe search was already solved, recipe trust w
2018 Catahya — a stockholm association affiliated with sverok ran the largest fantasy site on the swedish internet for most of the 2000s, then kept running it for an
2018 Hevre (חבר'ה) — 1.2 million registered users in a country of seven million, found by asking people one question: which year did you finish school, and which unit were
1 Jan 2018 BIBSYS — trondheim, february 1972: two university libraries and a computing center started automating their card catalogs together, and what they built ended u
2018 Crypto AG — the cia and west germany's bnd bought this swiss company in june 1970 for 5.75 million dollars and spent the next fifty years selling compromised ciph
2018 This Is Why You're Fat — "where dreams become heart attacks" was the subtitle, and for most of 2009 it was one of the most visited jokes on the english-speaking internet. two
Jan 2018 SurfPatrol — eighty nine percent of the browsers that visited surfpatrol in 2011 came back with at least one known hole in them, and nearly half came back with mor
2018 Begun — andrey andreev built the runet's first traffic counter in 1999, sold it, and in 2002 built the runet's first contextual advertising network. google of
2018 LinkExpats — four thousand members in february 2011, eight hundred of them in the united arab emirates, which is why an abu dhabi newspaper ended up writing about
1 Jan 2018 Feral Audio — on 21 december 2017 a musician published an account of a relationship with dustin marshall, who had co-founded feral audio five years earlier. marshal
3 Jan 2018 AOL Reader — when google announced reader would die in july 2013 the whole rss-reader ecosystem scrambled. aol shipped its own reader on 24 june, one week ahead of
3 Jan 2018 The Superficial — the superficial ran from may 2004 under the tagline because you're ugly, and it was the meanest and funniest of the american celebrity blogs for about
3 Jan 2018 Parsix GNU/Linux — iran got its own debian derivative on 1 february 2005, and alan baghumian kept it current for twelve years, which is longer than plenty of distributio
5 Jan 2018 Anime Strike — anime strike was the first branded subscription channel amazon built on its own channels platform, launched on 12 january 2017 at four dollars ninety
5 Jan 2018 Uzbl — gentoo buried it in january 2016 with a mask message saying the project was slowly dying and nothing was happening in the repository. the maintainer a
7 Jan 2018 GoPro Karma — the karma was gopro's drone. announced september 19 2016, on shelves october 23. on november 8 the company recalled every single unit it had sold (rou
7 Jan 2018 Bitsquid — two engineers out of the collapsed studio grin started a game engine in stockholm in 2009 and sold it to autodesk five years later. autodesk renamed i
Jan 2018 Sports Illustrated (weekly print) — american sports as a weekly magazine. time inc launched it 16 august 1954 and it ran on that cadence for 63 years. the january 2018 issues shipped biw
9 Jan 2018 Microsoft Equation Editor — the equation editor shipped with word for twenty seven years and was never the most loved tool in office. you opened it to insert a square root or a s
9 Jan 2018 Nerve.com — a smart new-york webzine about sex, launched by two people who thought the internet needed better writing on the subject than what was already out the
10 Jan 2018 nrg Maariv — twenty five million shekels went into the june 2004 relaunch that turned maariv online into nrg, and the target was ynet. it never got there. the news
11 Jan 2018 LINE Q — the points you earned for a good answer on line q converted into money, and from june 2014 the money reached you inside a month instead of six weeks.
15 Jan 2018 Pronoun — it started in 2009 as vook, a company selling books with video stitched into them, and spent six years failing at that before it found the thing it wa
15 Jan 2018 知日部屋 — a japanese studies professor at the chinese university of hong kong started a blog in may 2005 and ran it for thirteen years from a tilde path on the
16 Jan 2018 Bitconnect — bitconnect promised a "trading bot" that paid one percent compounded daily, which is mathematically a ponzi. for about eighteen months in 2016 and 201
18 Jan 2018 Batoto — batoto was a manga reader that behaved decently in a category that mostly did not. it hosted fan translations and credited the groups who made them, a
18 Jan 2018 HuffPost Contributor Platform — arianna huffington's opening move in 2005 was an address book. the huffington post launched with invited bloggers writing for nothing, and thirteen ye
19 Jan 2018 Facebook M — facebook m was a chat assistant inside messenger that you could ask to book a restaurant or schedule a delivery, and a real human in menlo park would
22 Jan 2018 Ando — ando was david chang's bet that delivery food failed because the food was an afterthought, not because delivery was hard. so momofuku built a restaura
25 Jan 2018 Perpetuum — ten people in budapest spent five years building a single-shard sandbox mmo where you drive a robot across an alien planet and the economy is entirely
26 Jan 2018 Suono Dolce — nippon broadcasting opened a station in april 2007 that played love songs and nothing else, and named it in italian for the sweet sound it was going f
31 Jan 2018 The Awl — the awl was a small NYC site that ran on the premise that good writing could still be a business model on the open web. it had a sister network includ
Jan 2018 The Hairpin — the hairpin was a women-focused literary blog inside the awl network, founded by edith zimmerman in september 2010 and run out of the same small new y
31 Jan 2018 Microsoft Classroom — a free class hub for office 365 education tenants, opened as a preview on 14 april 2016, where a teacher made a class and handed out assignments that
31 Jan 2018 Master X Master — two hundred and twenty four days is how long the global version lasted. ncsoft's moba let you bring two characters into a match and swap between them
31 Jan 2018 Anno Online — blue byte built an anno game that ran inside a flash plugin, on the engine behind die siedler online, and it was good enough to win the deutscher entw
31 Jan 2018 Time Inc. — the signage came off the lower manhattan building in the first week of february 2018. meredith corporation, an iowa publisher best known for better ho
31 Jan 2018 GAZOO METAPOLIS — mamoru oshii, the director of ghost in the shell, supervised a virtual city built by a car company for young japanese people who were no longer buying
Feb 2018 Ciao — ciao launched out of munich in november 1999 and grew into the shopping review network of western europe, seven country sites where members wrote abou
Feb 2018 dooyoo — dooyoo went online out of berlin in december 1999 and paid people, in points, to write about the things they already owned. at its height it ran in si
Feb 2018 Rock Band Network — harmonix opened the rock band network on 4 march 2010 so bands could author their own songs into the game and sell them, splitting the revenue instead
Feb 2018 Hatreon — cody wilson soft launched it in june 2017 as a crowdfunding site with no content rules, built for people patreon had removed. it worked for roughly fo
Feb 2018 Wiadomości24.pl — on 22 september 2017 polska press told the seven thousand people who had been writing its news that the site was closing, and gave them three months t
1 Feb 2018 Mapzen — on 2 january 2018 a post went up on the company blog with a sad face in the title. samsung's new york mapping lab had spent four years building search
Feb 2018 A Couple of Guys — a gay newspaper in miami printed the first one in september 1996 and the last one ran in february 2018, which is twenty-one years of the same two men
Feb 2018 NewsIsFree — 12,609 sources, and 271,411 headlines in the previous twenty-four hours: that was the counter at the foot of newsisfree on the last day anybody archiv
1 Feb 2018 Wit.ai Bot Engine — april 2016 was the month everyone decided chatbots were next, and facebook shipped the tool for building them. twenty-two months later it was gone, fo
2 Feb 2018 AcFun — acfun launched june 2007 as china's first comment-overlay video site. the danmu format put viewer comments scrolling across the playback frame in real
4 Feb 2018 The Key of Awesome — mark douglas spent eleven years making a music video every week about whatever song was on american radio that week, on a channel that started life in
5 Feb 2018 PVP Live — the goodbye was addressed to the #pvpfam and it ran four sentences. pvp live had been an esports news operation out of frisco, texas since 2012, with
6 Feb 2018 Wileyfox — wileyfox sold cheap unlocked android phones in britain from august 2015, and its one distinguishing feature was cyanogen os running out of the box ins
8 Feb 2018 Pledgie — mark daggett and garry dolley met working at revver and shared a taste for ruby. what they built in 2007 was a donation page you could embed anywhere
11 Feb 2018 Verrit — 65.8 million was hillary clinton's popular vote total in 2016, and peter daou built an entire media company addressed to that number. verrit served po
12 Feb 2018 Oddshot — twitch shipped clips in may 2016, and oddshot had twenty-one months left after that. a small helsinki company had built the thing everyone used to sav
13 Feb 2018 Caller's Bane — bethesda's lawyers looked at a card game from the minecraft studio and saw the elder scrolls. notch offered to settle it with a quake 3 match and got
14 Feb 2018 Microsoft BizSpark — bizspark was the startup-tier sibling of dreamspark. three years of free microsoft developer licenses for any company under one million dollars in rev
15 Feb 2018 DittoTV — a broadcaster built an app that sold you its competitors' channels, which is a strange thing for a broadcaster to do and the only reason the app was w
15 Feb 2018 SUSE Studio — in july 2009 novell put a linux image builder on the open web, and for the first time you could assemble a distribution by ticking boxes in a browser
16 Feb 2018 Twitter for Mac — twitter for mac started as tweetie 2 for mac, written by loren brichter at atebits, the same developer who built the pull-to-refresh gesture on the or
16 Feb 2018 Norm Macdonald Live — thirty nine episodes made across four and a half years for jash, a comedy network that had launched at sxsw sixteen days before the first one went up.
19 Feb 2018 Quagga — a project called zebra was forked by its own contributors and renamed after the quagga, a subspecies of zebra hunted to extinction in the 1880s. for f
20 Feb 2018 Flixster — flixster was a san francisco movie site from 2006 that let you rate films and see what your friends were watching, first as a website and then as a bi
Feb 2018 Swype — swype was a touchscreen keyboard that let you type by dragging one finger across the letters of a word without lifting it. it shipped commercially in
22 Feb 2018 Marvel Tsum Tsum — two services, two funerals, sixteen weeks apart. the global version closed on 31 october 2017 and the japanese one followed at 23:59 on 22 february 20
23 Feb 2018 PubMed Central Canada — four percent. that is the share of papers from cihr-funded research that ever got deposited into canada's own copy of pubmed central, and it is the nu
26 Feb 2018 Stan James — the brand was 45 years old on the day it was switched off. two partners opened a betting shop in 1973 and built the name out of pieces of their own, s
28 Feb 2018 Disney Movies Anywhere — disney movies anywhere existed to fix a problem the studios had built themselves. a film bought on itunes stayed on itunes, and the disc in your hand
28 Feb 2018 ShortNews — andreas mihalovits and oliver stangl started shortnews in 1999 and it ended up holding the title of oldest user-written news portal in germany, which
1 Mar 2018 Project Tango — project tango was google's first serious bet on depth-aware phones. it shipped on a peanut prototype, a yellowstone tablet, a lenovo phab 2 pro, and a
1 Mar 2018 Nextbit Robin — the robin was a $399 android phone with 100 gb of cloud storage bolted into the OS. built by ex-android engineers who thought they could kickstarter t
Mar 2018 Yepme — yepme started in 2011 as an online clothes shop in gurgaon and turned itself into a private-label fashion brand you could not escape on indian televis
Mar 2018 PhantomJS — phantomjs was a webkit browser with the window taken off, driven entirely from javascript, and for most of the 2010s it was how an automated test actu
1 Mar 2018 ImageBrief — simon moss started this in sydney in 2011 and moved it to new york a year later, on an idea that reads well on a slide: instead of searching a stock c
Mar 2018 Blog.onet.pl — in july 2006 a man who had been poland's prime minister until that summer opened a blog on onet's platform, and onet built a zone for well-known blogg
1 Mar 2018 Sandglaz — one idea, executed narrowly for seven years: a task you did not finish should move itself into next week rather than sit there accusing you. nada alda
5 Mar 2018 Devilian — a korean studio built an isometric action rpg with an mmo bolted around it, where your character had a human form and a devil form that leveled separa
6 Mar 2018 Bumpers — two ex-twitter engineers raised a million dollars to make podcasting feel like leaving a voice memo, and for sixteen months it did. the app normalized
8 Mar 2018 Yahoo Aviate — aviate was an android launcher that rearranged your home screen based on context, mostly time of day and physical location. ex-googlers founded it in
8 Mar 2018 Alluc — alluc held no files. it indexed other people's streaming links, roughly a hundred million of them across more than seven hundred video hosts, and answ
15 Mar 2018 Phantom Secure — vincent ramos was arrested in a restaurant in bellingham, washington on 7 march 2018, and eight days later the department of justice unsealed an indic
17 Mar 2018 KeepVid — on 17 march 2018 the box where you pasted the link disappeared from keepvid.com and a page about copyright took its place. for twelve years the site h
19 Mar 2018 123Movies — the streaming-piracy site that briefly outdrew most legal services. operators in vietnam, peak traffic of ninety eight million a month in march 2018.
20 Mar 2018 RequestBin — the oldest archived copy of requestb.in carries a donate box asking for help to "prove that we can sustainably run these kinds of public services for
26 Mar 2018 Adobe Muse — muse was adobe's bet that designers would build websites in a tool shaped like indesign. for six years it shipped indesign-style page layouts that com
26 Mar 2018 Digg Reader — when google announced reader would die on 1 july 2013, betaworks said out loud that its rebuilt digg would ship an rss reader before the deadline. the
27 Mar 2018 Lytro — $140m and a stanford phd that turned into a product almost nobody bought. ren ng's plenoptic math was a real shift in how cameras could think about a
27 Mar 2018 Shyp — kevin gibbon's on-demand shipping startup ran couriers as W-2 employees, raised $62 million from kleiner perkins, expanded to five cities and then had
28 Mar 2018 Nintendo Zone — nintendo put wifi hotspots into shops and restaurants so that a handheld would notice them by itself and pull down a demo or a video without anyone ty
28 Mar 2018 Gran Turismo 6 — december 2013 was a strange month for a flagship. the playstation 4 had been on sale for three weeks and polyphony shipped gran turismo 6 for the mach
28 Mar 2018 Tales of Link — one finger, dragged across a grid of tales characters to connect them into a single attack. akatsuki built it with bandai namco studios and it held th
29 Mar 2018 Yahoo! Category — about 800,000 sites, every one of them read by a person before it went anywhere. yahoo japan opened its directory on 1 april 1996 with roughly fifteen
29 Mar 2018 Jichitai Tokusen Store (自治体特選ストア) — takeo city in saga prefecture opened it on 7 november 2011, and the mayor registered the trademark in his own name. the idea was that japanese local g
30 Mar 2018 Firefox Marketplace — on 29 march 2016 mozilla switched off payments and every platform except firefox OS, which had itself been cancelled a few months earlier. what remain
30 Mar 2018 Republika.pl — about a thousand people a month were still logging in when onet closed republika www on 30 march 2018. in 2003 the same service had counted more than
30 Mar 2018 HuffPost Arabi — london and istanbul were picked on purpose. arianna huffington said in the launch post that staying outside anyone's censorship was the point, and the
30 Mar 2018 Josephine — alameda county spent 2016 telling oakland home cooks that selling dinner to a neighbor was a misdemeanor. josephine, the startup that had signed those
Mar 2018 Apparatus — the swedish android sandbox puzzle game from 2011. you used a hammer to pin planks and wheels together. you connected motors and batteries. you tried
Mar 2018 Adobe LiveCycle — adobe livecycle was the enterprise pdf-forms server that ran inside banks and government agencies for about a decade. adobe rebranded it to experience
31 Mar 2018 Chikka — chikka was a philippine messenger that bridged the web and the phone network, letting you sit at a pc and send a free text to someone's mobile even wh
31 Mar 2018 Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII — square enix built a real final fantasy for japanese phones in 2004, an action rpg about the turks, set six years before the events of final fantasy vi
31 Mar 2018 Pornokitsch — anne c. perry and jared shurin ran a genre fiction blog out of london for ten years under a name that means, more or less, trash that people love. it
31 Mar 2018 Watch Me! TV — fuji television's answer to youtube was a video site where a human looked at your clip before anybody else could. it opened in july 2006, three months
31 Mar 2018 Ace Combat Infinity — every mission in this one, including the eight single-player ones, needed a handshake with a server in japan before the title screen would move. so wh
31 Mar 2018 Lantis Net Radio — the station stopped on the last day of march 2018 and the company that ran it stopped existing the next morning, when lantis was folded into bandai vi
1 Apr 2018 Ustream — ustream was a live-streaming platform that ran from 2007 to 2018. it carried obama press calls and the 2012 hugo awards ceremony that got famously cut
Apr 2018 Flipagram — flipagram turned a set of photos into a short video set to music, and it hit number one in the us app store within a week of its november 2013 relaunc
Apr 2018 Bloglovin' — bloglovin was the follow button for the blog era, a swedish reader that started in 2007 and let you keep a feed of the blogs you liked without opening
Apr 2018 MOOMA — yoav kutner was an israeli radio presenter and critic, and the encyclopedia he built inside mooma was for a long time the only serious written record
1 Apr 2018 Google Site Search — for ten years, if a company's website had a search box that actually returned the right page, there was a fair chance google was being paid to run it.
Apr 2018 Hyde Park (hydepark.co.il) — a london park gave it the name and the argument: anyone can stand up, anyone gets to talk. two israelis in their twenties put that on the web in may 2
Apr 2018 Microsoft Excel Viewer — seventy-four megabytes, and all it would do was show you a spreadsheet. nothing could be edited or saved, and a macro-enabled file would open but the
Apr 2018 Political Scrapbook — in april 2018 a note went up saying the scrapbook team were taking a break to work on other projects, and nobody ever posted again. laurence durnan ha
Apr 2018 StreetLend — a ladder gets used twice a decade and costs real money, and that is the entire argument for borrowing one. chris beach built streetlend in 2013 as a l
Apr 2018 CoinTouch — a european privacy law came into force on 25 may 2018 and one of the things it removed from the web was a free, no-custody bitcoin matching service ru
2 Apr 2018 Steam Machine — steam machine was valve's bet that a linux pc with a steam controller could replace the xbox in the living room. fourteen pc vendors built the first w
2 Apr 2018 Tor Messenger — tor messenger was the tor project's attempt at a secure-by-default chat client. it was an instantbird fork that forced every message through tor and t
2 Apr 2018 Mollom — mollom read every comment before it posted and decided whether a person had written it. when it was confident it let the text through or dropped it si
2 Apr 2018 Flipnote Gallery: World — on 8 september 2017 nintendo put a notice on its japanese support site giving a paid service seven more months. flipnote gallery: world was where you
3 Apr 2018 COSMiQ — lycos europe put up a question and answer site called lycos iq in january 2006 to go after yahoo answers. lycos europe then dissolved, and the site di
3 Apr 2018 MotiFake — for twelve years the black border with the white caption was a format anyone could make, and motifake was where the people who made them went. it call
Apr 2018 BlogBridge — the man who invented the pivot table put eight years into a java feed reader for people who followed hundreds of blogs at once. pito salas started it
4 Apr 2018 Poema.pl — arkadiusz kuryłowicz ran a polish poetry site for eighteen years and then switched it off in stages. logins went dead at 21:56 on 31 march 2017, which
5 Apr 2018 Polyvore — polyvore was the place a generation of women learned to think in mood boards before instagram and pinterest were the only places left. you clipped a d
6 Apr 2018 Backpage.com — backpage was an american classifieds site that started as a craigslist imitator inside the village voice newspaper chain. it spent fourteen years spli
8 Apr 2018 SmallWorlds — smallworlds launched in 2008 from auckland, new zealand. outsmart games built a flash-based browser virtual world aimed at teenagers and young adults,
10 Apr 2018 Neihan Duanzi — neihan duanzi was a chinese joke and short video app, launched in march 2012 as one of bytedance's first products. its users called themselves duanyou
11 Apr 2018 Workopolis — workopolis was what canada had instead of monster. it came out of a globe and mail careers site in 1999, took its name when torstar joined in 2000, an
17 Apr 2018 Mangamura — mangamura was japan-only at the language layer. two years of scanlated manga piracy that pulled 98 million visits in january 2018 alone, cost the mang
18 Apr 2018 Pokémon Brick Bronze — the pokémon company filed one notice and a game with twenty-two thousand people inside it disappeared the same day, badges and purchases included. bri
18 Apr 2018 Intel Vaunt — a class-one laser in the rim of an ordinary-looking pair of glasses painted a small red display onto the wearer's retina. no camera, no speaker, nothi
18 Apr 2018 Seisen Cerberus — on 18 april 2018, at three in the afternoon, gree switched off a browser game that had opened on 18 april 2011. seven years to the day, and no reason
22 Apr 2018 Spinlister — a board of investors in santa monica decided in march 2018 that spinlister was not going to raise again, and the peer-to-peer bike rental marketplace
23 Apr 2018 TravBuddy — travbuddy was a social network for travelers, built by two brothers in 2005. you found someone heading where you were heading, and you kept a blog of
24 Apr 2018 Casio Exilim — eleven point three millimeters was the number. that was the thickness of the ex-s1 in june 2002, when every other digital compact was closer to thirty
24 Apr 2018 Virgin America — richard branson was never allowed to own more than a quarter of the voting stock, because american law will not let a foreigner control an american ai
26 Apr 2018 Apple AirPort — apple airport was the home wifi router that mac households bought because it looked like apple hardware and worked with the rest of the apple stack. i
26 Apr 2018 Apple Time Capsule — time capsule was apple's wifi router with a backup drive built in. you plugged it in once and time machine started shipping hourly snapshots over the
26 Apr 2018 Paragon — paragon was epic games' third-person moba, built on unreal engine 4, with a real early-access following in 2016 before it lost the studio's attention.
26 Apr 2018 Warner Archive Instant — on 26 april 2018 warner bros switched off the streaming service it had built out of its own back catalog. warner archive instant opened to the public
27 Apr 2018 Yandex.Fotki — yandex ran a photo host for eleven years, and for the middle stretch of that it was where a good part of the russian-language web kept its pictures. b
27 Apr 2018 Kephost.com — 752,593 images is what archive team managed to pull off kephost.com before the end, out of a library taking nearly two thousand uploads a day. the hun
Apr 2018 Vine Camera — vine camera was the bone twitter threw at vine users after killing the social side of vine on january 17, 2017. the app that the original vine icon up
30 Apr 2018 Tunngle — tunngle was a virtual lan. it installed a network driver that made a room of strangers on the internet look to your computer like machines plugged int
30 Apr 2018 Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer — a .ppt file was useless on a machine without powerpoint on it, and microsoft's answer was a small free program that could put one on screen and print
30 Apr 2018 Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack — twenty million people downloaded it in its first twelve months, by hand, one at a time, because microsoft deliberately refused to push it through wind
30 Apr 2018 Mozilla Webmaker — mozilla announced webmaker on 22 may 2012 with a goal stated plainly: move people from using the web to making it. the program produced thimble and po
1 May 2018 Xmarks — xmarks was the bookmark sync utility for the years when firefox, chrome, safari and internet explorer all still mattered and none of them synced with
1 May 2018 Microsoft Office Mix — microsoft's startup business group built a powerpoint add-in for teachers in 2014. it added screen recording, inking, narration, and interactive polls
May 2018 Blinkbox — a uk transactional video-on-demand service that michael comish and adrian letts launched in october 2007. tesco bought an eighty percent stake in apri
May 2018 Roku SoundBridge — roku made a network music player in 2003 before it made the streaming stick. m1000 and m2000, vacuum fluorescent display and ethernet in the back, rea
2018 InvisionFree — invisionfree spent over fifteen years handing anyone a free message board with a few clicks. it ran on invision power's forum software and hosted more
May 2018 vSide — a 3d virtual world built around music and looking cool, the kind of place teenagers logged into after school to stand around a broadcast dj set. doppe
May 2018 WikiAnswers — it started as faq farm in 2002 and ran on one argument: a question should have a single answer that everybody edits, not fifty answers that everybody
1 May 2018 Mugobi — in february 2018 eyal shamy posted on the official blog that the servers of a nine-year-old children's virtual world would go dark on 1 may. he wrote
May 2018 Network Awesome — on 1 january 2011 two people started a television channel with no television in it. network awesome put up a programmed day of old documentaries and p
1 May 2018 Dream Festival! — on 5 march 2018 a single announcement closed the game and retired the people who played its characters. dream festival ran on physical cards bought fr
2 May 2018 Polymer — polymer was google's bet that the browser's native web-components spec would eat half of what react was doing. you wrote custom html elements with sha
2 May 2018 Cambridge Analytica — up to eighty-seven million facebook profiles ended up inside a political consultancy that almost none of those people had chosen to deal with. the har
2 May 2018 はこBOON — yamato transport's contract came up for renewal in 2017 and did not get renewed, and that is the whole cause of death. はこBOON was the cheap way to pos
9 May 2018 Miitomo — miitomo was nintendo's first real smartphone app, built with dena, launched in japan on march 17 2016 and worldwide two weeks later. it used mii avata
11 May 2018 Producteev — a bootstrapped task manager out of new york, launched on stage at leweb in december 2008, built around a grid of project boxes you could fill by email
14 May 2018 Universal Jobmatch — from march 2013 a jobcentre adviser could instruct you to use this website, and refusing could cost you your benefits for as long as three years. univ
15 May 2018 Lycos Mail — one of the first free webmail services on the open web, launched october 1997 out of pittsburgh. lycos itself was sold to terra networks in 2000, to d
15 May 2018 Google Play Newsstand — google play newsstand was the android magazine and news aggregator that lived between november 2013 and may 2018, born from the merger of google play
15 May 2018 Gemnasium — github shipped free security alerts for dependencies at the end of 2017 and gemnasium's churn doubled within months, because nearly all of its paying
16 May 2018 Storify — storify was the way a newsroom turned a twitter thread into something a reader could scroll. every embed depended on a service that adobe eventually o
May 2018 TVShowsOnDVD.com — gord lacey started tvshowsondvd.com in november 2001 as a list of which television series had been pressed onto disc and which had not. it became the
17 May 2018 Socialcast — socialcast was a facebook for the inside of a company: one feed for the whole organization, plus a version you could run on your own servers. vmware b
19 May 2018 The Listserve — five graduate students at new york university asked what an ordinary person would say with one shot at a large audience, then built the smallest possi
21 May 2018 Docker Cloud — sixty days of notice was the whole story here. docker announced on 20 march 2018 that the cluster and application management services in docker cloud
22 May 2018 Hungryhouse — shane lake and tony charles built hungryhouse out of a 2003 project that became a public takeaway-ordering site in 2006. the founders went on dragons
23 May 2018 Bamtoki — thirty-five million visits a month made bamtoki the thirteenth most popular website in south korea, and every page on it was somebody else's comic. a
24 May 2018 Loadout — edge of reality shipped it on steam on 31 january 2014 as a free third-person shooter whose actual product was the gun builder. you assembled weapons
25 May 2018 Klout — the influence score that turned every twitter and facebook account into a number between 1 and 100. joe fernandez and binh tran launched klout in late
25 May 2018 Foodspotting — foodspotting launched in late 2009 in san francisco, founded by alexa andrzejewski, soraya darabi, and ted grubb as a dish-level discovery app where u
25 May 2018 Gulli.com — gulli started in 1998 as a german scene site and turned into the country's main news portal for file sharing and computer security, with a forum that
29 May 2018 Poncho — a beverage brand that sold its drinks over sms bought poncho in may 2018 and turned the weather off in the same week. the cat had been forecasting sin
31 May 2018 Flipnote Hatena — the nintendo DSi animation app. you drew flipbook-style animations on the touchscreen, frame by frame, then uploaded them to the flipnote hatena netwo
31 May 2018 Kindle Scout — kindle scout was amazon's crowd-vote publishing arm. authors uploaded a manuscript and a five-thousand-word excerpt, readers spent thirty days voting
31 May 2018 Mirage: Arcane Warfare — torn banner had sold millions of copies of chivalry, so it followed with the same first person melee combat plus spellcasting, in a setting borrowed f
31 May 2018 Sponavi Live — five hundred yen a month if you were a softbank customer and three thousand if you were not, which tells you most of what the service was for. softban
31 May 2018 BandPage — facebook let outside developers add custom tabs to a page, and rootmusic used that opening to become the music tab: half a million artists ran their f
31 May 2018 Mercari Atte — souzoh, the subsidiary mercari used for new ideas, put out atte on 17 march 2016: a free app that showed you only what was happening within a short wa
31 May 2018 DMM LIVEcommune — eight months and three days is what dmm gave its live streaming app. it opened on 28 september 2017, iphone only, with a beauty filter and about twent
1 Jun 2018 Facebook Trending Topics — facebook trending topics was the right-rail headline list that lived on the facebook web home page from january 2014 to june 1 of 2018. the feature wa
Jun 2018 Epitonic — epitonic opened on 8 march 1999 giving away music that nobody had to steal: cleared mp3s from more than four hundred independent labels, with a writeu
Jun 2018 Mindenkilapja.hu — in february 2004 the address was still a coming-soon splash with one picture on it, promising a framework where anybody could put up their own page in
1 Jun 2018 Code School — gregg pollack was running a web consultancy in orlando when he put out a free ruby tutorial with zombies in it, and the tutorial got big enough to bec
1 Jun 2018 Appcanary — github shipped free security alerts for vulnerable dependencies in november 2017, and seven weeks later it hired the two people who had been selling t
Jun 2018 The World Weekly — seventy-five thousand free copies went out at london members' clubs and transport hubs in january 2013, backed by three city financiers and promising
1 Jun 2018 Penny — alex quach and mitchell lee built a money app that would not let you type. everything penny said to you came out of thirty-four thousand words of hand
5 Jun 2018 Alioth — alexander wirt sent the mail at 21:49 on 5 june 2018, subject line "its dead jim - alioth is gone". for fifteen years alioth had been debian's own sou
5 Jun 2018 LINE Akindo-sei no Little Peso — at three in the afternoon on 5 june 2018 line switched off five of its own games and one mini-game inside a sixth, and this was one of the five. it ha
13 Jun 2018 Live.ly — live.ly was musical.ly's live video spinoff, launched at vidcon on 24 july 2016 and past periscope on the ios charts inside three months. it worked. t
14 Jun 2018 Kimi to Kiri no Labyrinth — three hundred thousand people pre-registered before it opened. square enix shipped it on 13 july 2017, billed as the company's first role playing game
15 Jun 2018 Fieldbook — jason crawford spent five years building a spreadsheet that was secretly a relational database, and in may 2018 he published the number that ended it:
19 Jun 2018 Favstar — favstar took twitter's favorite counter and turned it into a scoreboard. it launched in july 2009 and became the home page of english-language joke tw
21 Jun 2018 Smyte — twitter announced the acquisition at six in the morning pacific time on 21 june 2018 and smyte's api stopped answering roughly thirty minutes later. t
21 Jun 2018 Samurai-Games — the games went first and the shop stayed open. dmm built samurai-games as the chinese-language counterpart to what nutaku was doing in english, and by
25 Jun 2018 search.cpan.org — graham barr wrote it in early 1999, on a solaris machine at washington university in st. louis, and it answered for nineteen years. by the end most of
25 Jun 2018 CROSS×BEATS — two guide lines met at a right angle across the screen, arrows of light ran in along both of them, and the note was wherever they crossed. that is whe
26 Jun 2018 シンクコール (Sync Call) — koji tanaka, running kddi in 2014, looked at three japanese carriers all selling the same iphone and said that leaving volte as nothing but better-sou
28 Jun 2018 Tripsta — tripsta started in athens in 2005 as travelplanet24 and grew into the largest ecommerce business in greece, selling flights in more than 45 countries
29 Jun 2018 Radical.fm — thomas mcalevey's ad-free personalized-radio service, funded on a pay-what-you-want tip-jar model instead of ads or subscription. launched on iphone i
29 Jun 2018 戒赌吧 (Jiedu Ba) — fourteen million people followed a baidu forum whose stated purpose was helping each other stop gambling, and ninety million posts in, xinhua publishe
29 Jun 2018 Skynetblogs — on friday 29 june 2018 proximus closed the blog platform of its skynet brand, a free host that had been running since 2003 and counted 142,937 blogs i
29 Jun 2018 Lumo Lift — an assignment for the benefit of creditors ended lumo bodytech on 29 june 2018, and with it a seven-year attempt to sell posture as a product. the lif
29 Jun 2018 Fortune Tellers Academy — hitoshi fujisawa had directed dragon quest. his next game asked players to predict things that had not happened yet, eight choices to a question and r
30 Jun 2018 StumbleUpon — you installed the browser toolbar. you set up a few interests. you clicked the stumble button. you got taken to a web page somebody else had liked, ma
30 Jun 2018 PureVolume — purevolume was the indie-scene music platform that ran parallel to myspace from thanksgiving eve 2003 until june 30 2018. unsigned bands uploaded mp3s
30 Jun 2018 TBS OnDemand — paravi killed this one on purpose. tbs put its own back catalog online on 3 february 2009, old dramas and music specials sold by the episode, with a ¥
30 Jun 2018 Technics Tracks — two countries and three and a half years. panasonic brought technics back in 2014 and built a hi-res download shop to go with the hardware, then close
30 Jun 2018 Figureheads — most customers left without playing one match. square enix published that as the reason, in its own closing notice, naming the difficulty of commandin
30 Jun 2018 Juscli (ジャスクリ) — a music copyright company founded in 1967 put up a radio station in june 2007 and named it after the two words just click. for eleven years it gave aw
1 Jul 2018 Fantage — a kids' virtual world that ran for ten years out of a fort lee new jersey office, backed by nexon money, with a customizable avatar and a town map and
Jul 2018 Otto — otto was a self-driving trucking startup founded in january 2016 by anthony levandowski and lior ron after they left google. uber acquired it in augus
Jul 2018 Peperonity — peperonity was one of the first and largest places you could build your own mobile page from the phone itself, no computer needed. it ran out of berli
Jul 2018 Smotri.com — smotri.com was one of russia's first attempts at a homegrown youtube, a moscow video-hosting site that let people upload and watch clips and run their
Jul 2018 Lashou — lashou was china's number one daily deals site for about one quarter. it raised $110 million in april 2011 at a valuation of $1.1 billion. that octobe
2 Jul 2018 tbh — tbh was an iphone-only compliments app that asked you to pick which of four schoolmates was kindest, smartest, prettiest. it shipped in georgia in aug
5 Jul 2018 Muv-Luv Alternative Strike Frontier — the game explained its own existence inside its own plot. two students from 2016 fall into a 2001 where humanity has been losing to an alien species f
8 Jul 2018 Radical Heights — boss key productions had one commercial failure behind it and about five months to answer it, so radical heights went onto steam in april 2018 as an u
9 Jul 2018 Tesco Direct — 500 jobs and a 650,000 square foot shed in milton keynes went with it. tesco launched direct in september 2006 as a catalog and a website for the thin
10 Jul 2018 Plenti — one loyalty currency spendable at both a gas station and a department store had been working in britain and canada for years before american express t
17 Jul 2018 Yahoo! Messenger — the messenger with the loudest possible attention-getter (the BUZZ feature shook your whole window with sound). its emoticon library was unmatched. ya
22 Jul 2018 Gas Powered Games — chris taylor came out of cavedog with total annihilation behind him and started gas powered games in redmond in may 1998. dungeon siege and supreme co
24 Jul 2018 DoubleClick — doubleclick was the dot-com era ad-serving company that survived long enough to become the load-bearing wall of google's ads business. google bought i
26 Jul 2018 Otto Radio — samsung's venture arm backed it, uber put it in front of passengers, and the whole thing lasted about three years. otto radio tried to assemble a pers
27 Jul 2018 ZOIDS FIELD OF REBELLION — takara tomy sells plastic model kits of robot animals to children and has done since the 1980s. in april 2017 it put out a four-versus-four competitiv
30 Jul 2018 Quicksales — two melbourne men opened oztion in 2005 as an australian alternative to ebay and spent three years going nowhere in particular. then in may 2008 ebay
30 Jul 2018 Titanfall: Assault — eleven months and twenty days after launch, every server for titanfall's only mobile game went dark. respawn and a studio called particle city had tak
31 Jul 2018 go90 — go90 was verizon's attempt to be the place us millennials watched short video on their phones. the name referenced rotating the phone ninety degrees t
31 Jul 2018 Wikispaces — wikispaces launched in march 2005 in san francisco as a hosted wiki anyone could spin up in a minute. it found its market in k-12 classrooms, where ev
31 Jul 2018 Etsy Wholesale — etsy wholesale was the experiment where the craft marketplace tried to grow up into a b2b channel and ran into the same wall every consumer marketplac
31 Jul 2018 Moves — moves tracked your whole day without asking you to wear anything or press a start button. protogeo built it in helsinki, then facebook bought the team
31 Jul 2018 Puzzle Fighter (2017) — 20 april 2018 is when capcom announced it was switching puzzle fighter off, five months after putting it out. the mobile reboot of super puzzle fighte
31 Jul 2018 Ohanashi Assistant — 15 october 2012: kddi and okinawa cellular announced what their own press release called au's first voice recognition service for android smartphones,
Aug 2018 PriceMinister — priceminister was the french marketplace, founded in paris in august 2000 and open to the public from 16 january 2001, sitting between buyers and sell
Aug 2018 The ISO Zone — nintendo filed against loveroms and loveretro in an arizona federal court in july 2018 and never had to file against anybody else. inside six weeks em
1 Aug 2018 Chit Chat City — a sole proprietorship on rue saint-hubert in montreal ran a 3d city for eight years, where you drew your own avatar instead of picking one off a rack.
1 Aug 2018 Tindeck — an eu copyright directive that had not passed yet killed tindeck. savvas dimitriou had run free audio hosting since 2003, half a million tracks upload
2 Aug 2018 Brookstone — brookstone started in 1965 as pierre and mary de beaumont's mail-order operation, run for five hundred dollars out of a berkshires farmhouse and adver
2 Aug 2018 Musical.ly — musical.ly launched in shanghai in 2014 as a fifteen-second lip-sync video app aimed at us teenagers. it hit two hundred million registered users by m
6 Aug 2018 RuneScape Classic — the original RuneScape, before RuneScape 2 (2004) and Old School RuneScape (2013) split the player base into three distinct games. classic ran for 17
6 Aug 2018 Project Wonderful — ryan north, the man who writes dinosaur comics, spent 2006 building the ad network he wished existed. you bid by the day for one specific box on one s
7 Aug 2018 FunOrb — funorb was jagex's casual-games portal for the runescape crowd, launched in february 2008 with a few dozen java titles like arcanists and armies of gi
7 Aug 2018 Dartium — "this version of dartium has expired" is the last thing most people ever saw from it. dartium was a chromium build with google's dart vm wired in, so
9 Aug 2018 EmuParadise — emuparadise pulled its entire rom and iso library on 9 august 2018, eighteen years after founder masj started it in march 2000. nintendo had just won
9 Aug 2018 Mobage West — mobage west was DeNA's attempt to take its japanese mobile-social gaming playbook to iphone and android in the west. the platform ran on the plus+ net
13 Aug 2018 Darkwarez.pl — on 13 august 2018 a polish warez forum holding two and a half million registered accounts went dark in the middle of a civil case, taking its file hos
16 Aug 2018 Redcore — on 15 august 2018 redcore announced a series c of 250 million yuan and described itself as the first fully homegrown chinese browser, engine included.
20 Aug 2018 Google Goggles — google goggles was the moment your phone camera became a search box. you pointed it at a landmark, a barcode, a wine label, a page of text, and goggle
20 Aug 2018 Highrise — highrise was 37signals's small-shop CRM. it launched on 20 march 2007 as the third product after basecamp and backpack. it was spun off as its own com
21 Aug 2018 MixBit — the two people who built youtube tried to build it again, smaller and stranger, and this time almost nobody showed up. mixbit was a good idea about re
27 Aug 2018 Shoes of Prey — jodie fox wanted a pair of shoes that did not exist. in 2009 she and two co-founders built a web tool that let anyone draw their own, with a factory b
28 Aug 2018 Tez — google's payments app for india, built on the country's own instant transfer rails instead of on card networks. its one real invention was cash mode,
30 Aug 2018 Snapcash — snapcash was the moment snapchat decided it wanted to be venmo. square ran the rails, snap ran the UX, the two carried it for four years. when venmo h
30 Aug 2018 DaWanda — dawanda was germany's etsy, a berlin marketplace where people sold handmade and one-off things to a couple of million buyers across the german-speakin
30 Aug 2018 Phase One Media Pro — on 30 august 2018 phase one stopped selling media pro and pointed everybody at capture one instead. the program had been a mac shareware gallery calle
30 Aug 2018 P3P — the w3c obsoleted p3p on 30 august 2018, noting that fewer than six percent of the ten thousand busiest websites still published one and that no brows
31 Aug 2018 Spolužáci.cz — a school-only social network that existed for 19 years on a single premise: find the people you sat next to in primary school. czech-speakers used it
31 Aug 2018 GameFly Streaming — gamefly streaming was the second life of a dvd-by-mail rental company. it launched in april 2015 on amazon fire tv, then expanded to samsung smart tvs
31 Aug 2018 FORA.tv — brian gruber had been the first marketing director at c-span, and in 2005 he set out to do for the lecture hall what c-span did for congress. fora.tv
31 Aug 2018 Tokimeki Restaurant☆☆☆ — the band finished its fifth anniversary summer tour on 26 august 2018. the game those six characters had been invented for was switched off five days
Sep 2018 Racked — racked was the shopping-and-retail blog that came out of the curbed network. lockhart steele started it in new york in 2007, added la and san francisc
1 Sep 2018 PenToy — a notice went up on the front page on 31 july 2018 giving the site one month, and the reason printed on it was resource integration. pentoy had run si
Sep 2018 Dollz Mania — the gifs are still there. every html page on the site answered 403 by april 2019, while the doll images they used to sit on kept returning 200 to anyo
4 Sep 2018 Theranos — theranos was a blood-test startup that for a while was the most valuable private healthcare company in america. it claimed to run hundreds of tests fr
5 Sep 2018 Conkeror — shawn betts had already written a window manager with no mouse in it. conkeror was the same idea pointed at the web: emacs key bindings, plus numbered
11 Sep 2018 Terrarium TV — nitroxenon shut it down himself, which almost never happens in this category. no court order was published and no studio claimed the kill. the develop
14 Sep 2018 LawBreakers — cliff bleszinski left epic games in 2012 and came back with boss key productions in 2014 to build lawbreakers, a zero-gravity hero shooter that shippe
14 Sep 2018 Airware — jonathan downey was the son of two pilots and he raised a hundred and eighteen million dollars from kleiner perkins and caterpillar to put an operatin
Sep 2018 QQ Pet — qq pet lived in the corner of the qq instant messenger. you fed it, played with it, sent it to school, watched it grow. it was tencent's tamagotchi in
15 Sep 2018 Thunderclap — thunderclap sold a single trick. you lent it your twitter or facebook account, it collected pledges until a campaign hit its target, and at the appoin
17 Sep 2018 Demonoid — the semi-private bittorrent tracker that ran on invite codes and strict ratio enforcement, with a forum culture more careful than the pirate bay's. it
18 Sep 2018 Capcom Vancouver — 158 people lost their jobs on 18 september 2018, when capcom closed the only development studio it had outside japan. the building had opened in burna
18 Sep 2018 OpenLava — ibm's lawyers won. on 18 september 2018 a us court handed ibm a permanent injunction against teraproc, and a free job scheduler that research sites ha
18 Sep 2018 Excite Mail (Japan) — the search inside the mailbox broke on 28 october 2016 and the company said there was no prospect of restarting it. it never did. japan's excite ran i
21 Sep 2018 Telltale Games — telltale was founded in july 2004 by three former lucasarts adventure-game devs in san rafael, california. the walking dead season one in 2012 turned
25 Sep 2018 Java Web Start — java web start shipped with java 2 standard edition 1.4 in march 2001. it defined a small xml file called a .jnlp that a web page could link to. when
25 Sep 2018 JavaFX — javafx shipped as javafx 1.0 in december 2008 under sun microsystems, with its own javafx script language and a promise to make rich java client apps
25 Sep 2018 Niconico Shoseki (ニコニコ書籍) — kawakami nobuo stood on a stage with kadokawa tsuguhiko on 8 november 2011 and said niconico had no intention of building a sales platform, only of ad
Sep 2018 Adobe Edge Inspect — adobe edge inspect was a desktop and mobile pair that let a web designer push the same url to a phone, a tablet, and a laptop at the same time and wat
30 Sep 2018 Apple iPhoto Books — apple iphoto books was the photo-book printing service apple ran out of iphoto and then photos for sixteen years. you would lay out a hardcover album
30 Sep 2018 Curators of Sweden — in december 2011 the swedish institute and visitsweden handed the @sweden account to an ordinary person for a week, then to another one the week after
1 Oct 2018 Yam Tianku — yam tianku was where a lot of taiwan kept its blogs after the first wave of hosts, a free service with unlimited photo albums bolted onto one of the c
1 Oct 2018 Everyplay — unity bought everyplay in 2014 to turn gameplay video into a checkbox in the build settings, then switched the hosting off four years later with 38 mi
1 Oct 2018 TF2 Outpost — 2011 was the year valve made team fortress 2 free and the hats became the actual economy. outpost was where you posted what you had against what you w
2 Oct 2018 SuperSU — every rooted android phone needed something standing between apps and the su binary, deciding which ones got to be root and which got a denial. from m
10 Oct 2018 Astro (email app) — slack announced its biggest acquisition to that point on 24 september 2018 and switched the acquired product off sixteen days later. astro was an emai
13 Oct 2018 Myo — myo was a gesture-control armband from thalmic labs, a startup in kitchener, ontario. it read the faint electrical signals your forearm muscles make w
13 Oct 2018 Space Soldiers — five players published a statement on 13 october 2018 saying their long term plans no longer matched the organization's, and by the end of that day th
16 Oct 2018 DramaFever — dramafever opened in august 2009 as the legal way to watch korean television with subtitles, built for an audience that had been getting the same epis
16 Oct 2018 Google News & Weather — 8 october 2018 was supposed to be the end. the app went dark, came back on the ninth as though somebody had noticed, and was switched off again on the
18 Oct 2018 Path — the social network with a 50-friend cap. founded by an early facebook employee. the pitch was that big networks are exhausting and small networks are
19 Oct 2018 Super Deluxe — super deluxe was turner broadcasting building an internet comedy network twice, ten years apart, and shutting it down both times. the first one launch
19 Oct 2018 Lenny Letter — the announcement came on 18 october 2018 and the final issue went out the following day. lenny letter had run three years as an emailed magazine, reac
22 Oct 2018 CrashPlan for Home — crashplan for home was code42's consumer cloud backup product, launched in 2007 out of minneapolis. the differentiator was the free tier, which let us
22 Oct 2018 DragonDictate — nine thousand dollars in march 1990 bought a copy of dragondictate and a headset microphone, and in return you had to talk like a machine, leaving a g
24 Oct 2018 Just Survive — daybreak put h1z1 on steam early access in january 2015 and sold a million copies in two months. in 2016 it cut the game in half, sending the battle r
29 Oct 2018 Gundam Conquest — most mobile card games solve their aging problem by printing bigger numbers. gundam conquest spent five years refusing to. machines were designed to s
31 Oct 2018 Kuri — kuri was a mayfield robotics home robot. wheels and eye-cameras with no arms, a vocabulary of burbles instead of words. unveiled at ces 2017 as the cu
Nov 2018 WarCry Network — warcry went up on 21 may 1999 as a portal for a kind of game that did not yet have a settled name, and spent nineteen years running news and reference
Nov 2018 Sonic Jump Fever — sega's british mobile studio shipped this on 10 july 2014 as the follow-up to sonic jump, a vertical climber you steered by tilting the phone. it pass
5 Nov 2018 ScrappleFace — "axis of weasels" was written on a blog run by one man in pennsylvania in january 2003, and within weeks it was in the wall street journal and in aust
6 Nov 2018 Defy Media — defy was the holding company nobody outside the youtube creator world could keep straight. it owned smosh, clevver, screen junkies, the escapist, and
6 Nov 2018 Break.com — break started in 1998 as big-boys.com, a humor site for american men aged eighteen to thirty-five, comedy clips and flash games and stunt videos. it r
6 Nov 2018 Gurl.com — three graduate students at nyu built it in 1996 as a thesis project and it turned into the place american teenage girls went to read the things print
8 Nov 2018 Findx — in november 2018 a small Danish company gave up on the hardest and most expensive part of search, which is having an index of your own. findx had craw
14 Nov 2018 2 Dope Queens — jessica williams and phoebe robinson taped it at union hall in brooklyn, two hours at a time, and wnyc cut each night down to about an hour. it went t
15 Nov 2018 inthemix — two people in sydney started putting up photographs from club nights in 1999 and the forum that grew around the photographs became the place australia
16 Nov 2018 Quizzle — one of the first american sites to hand out a credit score without charging for it, launched in 2008 out of dan gilbert's group of companies, the same
16 Nov 2018 Google Contact Lens — brian otis announced the lens on google's blog in january 2014 and shelved it himself, as verily's chief technical officer, in november 2018. between
18 Nov 2018 Fine Uploader — eight thousand github stars did not produce a second maintainer. andris valums wrote the original upload library in 2010, a wisconsin company called w
20 Nov 2018 MatahariMall — mataharimall was lippo group's half-billion-dollar attempt to build the alibaba of indonesia, an everything-store marketplace launched in 2015 with a
20 Nov 2018 Marumaru — marumaru opened in june 2013 and became the biggest illegal manga site in south korea, carrying links to around 42,000 translated japanese works and d
21 Nov 2018 Xbox SmartGlass — the second-screen app that microsoft shipped in 2012 as the answer to what your phone should do while the xbox was on. it turned an ios or android or
27 Nov 2018 Seatwave — ticketmaster bought seatwave's operating assets in november 2014 and switched the brand off four years later, on the same day it switched off get me i
28 Nov 2018 WildStar — wildstar was carbine studios' science-fantasy mmo for ncsoft, shipped on june 3, 2014 with a subscription model and a sharp art style. the subscriber
28 Nov 2018 CeBIT — cebit began in 1970 as the office-technology hall of the hannover fair and was cut loose as its own show in 1986, at which point it became the week ev
29 Nov 2018 FilmStruck — filmstruck was the streaming service for people who wanted to watch old hollywood, foreign cinema, and the criterion catalog in one place. it ran for
30 Nov 2018 Rookie — rookie was an online magazine for teenage girls that tavi gevinson started in 2011 when she was fifteen, already famous from her style-rookie blog. it
30 Nov 2018 NetEase Blog — netease opened its blog service on 1 september 2006, in the years when a chinese portal without one looked unserious. it announced the end on 20 augus
30 Nov 2018 Kudzu.com — a newspaper company built a review site. cox enterprises launched kudzu in atlanta in june 2005, named after the vine that grows over everything in th
30 Nov 2018 Plex Cloud — 26 september 2016, and the pitch was that you could finally turn the old box in the corner off. plex would run your server for you and read the files
30 Nov 2018 Shadowrun Chronicles: Boston Lockdown — six thousand and three people put $558,863 into a shadowrun mmo in august 2012. what shipped in april 2015 was a turn-based tactics game that could no
30 Nov 2018 Pictlogica Final Fantasy — the grid was five squares by five, and each row belonged to a character you had put in your party. solve a row and that character walked up into the b
Dec 2018 Ampergram — ampergram turned instagram's hashtag firehose into a typographer's parts bin. you tagged a photo of a letter you found in the world with #ampergram an
Dec 2018 HighBeam Research — patrick spain sold hoover's, bought elibrary and encyclopedia.com off tucows, and in august 2002 turned the pile into a subscription archive. around e
Dec 2018 JRockit — a java virtual machine written by students out of stockholm that was faster than sun's on server workloads, mostly by refusing to interpret anything.
Dec 2018 DealDey — dealdey was nigeria's groupon, founded in 2011 by sim shagaya and built on the same promise as every other daily-deals company of that decade. it rais
1 Dec 2018 Guitar Hero Live — activision's fix for a genre it had already worn out was to stop selling songs and start broadcasting them. guitar hero live shipped in october 2015 w
1 Dec 2018 Extrasolar — nine hundred dollars a month was the running cost of an imaginary planet. extrasolar gave you a rover on epsilon prime and a camera to point, and the
10 Dec 2018 Aviary — aviary was the photo editor inside other apps. tap edit on flickr or twitter around 2014 and the surface underneath was aviary's. adobe bought the com
10 Dec 2018 Infinity Blade — infinity blade was the game that proved an iphone could run unreal engine 3, made by twelve people at chair entertainment and released on 9 december 2
11 Dec 2018 Firefox Live Bookmarks — 0.01 percent of firefox sessions were still touching feed previews when mozilla decided to pull the whole subsystem out. live bookmarks had shipped in
12 Dec 2018 niconicoVR — thirteen thousand eight hundred yen bought a plastic shell with two lenses in it, and a galaxy s6 went in the front. that was the price of admission t
13 Dec 2018 Apple Music Connect — connect was the social tab inside Apple Music when the service launched in June 2015. the idea was that artists would post photos, videos, lyric draft
Dec 2018 Layar — layar was the june 2009 amsterdam augmented-reality browser founded by raimo van der klein with claire boonstra and maarten lens-fitzgerald. the app l
14 Dec 2018 Babble.com — the couple who built nerve.com, an internet sex magazine for people who read, had a baby and built a parenting magazine next. babble launched in decem
16 Dec 2018 Cydia — jay freeman, the developer known as saurik, shipped cydia in february 2008 as a graphical front end to apt for jailbroken iphones and ipod touches. th
16 Dec 2018 Super Best Friends Play — on sunday 16 december 2018 a video called "super best friends (final)" went up, and woolie madden's segment gave the reason in one line: matt and pat
19 Dec 2018 AKB48 Stage Fighter — yuko oshima won the first three center elections in a row, and the prizes landed outside the software: a television commercial and a stage at the akb4
20 Dec 2018 Topix — topix was the comment section for every american small town. rich skrenta and his open-directory-project veterans launched it in 2002 as a news aggreg
20 Dec 2018 Club Penguin Island — disney closed a twelve year old virtual world with a lot of childhoods inside it and replaced it, the same week, with a mobile game built in unity. th
21 Dec 2018 Tipeez — tipeez opened on 15 december 2009 as the first turkish web portal built for children and teenagers, a licensed local edition of the israeli tweegee ne
22 Dec 2018 Call of Duty: Heroes — on 22 december 2018 the servers stopped answering and a call of duty game became unopenable on every phone that still had it installed. heroes arrived
25 Dec 2018 World of Speed — announced in february 2014 and not playable until august 2017, by which point the studio that announced it had moved on and saber interactive was fini
26 Dec 2018 Zhengtu Online — shi yuzhu built a game in shanghai that cost nothing to enter and then charged for everything inside it. zhengtu went into open beta in november 2005
27 Dec 2018 Torrents.md — 270,000 registered members in a country of under three million people, and in december 2018 the volunteers running it decided they had finished the jo
28 Dec 2018 BOLT! Super 4G — pt internux launched bolt on 14 november 2013 and sold indonesia its first 4g connection, a modem you bought once for a network that only reached jaka
28 Dec 2018 NexTag — nextag opened in may 1999 as a place to haggle with sellers over the price of a computer, then turned into a price comparison engine, which for about
28 Dec 2018 OSCAR protocol — aol built it to carry aim in 1997 and then spent a decade defending it, locking out microsoft and trillian and anyone else who tried to sign in with s
31 Dec 2018 CoveritLive — coveritlive was the live-blogging widget every news site embedded for years to cover apple keynotes and election nights. founded in toronto in 2007 an
2018 Hi5 — the social network that was massive in turkey from 2005 to 2009. before Facebook localized to turkish and took the audience, Hi5 was where every turki
2018 Skylanders — toys for bob shipped skylanders spyro's adventure in october 2011 with a portable game console accessory, a plastic spyro figurine, and a portal-of-po
2018 Voilà — the french web portal and search engine that was the default homepage for a generation of french users in the late 1990s and early 2000s. owned by Fra
2018 Kaixin001 — kaixin001.com launched march 2008 in beijing, targeting the chinese urban white-collar 20-something demographic that renren did not own. it ran on soc
2018 Google Search Appliance — the google search appliance was a literal yellow 1u rack server that ran google search inside a company's own data center. it shipped in 2002 on rebad
2018 Wikipedia Zero — wikipedia zero was a wikimedia foundation program that paid nothing and asked mobile operators to waive the data charges on wikipedia. it started in m
31 Dec 2018 WiBro — korea set aside a hundred megahertz of spectrum for it in february 2002 and had commercial service running by june 2006, which was years ahead of lte
31 Dec 2018 Edline — blackboard bought a school portal in 2011 and switched it off on the last day of 2018, having renamed it blackboard engage somewhere in the middle. fo
31 Dec 2018 Macaw — invision bought the people who made macaw in january 2016 and the program stopped changing that same month. it kept its download link for almost three
31 Dec 2018 Gourmet Pass (グルメパス) — 390 yen a month bought you two other companies' paid tiers. the restaurant coupons were 食べログ's and the recipes were クックパッド's, and the only thing kddi

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2017 DragThing — dragthing was the dock for mac users who needed more than the dock. james thomson wrote it in 1995, kept it alive through every mac os transition, and
2017 LatinMail — latinmail was the spanish-language free webmail starmedia launched in 1997 from manhattan. it beat gmail to market by seven years and the spanish-lang
2017 blinkx — blinkx launched in 2004 out of cambridge and san francisco, spun out of the search company autonomy by suranga chandratillake. its trick was searching
2017 iloveschool — iloveschool was korea's school-reunion craze, a site that let you type in your school and the years you went and instantly find everyone else who did
1 Jan 2017 Makeoutclub — makeoutclub was arguably the first real social network, a 1999 site for the emo and hardcore kids who wanted profile pages with their photo and their
2017 Screenhero — a screen sharing tool built for two people working on the same code at once, where both cursors were live and either person could click and type on th
2017 UppTalk (Yuilop) — yuilop was a free-calling and free-texting app out of barcelona, one of the wave of services that tried to make sms and phone minutes obsolete before
2017 WIEM Encyklopedia — poland's national encyclopedia lived on poland's national portal, and for most of nineteen years it was free. it came off a printed set and went onlin
2017 Planet Poker — on 1 january 1998 a three-six hold'em game went live and took a five percent rake, and that is the first hand of real-money online poker anyone can po
2017 Taltopia — los angeles, february 2008: two recent graduates took 800,000 dollars from an angel investor and renamed their site from famesource to taltopia. the i
2017 Marketleap — acxiom had no commercial reason to keep marketleap's tools running and kept them running anyway, for about eleven years, under a line on the front pag
Jan 2017 Bundlr — coimbra is where this one was built, by two founders with fifteen thousand euros of portuguese seed money and an idea worth more than the money it got
2 Jan 2017 Musicovery — musicovery was a french music-discovery service built around a 2D mood pad. you clicked a point between calm and energetic and between dark and positi
4 Jan 2017 Czat.onet.pl — onet closed its chat on 4 january 2017 and never said why. the warning went out in december, the tab came off the portal homepage, and the address sta
9 Jan 2017 Agnitum Outpost Firewall — a personal firewall out of st. petersburg that spent a decade at the top of the only scoreboard that mattered, matousec's proactive security challenge
9 Jan 2017 GameStick — a games console the size of a usb stick, with a bluetooth controller that the console slid into for storage, funded by 5,600 people on kickstarter in
10 Jan 2017 Windows Live Mail — the email client microsoft shipped after they pulled outlook express from vista. lived inside the windows live essentials suite from 2007 to 2017. sup
10 Jan 2017 Windows Live Photo Gallery — microsoft's free desktop photo organizer. bundled with vista, offered as a separate download for windows 7 and 8. the face tagging worked surprisingly
10 Jan 2017 Windows Live Writer — windows live writer was the desktop blog editor microsoft kept shipping for ten years. wysiwyg editor with image and table support, publishing to blog
10 Jan 2017 Windows Movie Maker — windows movie maker shipped on millennium edition in 2000 and turned every kid with a webcam into an editor. the title-card font was a generation's fi
10 Jan 2017 Windows Essentials — for about a decade the last step of setting up a windows machine was going back to microsoft to download the parts microsoft had taken out of windows.
11 Jan 2017 Marvel Super Hero Squad Online — the friendly chibi wing of the marvel license. a browser mmo for kids in the exact window when browser mmos for kids were losing the whole audience to
11 Jan 2017 PORT.ro — port.ro went online in june 1996 and spent twenty years being the place romanians checked to find out what was on. it carried the grid for 243 televis
12 Jan 2017 Lily Camera — you were supposed to throw it in the air and it would follow you and film. the promo video showed it doing exactly that. the promo video was shot on a
12 Jan 2017 Guerrilla Cambridge — in cambridge, england, one sony studio worked for nineteen years under four names. it began on 15 july 1997 as the bought-out games division of cyberl
Jan 2017 OneCoin — onecoin was not a cryptocurrency. it was a multi-level marketing sales scheme built by ruja ignatova and sebastian greenwood in sofia bulgaria in 2014
15 Jan 2017 Ekoloko — two israeli businessmen, one out of a voip company and one out of a chocolate chain, opened a virtual world for children in october 2008 and named the
17 Jan 2017 Vine — six seconds. looping video. you opened the app, watched a clip, it played again, you watched it again, you laughed, you swiped. it produced an entire
23 Jan 2017 iFolder.ru — dmitry medvedev was president of russia when moscow police switched off a file host, and two days later his interior minister was told to check whethe
25 Jan 2017 Khabaristan Times — pakistan's news satire desk, run from 2014 by two journalists, pointed most of its jokes at the military and at religious hardliners. on 25 january 20
27 Jan 2017 Macromedia Director — director was the authoring tool of the cd-rom decade. macromind shipped it as videoworks on the macintosh in 1985 and renamed it director two years la
27 Jan 2017 Shoes.com — sean clark started shoeme.ca out of a vancouver basement in 2012 because zappos had left canada, buying shoes at retail to fill the first orders and r
29 Jan 2017 Fring — fring was an early mobile voip and video chat app founded in tel aviv in 2006. it ran on symbian, blackberry, and later iphone and android, and its tr
30 Jan 2017 Parse — the backend you did not have to build. parse let a mobile developer skip the servers and ship the app, with data storage and push notifications handle
31 Jan 2017 Asheron's Call — asheron's call was the third pillar of the founding mmo era, released november 2, 1999 by turbine entertainment under microsoft publishing, ten months
31 Jan 2017 Beme — matt hackett and casey neistat shipped beme in july 2015. the app made unedited four-second video clips that uploaded to your followers immediately, w
31 Jan 2017 Wii U — nintendo shipped a console with a screen built into the controller. the marketing made it sound like an accessory and the buying public agreed. 13.56
31 Jan 2017 Asheron's Call 2 — asheron's call 2 was the sequel that died, came back, and then died again. turbine launched it in november 2002 as the followup to the original ashero
31 Jan 2017 Presto — foxtel built presto in 2014 to defend australian pay television against streaming, sold half of it to seven west media, then bought that half back and
31 Jan 2017 humyo — a decommissioned bullion vault held the disk arrays, and that was the detail everybody repeated about humyo while it was alive. the offer was ten giga
Jan 2017 OpenStudy — a georgia tech professor and an emory dean, married to each other, built a place where a student anywhere could ask a question and have it answered by
31 Jan 2017 Triggertrap — £290,386 came in for a modular camera trigger called ada, against a £50,000 goal, and no ada was ever built. haje jan kamps told the backers on 2 marc
1 Feb 2017 Adobe Contribute — macromedia contribute shipped on 3 december 2002 as a wysiwyg page editor built on the dreamweaver mx engine for non developers who needed to update a
1 Feb 2017 Epuls.pl — epuls was where polish teenagers lived online before facebook arrived, a social network built on public diaries and clubs, with a points currency call
Feb 2017 Modlife — modlife was the software tom delonge built after watching napster take the album business away from his own band. it went into beta in november 2007 a
1 Feb 2017 XO Communications — xo communications was four companies wearing one name. it started as nextlink in the pacific northwest and absorbed concentric network and then allegi
Feb 2017 Quixey — around $130 million went into the proposition that apps needed their own search engine, and for a few years that was a serious question rather than a
Feb 2017 Oktogo — a polish investment fund took control in 2015 and decided in early 2016 that it would rather find a buyer than put in more money, and no buyer turned
Feb 2017 Map of Russian Science — four hundred and fifty million roubles of ministry money went into a database that decided the lebedev physical institute worked on horticulture, pedi
1 Feb 2017 Xombrero — a browser written by openbsd people for openbsd people, whose entire pitch was that firefox was too big to trust and this thing was two hundred kiloby
1 Feb 2017 OKNOtizie — salvatore sanfilippo built a social bookmarking site called segnalo in late 2005, and oknotizie came out of it the following year as the italian digg.
2 Feb 2017 Rounds — rounds was a video-first social app out of tel aviv, built so that a video call was a place you did things together rather than just talked. you could
6 Feb 2017 Microsoft Photosynth — photosynth launched on august 20 2008 from microsoft live labs as the consumer version of noah snavely's phd work on structure-from-motion at the univ
Feb 2017 DivxPlanet (Altyazı.org) — divxplanet was the turkish subtitle archive, started in 2004 and named after the codec that made a film fit on a cd. volunteers translated films and s
11 Feb 2017 SIGAINT — nobody ever said what happened. the service answered one week in february 2017 and did not answer the next, and the administrators who had given press
13 Feb 2017 Google Gesture Search — you scrawled a letter on the screen with one finger and the phone pulled up the contact, app or track that matched, then you kept scrawling until the
Feb 2017 Google Now — google now's whole pitch was that you didn't ask it anything. it watched your gmail, your calendar, your search history, your location, and pushed a c
15 Feb 2017 AppGratis — apple pulled appgratis off the app store on 7 april 2013, citing two review guidelines, and a french company that had just raised ten million euros lo
17 Feb 2017 Beepi — beepi was a peer-to-peer used car marketplace in the san francisco bay area, founded by ale resnik and owen savir in 2013 after resnik bought a used c
18 Feb 2017 Daum tvPot — daum tvpot launched in 2006 as the video upload and streaming service of daum, then south korea's number-two web portal. it covered user uploads, live
20 Feb 2017 IMDb message boards — the imdb message boards were the comment forums attached to every title and person page on imdb. they ran from the early 2000s through february 20, 20
20 Feb 2017 EZGenerator — image-line in ghent paid its bills with fruity loops and built a website tool for its own sites on the side, then put it on sale in 2005. twelve years
21 Feb 2017 Landmark — landmark was sony online entertainment's voxel building sandbox, first pitched in august 2013 as everquest next landmark, an in-engine content creatio
21 Feb 2017 The WWW Virtual Library — geneva, 1991: tim berners-lee kept a page of links to every new web server somebody emailed him about. that page became the virtual library, the first
23 Feb 2017 Stayzilla — stayzilla was the indian homestay marketplace yogendra vasupal and rupal yogendra ran out of chennai. the parent company inasra technologies began in
24 Feb 2017 AOL Lifestream — aol lifestream was a feed aggregator that lived inside aol desktop after bebo had stopped being interesting. it pulled in updates from twitter and you
24 Feb 2017 HomeHero — a federal labor rule finished this one. an appeals court upheld the us department of labor's home care rule in 2015 and home aides became entitled to
27 Feb 2017 VirtualTourist — virtualtourist was a travel community that peaked in the late 2000s with 1.3 million members and 3.7 million photos. two karlsruhe students registered
Feb 2017 Streetlife — matt boyes launched streetlife in march 2011 as a neighborhood-keyed social network for the uk, built after a 2008 london burglary made him want a way
1 Mar 2017 Ampya — ampya was a television company's attempt at spotify, launched in june 2013 with twenty million tracks and a wall of music videos its rivals had not bo
1 Mar 2017 Igloo — $199 for the receiver and $24.99 for thirty days of eleven channels, no contract and no installer on your roof. sky and tvnz built igloo in 2012 for t
Mar 2017 Spark City World — ottawa built a flash city for eleven-year-old girls and kept it running for eight years. fuel industries had the miniclip deal and an ios port, and no
1 Mar 2017 Fedora Hosted — late 2007 to march 2017, and github was only half the reason. fedora infrastructure worked out in early 2016 that it could not afford to run two forge
2 Mar 2017 TextWrangler — textwrangler was the free mac plain-text editor that people kept open in a second tab while bbedit sat in another. bare bones ran it for fourteen year
3 Mar 2017 GhostTunes — garth brooks spent eleven years refusing to put his catalog on itunes, because itunes sold songs one at a time and he sold albums. in 2014 he built hi
6 Mar 2017 Popular Photography — popular photography was the largest-circulation us camera monthly for most of its eighty-year life, founded by ziff-davis in may 1937 and sold to bonn
7 Mar 2017 RefME — chegg paid 1.8 million dollars in december 2016 for the assets of a london startup that had raised 5 million and signed up more than a million student
8 Mar 2017 RadioShack — radioshack started in 1921 in boston as a marine-radio supply shop and peaked at over 8,000 stores in 1999 with a house-brand catalog covering audio g
8 Mar 2017 Jelly — biz stone left twitter and built jelly with ben finkel as a photo-based question-and-answer app for your social graph. it launched on 7 january 2014,
8 Mar 2017 IceRocket — icerocket launched in april 2004 as a search engine for blogs, in the window when the thing google was worst at was telling you what had been written
8 Mar 2017 Positron — myk melez wanted what electron gave developers without shipping chromium to get it, so he started a runtime that would take an electron app and run it
15 Mar 2017 So.cl — microsoft made a social network. that sentence is most of the reason nobody remembers it. so.cl came out of a research lab, aimed at students, built a
16 Mar 2017 Curse Voice — curse voice opened its beta in may 2014 and had a million users inside seven days, because it did something ventrilo and teamspeak had never tried. it
17 Mar 2017 App.net — app.net launched on august 8, 2012 from dalton caldwell's mixed media labs, pitched as a paid twitter alternative with no ads. it crowdfunded $750,000
17 Mar 2017 DMOZ — dmoz was the volunteer attempt to keep the human-edited directory alive after yahoo's directory turned commercial. tens of thousands of editors classi
24 Mar 2017 SourceFed — youtube handed out money in 2012 to get people making channels, and philip defranco used his share to build a news show that did not need him in front
29 Mar 2017 Club Penguin — the virtual world for kids where you were a small flat penguin in a snowy multiplayer town. you waddled around. you played mini-games. you decorated y
29 Mar 2017 Zoomby.ru — zoomby opened on 19 may 2010 as russia's answer to the piracy problem, a free ad-funded site where you could watch russian television legally the day
29 Mar 2017 The Deck — jim coudal started it in early 2006 with jeffrey zeldman and 37signals, and daring fireball was the fourth site to join. the rule was one ad per page
30 Mar 2017 Mad Catz Interactive — a plastic guitar finished it. for almost thirty years mad catz sold the second controller, the one that came out of the drawer when somebody else want
30 Mar 2017 ソラテナ (Soratena) — three thousand au base stations got a weather sensor each, and kddi gave every one of them a cartoon character to speak for it. soratena opened as a t
31 Mar 2017 DSi Shop — dsi shop was the digital storefront baked into the nintendo dsi when the handheld launched in late 2008. you bought nintendo dsi points and spent them
Mar 2017 LivingSocial — livingsocial was a daily-deals site out of washington dc. amazon led a 175 million dollar round into it in 2010, and by 2011 the company was being tal
Mar 2017 Tribe.net — tribe was a 2003 social network out of san francisco, founded by paul martino and mark pincus alongside co-founder valerie syme as a hybrid between fr
31 Mar 2017 Revision3 — revision3 was the san francisco video network jay adelson, kevin rose and david prager started in april 2005 as a post-digg side project. the pitch wa
31 Mar 2017 ComicsAlliance — comicsalliance was a comics-culture site inside aol's editorial network from 2007 onward. laura hudson became editor in 2009 and shaped the site's voi
31 Mar 2017 Google Map Maker — for nine years google let volunteers draw the map. you added the road that was missing or traced a building off the satellite tile, and once a reviewe
31 Mar 2017 Autodesk 123D — autodesk sells CAD by the seat to people whose employer signs the purchase order. 123d was the opposite of that, a free suite aimed at anyone with a 3
31 Mar 2017 Cucumbertown — cucumbertown was a blogging platform built only for recipes, with templates that understood ingredients and a revenue split that gave writers between
31 Mar 2017 Demae Channel — nintendo and denyusha put a food delivery counter into the wii menu on 26 may 2009, free to download and japan only. you typed your address in once, p
31 Mar 2017 Kids goo — the shutdown notice was written twice. once in hiragana for the children, to tell them that キッズgoo had been going since 2001 and finished on the 31st
31 Mar 2017 UULA — 1.41 million people were paying 504 yen a month for it at the end of january 2015. two years later there were fewer than half that many and avex close
31 Mar 2017 BitSnoop — blocked by isps in britain from october 2013, and in italy as well. bitsnoop was a torrent search engine whose crawlers read hundreds of other sites a
31 Mar 2017 Flavors.me — moo.com bought flavors.me in 2012 and closed it in 2017 with a sentence about a change in strategic direction. the product was a single page carrying
31 Mar 2017 ULTRA SPEED — at two in the morning on 31 march 2017 softbank switched off the 1.5 gigahertz block and handed it to lte. the brand on it was ultra speed, a 42 megab
Apr 2017 Pono Player — neil young's high resolution portable audio player. the kickstarter raised $6.2 million in march 2014 and shipped the device to backers in october 201
Apr 2017 Kivvi.kz — kazakhstan got its own video site on 2 february 2009, launched as kiwi.kz with hosting from the national telephone company and traffic that cost its b
5 Apr 2017 Ubuntu Touch — ubuntu touch was canonical's bet that the same operating system could run on a phone and a desktop with the same package manager underneath. mark shut
8 Apr 2017 Whirled — whirled was a flash virtual world where almost nothing was made by the developer. players uploaded the avatars and built the rooms, then listed the re
11 Apr 2017 Windows Vista — windows vista released to manufacturing november 8, 2006 and shipped to consumers january 30, 2007 after five and a half years of development as longh
12 Apr 2017 Surprisingly Awesome — twenty three episodes argued that concrete and frequent flyer miles were more interesting than they looked, and the twenty fourth was alex blumberg ex
13 Apr 2017 Shogi RPG Tsumetsume Road — the japan shogi association signed off on this one and let its professionals be drawn as collectible spirits, which is a stranger endorsement than it
17 Apr 2017 Google Spaces — google spaces was an app for small group sharing built around chrome and youtube embeds. it launched on 16 may '16. google announced the shutdown on 1
19 Apr 2017 Diapers.com / Quidsi — marc lore and vinit bharara built diapers.com because amazon was not yet thinking about diapers in 2005. by 2010 amazon was thinking about diapers ext
20 Apr 2017 Plastc Card — plastc was a palo alto smart-card startup founded in 2012 by ryan marquis and mark stubbs. it opened pre-orders at $155 per card on 7 october 2014 and
24 Apr 2017 AllExperts — allexperts ran for over nineteen years on volunteers who answered strangers for free because they wanted to. you posted a question in a category and a
28 Apr 2017 Yik Yak — the anonymous location-based message board. you opened the app, you saw posts from users physically near you (within 1.5 miles). it was huge on US col
28 Apr 2017 Imhonet — imhonet opened in april 2007 as alexander dolgin's attempt to build one recommendation engine across every kind of culture at once. you rated things,
28 Apr 2017 java.net — sun opened it at javaone on june 11 2003 as the place where java projects would live in public, and for thirteen years the reference implementations a
30 Apr 2017 Bridj — bridj was the clever entry in the on-demand transit boom: instead of fixed routes it used an algorithm to place temporary stops wherever riders asked
30 Apr 2017 RoboVM — two acquisitions in six months is what killed it. niklas therning and henric müller built a compiler that turned java bytecode into native iphone code
30 Apr 2017 MathJax CDN — in its last measured month cdn.mathjax.org served 3.3 billion requests to 179 million people and shipped 70 terabytes of javascript, and every byte of
1 May 2017 MLKSHK — pronounced milkshake. you dragged an image into your browser and dropped it into a "shake", which was a topic group, and you commented with reaction i
May 2017 LeEco — leeco was a chinese consumer-electronics conglomerate founded by jia yueting in september 2011 around an internet TV business called LeTV. the brand p
1 May 2017 thesixtyone — james miao and samuel hsiung's gamified indie music discovery site, named after u.s. route 61 (the blues highway). alpha in january 2008 out of y comb
May 2017 Swyp Card — swyp was the qvivr programmable payment card from santa clara, opening pre-orders in 2014 for a device that stored every card in your wallet on one pi
May 2017 Azubu — azubu launched in 2012 on lars windhorst's theory that watching other people play video games was about to become a real market. he was right about th
May 2017 Style Code Live — thirty minutes live every weeknight at nine eastern, free to watch, with a strip of products under the video that changed as the hosts picked things u
1 May 2017 Ore Tower -Over Legend Endless Tower- — on 1 april 2017 the operator announced the game was closing, then had to post again to say this was not an april fool. the browser version went off at
2 May 2017 About.com — about.com was the human-edited topic-guides site that got eaten by google panda and its own scale. for ten years it sat on top of the search results f
2 May 2017 Maker Studios — maker was the largest youtube multi-channel network of the early 2010s, built on the idea that thousands of creators wanted a middleman between them a
3 May 2017 Al Jazeera Türk — qatar spent years and something like seventy five million dollars building a turkish-language newsroom that was supposed to end in a twenty four hour
3 May 2017 PKR.com — pkr was online poker rendered as a room you sat in. your avatar had a face and a wardrobe, and the camera could swing around the table while you folde
4 May 2017 Oculus Story Studio — facebook's in-house vr animation studio. fifty people in a building making short narrative films you could only watch with a rift on your head. they s
8 May 2017 Maple — maple was a new york city food delivery startup founded in april 2015 by caleb merkle and akshay navle, with a commissary kitchen in lower manhattan a
9 May 2017 CMIS — the promise was explicit and the people who made it said it out loud: do for enterprise content management what odbc did for databases in the 1990s, s
9 May 2017 Dukgo — the thing that killed it was the promise. duckduckgo would not add any anti-abuse feature that could compromise anonymity, so the abuse kept coming, s
10 May 2017 Sina UC — uc was built in 2002 by a small company in guizhou and got its opening when tencent closed free qq registration for the better part of a year. by nove
11 May 2017 WeeWorld — weeworld was a glasgow company that made cartoon avatars called weemees. mike kinsella and john mcguire founded it on march 20 2000. the actual reach
15 May 2017 FFFFOUND! — ffffound was an invite-only image bookmarking site built by tha ltd in tokyo under yugo nakamura, with yosuke abe and keita kitamura on development. i
15 May 2017 Asus ZenWatch — three watches in three years, then nothing. asus put the zenwatch on sale in november 2014 as the cheap way into android wear, a steel rectangle with
15 May 2017 Scanadu Scout — an fda rule about investigational devices is what finally switched it off. the scanadu scout was a white puck you held against your forehead to read y
15 May 2017 Kadira — arunoda susiripala built kadira alone in colombo and it ended up watching more than five thousand meteor deployments. he announced the shutdown on 30
17 May 2017 ExtraTorrent — extratorrent ran from 2006 to 17 may 2017 under a single anonymous administrator known as SaM. it sat in the top five torrent indexes globally for mos
17 May 2017 Megalia — megalia grew out of the mers gallery on dc inside in 2015, when women answering a wave of abuse started copying the insults back with the genders swap
2017 Ikbis — amman had the arab world's first video and photo sharing site and it opened about eighteen months after youtube did, which for a regional web in 2006
22 May 2017 Minions Paradise — phil the minion sinks the cruise ship in the first thirty seconds and everybody washes up on an empty island. that was the premise, and turning the is
24 May 2017 Gna! — a code forge for free software, started in january 2004 by loïc dachary and a group of former gnu savannah maintainers who had fallen out with the fre
24 May 2017 Monstermob — three profit warnings in a single year took ninety percent off monstermob's share price, and the lancaster company that had floated on aim as a ringto
25 May 2017 Eureqa — michael schmidt was a cornell graduate student when he pointed a genetic algorithm at motion capture data from a swinging double pendulum and it came
26 May 2017 Sprig — sprig cooked meals in its own san francisco commissary kitchen and delivered them by car within fifteen minutes of the order. gagan biyani founded the
28 May 2017 Phanfare — phanfare was a subscription-only photo and video storage service launched in november 2004 by andrew erlichson and mark heinrich. it targeted the pros
30 May 2017 Playfire — playfire was a social network for serious gamers, built in london in 2007. it plugged into xbox live and steam and pulled in your achievements and pla
30 May 2017 Ongaku Meter (音楽メーター) — a site opened in japan in 2008 where readers logged the books they finished, and it worked well enough that it is still running in 2026 with tens of m
May 2017 Guvera — guvera was an australian free music streaming service that ran on brand-sponsored channels instead of running ads against streams. it crossed ten mill
31 May 2017 muzie — a free artist page and an mp3 upload: that was the whole offer in 1999, and japanese amateur musicians took it for eighteen years. the site launched a
31 May 2017 BuyVIP — amazon bought buyvip in october 2010, eleven months before there was an amazon.es, and closed it in may 2017 saying the business still did not make mo
Jun 2017 Phhhoto — phhhoto was a brooklyn app that let you hold the shutter and get a five-frame loop, a little back-and-forth animation before instagram had one. it gre
Jun 2017 Recon Jet — a computer on your face, aimed at cyclists, priced like a bike component. the screen sat below your right eye and told you how fast you were going whi
1 Jun 2017 ZeroPC — san mateo, 2011: a company founded by the man behind eMachines and NComputing decided that the desktop should be a web page. zeropc gave you a start m
1 Jun 2017 Dikt.no — 77 percent of everything ever published on dikt.no was a poem, which is a statistic only a site built for exactly one purpose can produce. gunnar rola
1 Jun 2017 AgileZen — niki and nate kohari shipped agilezen in july 2009 and sold it to rally software nine months later, which is a fast exit by any standard and a very fa
Jun 2017 Demotivalo.net — hungary built its own demotivational poster site in 2010 and made it big fast: 200,000 facebook followers, a serious number in a language with thirtee
5 Jun 2017 SDCH — in september 2008 four google engineers sent the http working group a proposal for compressing the parts of a web page that repeat between responses,
6 Jun 2017 Steam Greenlight — steam greenlight opened on 30 august 2012 and handed the question of what got sold on steam to steam's own customers, who voted on submitted games unt
6 Jun 2017 SixXS — 38,393 people in 140 countries were still running sixxs tunnels in march 2017, which is the month pim van pelt and jeroen massar announced they were c
12 Jun 2017 Hello Sense — hello sense was a kickstarter-era bedside orb that tracked your sleep through a sound and light sensor on the nightstand plus a little pill you clippe
13 Jun 2017 Style.com — style.com was where the runway photographs lived. condé nast ran it from the fall of 2000 as the online side of vogue and w, and for fifteen years it
15 Jun 2017 Delicious / del.icio.us — the social bookmarking site with the goofy domain (del.icio.us, before domain hacks were normal). it invented social tagging at scale. yahoo bought it
15 Jun 2017 ReBirth RB-338 — propellerhead software put two roland tb-303 bass lines and a tr-808 drum machine on screen in 1997, wired together and running on an ordinary desktop
15 Jun 2017 pixiv Chat — december 2009, and pixiv handed its paying members a white canvas with a timer on it. anybody could walk into the room and draw on the same surface as
16 Jun 2017 Intel Edison — intel told its purchasing channel first. pcn115579-00 went up on a document server on 16 june 2017, set last orders at 16 september and last shipments
18 Jun 2017 Scrub The Web — twenty one years of taking url submissions ended with a line on the front page saying the domain was for sale and the engine was not. scrub the web ca
20 Jun 2017 grenouille.com — grenouille started in november 2000 as a group of angry wanadoo cable customers who stopped arguing with their isp and wrote software to measure the l
23 Jun 2017 Imzy — imzy was a community platform launched in april 2016 by dan mccomas, who had been reddit's product chief until july 2015. the pitch was a kinder alter
23 Jun 2017 Shut Up! Cartoons — one hundred million dollars went into youtube's original channel initiative in 2012, and smosh got one of the slots. shut up! cartoons opened on 30 ap
27 Jun 2017 T411 — t411 was what survived quebectorrent, a canadian tracker a court closed in 2008. part of the same team rebuilt it in europe with the torrents and the
27 Jun 2017 Sidewire — the founders wrote that they did not see enough usage to justify continuing to support the site, which is a blunter thing to publish than most compani
28 Jun 2017 Photobucket — the image host that ate forum signatures and myspace pages. you uploaded a photo and pasted the link into your signature. on 28 june 2017 photobucket
29 Jun 2017 Yahoo! Japan Translate — the shutdown notice said the role had been completed, which is an unusually plain thing for a company to write about its own product. yahoo! japan tra
29 Jun 2017 Moirai — you walk down into a cave and meet somebody holding a bloody knife. you ask them what they have done, they type an answer, and you decide whether to k
30 Jun 2017 Yahoo News Digest — yahoo news digest opened twice a day, with eight summarized stories at 8am and another eight at 6pm. it won the 2014 apple design award. the algorithm
Jun 2017 Tilt — tilt was the social-payments app that thought venmo plus kickstarter was a single product. it raised more than sixty million dollars on that theory. w
30 Jun 2017 Markafoni — markafoni was turkey's flash-sale fashion site, founded in 2008 by sina afra in istanbul. the south african media group naspers took a stake in 2011 a
30 Jun 2017 Terra Networks — telefónica spun terra up in 1999 as a dot-com play to be the aol of the spanish-speaking web. it went public near the top of the mania and got fully s
30 Jun 2017 My Coke Rewards — coca-cola started printing codes under bottle caps and inside cardboard packaging on 20 february 2006, and typing them into mycokerewards.com turned t
30 Jun 2017 RTL II You — a german broadcaster decided in 2016 that the fourteen to twenty-five audience had stopped turning the television on and could be met on the web inste
30 Jun 2017 ENSOKU — eleven languages, run out of one japanese office by a company with one product. that is the whole reason this site is remembered at all. shiftone open
30 Jun 2017 Eroshare — for ten years eroshare was where people put adult photos and video that no general-purpose host would accept, and by 2017 it was the default file stor
30 Jun 2017 JWN (全国新聞ニュース網) — seven companies published eight papers between them, and the arithmetic worked because the tokyo shimbun comes off the chunichi's tokyo presses. they
30 Jun 2017 DMMブログ — nobody could sign up. for twelve years dmm ran a blog service whose writers were cast rather than registered, av performers plus the women working its
Jul 2017 Harvard Graphics — harvard graphics was the dos presentation tool that sat in every corporate slide deck before powerpoint arrived. software publishing corporation shipp
1 Jul 2017 Xbox Fitness — microsoft's biggest bet on the Kinect 2.0 sensor as a fitness camera. an xbox one launch title in november 2013 that read your heart rate off skin-ton
Jul 2017 Russian Anonymous Marketplace — ramp opened in september 2012, a year and a half after silk road, and it was still running when every market that had copied silk road was gone. it su
1 Jul 2017 rlogin — in 1983 berkeley shipped a command that logged you into another machine by having your machine vouch for you, and for a decade that was simply how peo
2 Jul 2017 Clammr — twenty-four seconds was the whole product. clammr let you drag a window across a podcast waveform, grab the good part, and post it somewhere people wo
4 Jul 2017 Pordede — on 4 july 2017 the pordede account database walked out the door and the site never came back up under its own name. for four years it had been where s
5 Jul 2017 AlphaBay — alphabay took the silk road model and industrialized it. by the middle of 2017 it carried roughly 200,000 users against 40,000 vendors, with somewhere
6 Jul 2017 Jawbone — jawbone shipped a bluetooth headset that cleaned up call audio with noise gating, then a jambox speaker that defined the portable bluetooth shape for
7 Jul 2017 Firefall — a free-to-play sci-fi mmo shooter that took six years to ship and less than three to run. red 5 studios burned through its money, fired the whole dev
7 Jul 2017 Clef — on 6 march 2017 clef gave itself three months to live, then quietly took one more. the login worked by holding your phone camera up to a pattern of ba
11 Jul 2017 Microsoft Visual SourceSafe — one tree software wrote sourcesafe and microsoft bought the company in 1994, shipping visual sourcesafe 3.1 in february 1995 as the version control th
11 Jul 2017 ProClarity — boise, idaho is not where business intelligence software is supposed to come from. knosys started there in 1995, renamed itself proclarity in 2001 aft
12 Jul 2017 Sony Dash — a firmware update on 12 july 2017 turned every connected sony dash into a flashing logo, and there was no way to decline it. the box had arrived at ce
19 Jul 2017 Hackpad — a fast collaborative editor that startups loved for the same reasons every etherpad fork gets loved: real-time cursors and plain text with just enough
20 Jul 2017 Hansa Market — hansa was the third largest market of its kind when the dutch national police took it off two german administrators in june 2017 and then kept it open
20 Jul 2017 The Iron Yard — $15.9 million bought the company behind the university of phoenix a 62 percent stake in a code school running out of greenville, south carolina. that
21 Jul 2017 Fightland — vice media took $450 million from tpg in june 2017 and cut about sixty jobs a month later. fightland went with them. for five years it had been the st
21 Jul 2017 Graphiq — kevin o'connor had already built doubleclick when he started findthebest in 2009 as a machine for comparing anything against anything. the database be
25 Jul 2017 BTC-e — btc-e ran for six years as the crypto exchange that did not ask questions. no kyc, no anti-money-laundering, russian ownership, headline low fees. on
25 Jul 2017 Clipfish — clipfish was germany's homegrown answer to youtube, launched by the broadcaster RTL in 2006. it leaned on music videos and clips from RTL's own castin
31 Jul 2017 Microsoft Word Flow Keyboard — word flow was microsoft's windows phone swipe keyboard, ported to iphone in april 2016 as a microsoft garage experiment. it lived for fifteen months,
31 Jul 2017 Pandora Australia — pandora spent its whole life fenced in by music licensing, and australia and new zealand were the only countries outside america it ever managed to op
31 Jul 2017 Ozlo — charles jolley left his job running platform at facebook, spent three years building an assistant that read four hundred thousand restaurant menus, an
1 Aug 2017 CinemaNow — cinemanow was a us video-on-demand service founded in 1999 by curt marvis and bruce eisen, one of the first internet movie storefronts to actually lic
Aug 2017 Bilddagboken — bilddagboken was the swedish photo-diary community founded in may 2004 by sebastian björkelid and joakim grönvall in gothenburg. it grew into the firs
Aug 2017 Gay.com — gay.com was a chat and personals site that for about a decade was the default place gay men in america met each other online. mark elderkin registered
1 Aug 2017 Toons.TV — rovio launched toons.tv on 17 february 2013 on an argument that made sense at the time. angry birds had passed 1.7 billion downloads, so the games wer
Aug 2017 Opera Coast — coast was opera answering a question none of the larger browser companies were asking, which was what a browser would look like if somebody had invent
1 Aug 2017 deltathree — on 14 march 1997 the company demonstrated a telephone conversation carried over the internet, which at the time was closer to a stunt than a product.
2 Aug 2017 All Night Nippon Mobile (オールナイトニッポンモバイル) — one hundred and five yen bought seven minutes of a radio personality talking, delivered to a japanese handset every wednesday. nippon broadcasting sta
4 Aug 2017 Facebook Lifestage — lifestage was facebook's video app aimed only at high school students, built by a teenager it employed. michael sayman was nineteen and already a prod
4 Aug 2017 Heat Street — news corp launched heat street on 20 april 2016 with louise mensch running it, pitched internally as a libertarian huffington post and written in a lo
6 Aug 2017 Pengyou — pengyou was tencent's facebook-shaped attempt to compete with renren in the chinese real-name social-network market. it launched in august 2008 as qq
8 Aug 2017 Tinder Social — tinder social let you create a group with up to three of your facebook friends and swipe on other groups to plan a real-world hangout. it launched in
8 Aug 2017 Stack Overflow Documentation — documentation was stack overflow's biggest product expansion since launch. the pitch was example-first developer docs, written and edited the same way
17 Aug 2017 Stormpath — on 6 march 2017 okta said it had acquired stormpath, and in the same announcement stormpath told its customers the api would stop answering on august
21 Aug 2017 Whedonesque — a link blog about the work of joss whedon, started in 2002 by two people in the netherlands, which grew into the place his announcements landed first.
22 Aug 2017 Adobe SpeedGrade — the lumetri color engine arrived at adobe with the iridas purchase in 2011, and it spent the next six years eating the application it came in with. sp
24 Aug 2017 KANOA — twenty five pairs is the number the contract manufacturer actually built, against two years of pre-orders taken at a hundred and fifty dollars a time.
26 Aug 2017 Empathy — empathy was the chat client gnome shipped by default from version 2.24 onward, and ubuntu and fedora both made it the standard messenger in 2009. it d
28 Aug 2017 Friends Note — one thousand contacts was the ceiling, and inside that book kddi ran a feed. friends note pulled your contacts' posts from other networks into the add
31 Aug 2017 Wrzuta.pl — wrzuta was poland's youtube, a place to throw up a video or an mp3 and hand someone the link, and for a couple of years in the mid-2000s it was one of
31 Aug 2017 Livedoor Reader — livedoor reader was japan's answer to the online feed reader, launched in 2006, quick and built for the keyboard in a way power users loved. when goog
31 Aug 2017 Emil Chronicle Online — headlock built a japanese mmorpg around characters who stayed small and cute while the numbers behind them got very large. gravity and broccoli put it
31 Aug 2017 indoona — september 2011 is when tiscali decided italy should have its own skype, and 31 august 2017 is when it stopped paying for the idea. indoona did free ca
31 Aug 2017 BillGuard — sixty million dollars of charges that cardholders did not recognize, found by pooling what strangers complained about online and matching it against y
31 Aug 2017 CrimeCraft — a box on the shelf at best buy, a monthly fee behind it and sponsored advertising inside the game itself. that was the launch model in august 2009 and
31 Aug 2017 Mirai Dagakki FutureTomTom — konami built an arcade drum game for people who were bad at arcade drum games. four lit pads and two sticks on cords, with a kinect over the screen ch
1 Sep 2017 Half.com — half.com was the polite cousin of ebay. josh kopelman launched it in april 1999 as a fixed-price marketplace for used books and used cds. ebay bought
1 Sep 2017 Juicero — the 400 dollar wifi juicer. a beautifully built aluminum press that crushed proprietary single-serving produce packs with four tons of force, connecte
Sep 2017 Afrostream — tonjé bakang spent the summer of 2017 flying between american cities looking for a buyer before the money ran out. afrostream had opened in paris on 1
4 Sep 2017 Torrent Project — eight million torrents in the index and not one of them on its own disk. torrent project was a search box over other people's indexes, which is why it
6 Sep 2017 QQ Xuanfeng — qq xuanfeng was tencent's download manager for windows, released in january 2009 out of an older product called super xuanfeng. it pulled files over h
6 Sep 2017 Nylas Mail — eighty-four dollars a year was the price of the pro tier on an open source mail client, and nylas raised that price on the last holdouts three weeks a
8 Sep 2017 imgh.us — 699,927 images were sitting on it at 11:10 UTC on the morning it was supposed to close. the announcement had gone up seven weeks earlier and gave a re
10 Sep 2017 SceneAccess — the farewell page carried two dates and nothing else that mattered: 10.10.2006 to 10.09.2017. scc was an invite-only tracker for scene releases that r
12 Sep 2017 iTunes LP — itunes lp was apple's attempt to make a digital album feel like a packaged record. the format shipped with itunes 9 on september 9 2009 and bundled a
13 Sep 2017 Guruguru Shoukan Magical Gear — on 1 december 2015 gcrest opened an official site for a summoning rpg and started taking closed beta applications a month later. the next thing that s
15 Sep 2017 TrackID — years before there was an app store to download one from, sony ericsson was shipping a phone that could listen to a room and come back with the name o
18 Sep 2017 Shareaza — shareaza was the windows file-sharing client that searched four networks from one box, written by michael stokes in 2002 and released under the gpl in
19 Sep 2017 Nigma — two students from the computational mathematics faculty at moscow state university launched nigma on 12 april 2005. it had no index of its own. it que
2017 Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku — ios 11 killed it, which is a strange sentence to write about a pizza app. in march 2013 domino's pizza japan and crypton future media shipped an order
19 Sep 2017 Safari RSS — july 2012 is when apple took the feed reader out of safari, seven years after shipping it as a headline feature of tiger. the blue rss button in the a
20 Sep 2017 YouTube Video Editor — for seven years youtube kept a full editing timeline inside the website, and you did not need a program, a license or a machine that could handle vide
Sep 2017 Java Applets — applets were how the web tried to be a real application platform in the 90s. you visited a page, the gray loading rectangle appeared, sun's coffee log
25 Sep 2017 Happy Farm — happy farm is the original that most of the world only met through its copy. from november 2008 it let chinese social-network users plant crops and, o
Sep 2017 Dichtbij.nl — seven years of neighborhood reporting went off the internet in one move, and the archive went with it. dichtbij.nl was telegraaf media groep's answer
27 Sep 2017 Breath of Fire 6 — capcom's network game conference in august 2013 is where the series ended, though the dying took four more years to finish. the sixth breath of fire,
27 Sep 2017 碧海银沙网 — a directive from guangdong telecom on 13 september 2017 closed four of its regional portals at once, and 碧海银沙 was the oldest of them. it had been the
28 Sep 2017 Theano — theano came out of a university lab in montreal in 2007 and it was the first library that let you write mathematics in python and have it compiled dow
28 Sep 2017 Snapster — in the summer of 2015 vkontakte started blocking instagram links inside its own network, to push people toward a photo app it had shipped in july. the
29 Sep 2017 Affinity Labs — christopher michel sold military.com to monster in 2004 for forty million dollars, then started a company in 2006 to do the same trick about twenty mo
30 Sep 2017 Raptr — raptr was a gaming overlay and activity tracker built by dennis fong, the ex-xfire founder. it auto-detected what game you were playing, tracked your
1 Oct 2017 Newsvine — newsvine was a community-driven news platform that let users write articles and have their columns appear next to associated press wire copy. mike dav
Oct 2017 Snapchat Spectacles (1st gen) — the first time anyone heard "vending machine for sunglasses" was also the last time anyone wanted one. snap built 800k pairs and sold around a quarter
Oct 2017 ABCnews.com.co — paul horner registered a domain that read as the real thing to anybody not looking hard at the end of it, copied the network's logo and page layout, a
2 Oct 2017 IndieBox — indiebox took games that only existed as steam downloads and made them physical again, one a month, in cardboard boxes built to look like 1990s pc sof
2 Oct 2017 Tactical Intervention — minh le made counter-strike in a bedroom in 1999 and spent the following decade in seoul making this. tactical intervention came out free to play on 2
4 Oct 2017 Mattel Aristotle — january 2017: mattel walks into ces with a $299 speaker for the nursery, a camera to sit over the crib, and a pitch about a machine that would follow
6 Oct 2017 Efritin.com — efritin was a nigerian classifieds site, the local build of the pattern olx and gumtree had already proven elsewhere, run out of stockholm by saltside
6 Oct 2017 Doorman — san francisco, 2013: a company whose entire product was being home when you were not. doorman took delivery of your packages and brought them to your
7 Oct 2017 Xbox Live Indie Games — xbox live indie games (xblig) was microsoft's hobbyist-developer storefront on the xbox 360, announced at gdc 2008 and launched on 19 november 2008 as
8 Oct 2017 Windows Phone — microsoft's mobile OS that came after iphone and android were already entrenched. the live tile interface was genuinely interesting. nobody made apps
Oct 2017 Microsoft Lumia — microsoft lumia was the post-acquisition phase of the nokia lumia line that microsoft inherited when it closed the $7.2B nokia devices deal on april 2
9 Oct 2017 FatWallet — a deals forum with a rebate engine bolted on, where american bargain hunters posted every price mistake and coupon code they could find. it was sold u
10 Oct 2017 Nokia OZO — eight lenses in an aluminum ball, each with a 195 degree field of view, eight microphones, sixty thousand dollars. nokia built it in 2015 for the prof
17 Oct 2017 Visceral Games — visceral games started in 1998 as ea redwood shores, an internal ea studio working on tiger woods golf and bond licensed games. the dead space pitch c
18 Oct 2017 Instantbird — instantbird was a chat client built on the same engine as firefox, talking to twenty protocols at once through libpurple and through javascript plugin
25 Oct 2017 Microsoft Kinect — the depth-sensing camera bar for xbox 360 and xbox one. shipped november 2010, hit 8 million units in 60 days, the fastest-selling consumer electronic
26 Oct 2017 Sora to Daichi no Crossnore — nobuo uematsu, who wrote the music for final fantasy, composed the main theme. a million people installed it inside three months of launch. aiming clo
27 Oct 2017 Air Berlin — on 27 october 2017 an airbus a320 flew munich to berlin tegel under the callsign ber4evr, and germany's second-largest airline was finished. etihad ha
Oct 2017 IBM Bluemix — ibm announced bluemix as an open beta in february 2014, a cloud-foundry-based platform-as-a-service running on softlayer infrastructure. general avail
30 Oct 2017 The Consumerist — consumerist started at gawker media in december 2005 as a blog about being treated badly by companies, and it was very good at it. consumers union bou
Oct 2017 Bower — twitter's front-end package manager. it solved the problem of managing javascript libraries before npm decided to manage them too, then was deprecated
31 Oct 2017 Lovefilm — lovefilm was the uk version of the netflix-by-mail loop. you set a queue, red envelopes arrived in the post in turn, you sent them back to get the nex
31 Oct 2017 Daisuki — the studios tried to sell anime to the rest of the world themselves. daisuki launched in may 2013, owned by the ad agency asatsu-dk with toei animatio
31 Oct 2017 Kinilog — you checked in to a book. ntt solmare opened it on 4 august 2011 as bookcrew, a reading log where the states ran from acquired to finished and the boo
1 Nov 2017 Doppler Labs — doppler labs wanted to put a computer in your ear, a way to edit the live sound of the world the same way you edit a photo. it raised over fifty milli
Nov 2017 Junglee — junglee died twice under the same owner. amazon bought it in august 1998 for 1.6 million shares, used its database technology to launch a service that
1 Nov 2017 BBC Store — the bbc opened its archive as a shop in november 2015 and let you buy an episode and download it to keep. the corporation believed in the idea enough
Nov 2017 Microsoft Word Viewer — microsoft shipped a free program whose whole job was to open a word file on a machine that had not bought word. it could display a document and print
Nov 2017 Kamcord — kamcord began as a piece of code that game developers dropped into their own apps so a player could record the last thirty seconds of play and post it
1 Nov 2017 Microsoft WebMatrix — visual studio code came out of the same company that made this one, which is the whole story in a sentence. webmatrix shipped free on 13 january 2011
1 Nov 2017 Opinion — a hundred thousand people recorded on it in three years, which was the problem. opinion let you make and publish a podcast from an iphone for free, an
2 Nov 2017 DNAinfo — dnainfo was a joe ricketts hyperlocal news network covering new york city and chicago. it launched november 2009 in manhattan, expanded to chicago in
6 Nov 2017 Ameba Now — ameba now was cyberagent's twitter clone for japan, built around the celebrity accounts that already lived on the ameba blog side. it launched in dece
6 Nov 2017 Anarchopedia — a serbian anarchist named miloš rančić started anarchopedia on 30 september 2004 as a wiki that refused the neutral point of view on purpose. it ran i
7 Nov 2017 Nintendo TVii — nintendo tvii was a tv-discovery feature for the wii u gamepad. it shipped in japan on december 8 2012 and in north america on december 20 the same ye
8 Nov 2017 Miiverse — miiverse was a social network where the main form of expression was a doodle drawn on a wii u gamepad. it had heavy moderation and a per-game communit
8 Nov 2017 Seeso — seeso was nbcuniversal's attempt at a comedy-only streaming channel. evan shapiro launched it on january 7 2016 at $3.99 a month with snl and parks an
10 Nov 2017 60dB — 60db was a short-form audio app that played you a personalized stream of news and stories, each one kept short and tuned to what you listened to. it c
10 Nov 2017 Xaphir — xilopix spent eight years in épinal building a search engine that refused to rank by popularity. xaphir went live on 9 may 2017 with 169 million pages
14 Nov 2017 Firebug — joe hewitt shipped firebug as a firefox extension in january 2006 and it changed what a web page was to work on. before it you read view-source and gu
14 Nov 2017 Vimperator — vimperator turned firefox into a modal editor. the toolbars went away and a command line took their place at the bottom of the window, where you typed
14 Nov 2017 Firefox Legacy Add-ons — firefox 57 shipped on 14 november 2017. it was the fastest firefox in years, and it was also the release that broke every extension written against xu
14 Nov 2017 Lucifox — a swedish developer working as ordbrand built an e-book reader that lived inside a firefox tab and named the whole family of it after a seventeenth ce
14 Nov 2017 Fasterfox — the settings window had five presets and the last one was called extreme, with help text admitting it went past what the specifications asked for and
16 Nov 2017 Bluegogo — a little over a year is the whole life of china's third-largest bike-share company. li gang, who made carbon racing bicycles at speedx, had around 70,
17 Nov 2017 Toy Freaks — six point nine billion views, and then a termination notice one day after youtube rewrote the rule it fell under. toy freaks ran from 2012 to 17 novem
17 Nov 2017 Emberlight — 270 target stores carried the emberlight socket, a threaded adapter that sat between a lamp and an ordinary bulb and made the bulb dimmable from a pho
17 Nov 2017 Wiggio — desire2learn bought it in march 2013 and told reporters the service would go on running by itself "for the foreseeable future". the foreseeable future
23 Nov 2017 Fatso — a dvd and blu-ray rental service that ran through new zealand post, started in auckland in 2004 by rob berman of westside media. you paid a monthly fe
23 Nov 2017 Moldovan Wikipedia — article 13 of moldova's constitution says the state language functions on the latin alphabet, and that single clause did most of the argument's work.
25 Nov 2017 ooVoo — the group video chat people used because skype's free tier only worked for small calls. up to twelve callers at once on every platform that mattered,
27 Nov 2017 Marvel Heroes — marvel heroes was diablo by another name with the full marvel roster as playable characters, and for four years it actually worked. then sexual-miscon
28 Nov 2017 Pop Up Archive — oakland, 2012: two berkeley information-science students turned a master's final project into the company that transcribed public radio's back catalog
29 Nov 2017 SaveUp — seven million dollars of venture funding went into a product whose entire thesis was that americans would save more if saving felt like a lottery tick
29 Nov 2017 Shutokou Battle XTREME — ten months and three days separate the launch from the last playable minute. genki opened it on 26 january 2017 and stopped it on 29 november at 12:59
30 Nov 2017 Geekadelphia — on 29 november 2007 two friends in philadelphia started a blog to have somewhere to put the silly videos they were making. ten years and one day later
1 Dec 2017 AOL Radio — aol radio launched on october 16 2001 as radio@aol, a 200-station streaming service bundled inside the aol 7.0 client. the audio backend came from spi
1 Dec 2017 Doppler Labs Here One — doppler labs was a new-york-based hearables startup founded in 2013 by noah kraft and fritz lanman. it raised over $50 million from universal music, l
Dec 2017 Leeroy Jenkins — a guild called pals for life uploaded forty five seconds of a raid falling apart on 11 may 2005 and the name became a word for anyone who charges in w
1 Dec 2017 NCIX — ncix sold computer parts to canadians for twenty one years, first by mail order out of richmond and later from ten stores across two provinces. it hir
Dec 2017 Classic Shell — classic shell was a free windows utility by ivo beltchev that put an old fashioned start menu back on a system that had taken one away. it launched on
Dec 2017 Develop — a monthly magazine about making games rather than buying them, which meant nobody outside the industry ever picked it up and everybody inside it read
Dec 2017 Facebook Ticker — facebook switched the ticker on for everyone on 20 september 2011, a strip down the right side of the page that showed friends' activity as it happene
2017 Cocadaboa — rio de janeiro, 2001: an economist by training named wagner martins starts a humor site with a handful of friends and signs it mr. manson. the disclai
Dec 2017 Filsh — three million people a month pasted a video link into filsh.net and got a file back, which made a small company in the ruhr the market leader for vide
Dec 2017 Russkiy Kurier — igor golembiovsky was removed from novye izvestia in 2003 after the paper ran a piece about a cult of personality forming around putin. he took the ne
Dec 2017 Gimme Bar — a bookmark points at a page, and then the page changes. gimme bar saved the thing itself, the image file rather than the address it was living at, int
1 Dec 2017 Style Jukebox — timișoara, romania is where two people built a cloud locker for the kind of listener who still owned their music and cared what bitrate it was in. ion
5 Dec 2017 Verizon.net Email — the company that took over verizon's mail in 2017 was aol, which verizon itself had bought two years earlier. the mx record for verizon.net moved onto
6 Dec 2017 Ghost in the Shell: First Assault Online — a july 2017 patch called renewal is what finished this one off. nexon and neople built a free-to-play shooter inside the ghost in the shell: stand alo
8 Dec 2017 Dev Bootcamp — three people in san francisco started a nineteen-week program in february 2012 that would take somebody with no background and try to make them employ
10 Dec 2017 Alto Mail — aol built an email client that did not want to give you an email address. alto opened on 18 october 2012, invitation only, and logged into the gmail o
11 Dec 2017 Origami Flowers — the small mobile flower-growing series. you tended an origami rose, daisy, iris, orchid, sunflower, or tulip. the games connected to a shared server,
11 Dec 2017 Nana10 — gadi shamshon and zev alon started nana in 1999 inside an israeli isp's offices in haifa, and for most of two decades it was one of the places the heb
15 Dec 2017 AOL Instant Messenger — the AOL Instant Messenger. the running yellow guy was its mascot. it was the messenger of every american millennial after school in 2003. in turkey we
15 Dec 2017 Vidme — vidme was the youtube competitor with reddit voting on top, the one that thought a creator-first revenue split could pry monetization away from google
15 Dec 2017 CodePlex — codeplex was microsoft's open-source project host. launched in beta may 2006, public june 27 2006. it ran on tfvc and mercurial first, added git later
15 Dec 2017 Docs.com — docs.com was two different microsoft products wearing the same address. the first launched on 21 april 2010 at facebook's f8 conference, a fuse labs p
15 Dec 2017 Uclue — google answers stopped taking new questions on 30 november 2006 and put a few hundred paid researchers out of work overnight. roger browne, one of the
15 Dec 2017 CompuServe Forums — thirty-six years is a long run for anything with a login on it. the forums opened in 1981 as special interest groups, eight of them, and grew into tho
15 Dec 2017 FeedSync — ray ozzie posted a thing called really simple sharing on 20 november 2005, three weeks into his job as microsoft's chief software architect. the idea
16 Dec 2017 Grams — grams appeared in april 2014 and indexed the tor drug markets the way a search engine indexes anything else, down to an ad system and a logo drawn in
25 Dec 2017 Zeropaid.com — on christmas day 2017 zeropaid started returning a database connection error, and that was the end of it. nothing was announced, and one of its own wr
27 Dec 2017 Another Round — two buzzfeed staff writers started a drinking podcast in 2015 and spent three years turning it into the place where black american writers said what t
29 Dec 2017 Gratipay — 152 thursdays in a row it paid people, and then one thursday it did not. stripe had told gittip that what it was doing looked like money transmission
2017 Dial-up Internet — the way most of the world got online from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. the 14.4k modem became 33.6, then 56k. the handshake sound is one of the
2017 Motion Twin (Flash era) — a small french collective that made hammerfest, mush, dinoparc, and a stack of other browser games in the early 2000s. the flash games died when flash
31 Dec 2017 Plaxo — plaxo was the contact-updater service that mailed your friends to ask them to refresh their phone numbers in your address book. for two years the inbo
2017 The Real Tooth Fairies — the kids' tooth fairy site. you took a quiz, got matched to one of six fairies, and got to explore their world. each fairy had a song and a storybook.
31 Dec 2017 Microsoft Groove Music — groove music was the third name microsoft tried for the same streaming-music service it had been trying to keep alive since the zune. it started as xb
2017 Cidco MailStation — the mailstation was a battery-powered email-only countertop appliance, shipped by cidco in late 1999 at around a hundred dollars plus an annual servic
2017 HowAboutWe — howaboutwe tried to make online dating less about the profile and more about the date itself. you would post a sentence beginning with how about we, a
Dec 2017 Meez — meez was a teen virtual world made in san francisco for an american audience. ninety percent of its users lived in the us. burak was twenty-two and ha
Dec 2017 Naymz — naymz built a public credibility score it called repscore and asked the english-speaking internet to care. about 1.8 million people did. burak, twenty
2017 Microsoft Bing Audio — bing audio was the shazam-equivalent microsoft built into windows phone 7.5 and shipped from september 27 2011 onward. it was a microsoft-developed au
31 Dec 2017 WhatsApp for BlackBerry — whatsapp launched in 2009 on iphone, then spent the next year shipping native clients for the platforms that owned the rest of the global phone market
2017 Esmas.com — esmas was televisa's portal play for the spanish-language web. it launched in 2000 as a one-roof aggregator for shopping, classifieds, dating, horosco
Dec 2017 Sony Media Go — sony's answer to itunes for anyone locked into the sony hardware world. it moved music and video onto the psp, the vita, the walkman, the xperia, all
31 Dec 2017 Figment — figment was a place for teenagers to write fiction and put it in front of other teenagers who wrote fiction. two new yorker staffers built it in 2010,
2017 Queer Lala Times — queer lala times was a chinese-language queer magazine published by the chinese lala alliance from 2013, and it never had a website: it lived on douba
2017 Pyro Studios — pyro studios was a madrid company that made a world war two tactics game nobody had asked spain for and sold five million copies of the series. comman
2017 Hello Kitty Online — hello kitty online was a free-to-play mmorpg out of hong kong, made by sanrio digital with typhoon games, built around farming and crafting instead of
2017 CloudPets — a mongodb holding 821,000 accounts sat on a public ip with no password on it, and shodan indexed it on christmas day 2016. the voice messages themselv
2017 Edusim — a kansas education service center spent a decade arguing that the whiteboard at the front of the room was a 3d surface, not a projector screen. edusim
31 Dec 2017 TitanPad — on 14 april 2010 etherpad.com stopped letting anyone create a new pad, because google had bought appjet and was switching it off. michael prokop, chri
31 Dec 2017 TmBox — two hundred million plays went through a japanese upload box that never asked you to make an account, because your twitter account was the account. wh
31 Dec 2017 The Outliner of Giants — a web application for people who think in nested lists, which is a smaller audience than it sounds and a more stubborn one. it ran from 2009 on google

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2016 Unity Web Player — the plugin that ran 3d games inside your browser before that was a normal thing to expect. for about a decade, if a web page loaded a real unity game,
2016 Elfwood — the largest sci-fi and fantasy art gallery on the early web. hosted out of linköping university in sweden by thomas abrahamsson. ran twenty years, eat
Jan 2016 Milblogging.com — milblogging.com was the central directory for the wave of first-person deployment blogs that came out of the iraq and afghanistan wars. jean-paul bord
2016 Advogato — advogato was the free software world's reputation lab, built by raph levien in 1999. instead of every account counting the same, members certified eac
2016 Clinkle — clinkle raised close to thirty million dollars on secrecy and anticipation and almost no product. lucas duplan started it as a stanford student with a
2016 Humortadela — brazil got its own humor internet before most countries did. humortadela went up on 3 december 1995 and ran flash cartoons with recurring characters t
2016 Opera Mail — opera mail was the email client built into the opera browser, known as M2, with one odd idea for its time. it did not want you to sort mail into folde
2016 VHS-C — vhs-c was a small vhs cassette with the same tape inside, sold on a single promise: you would not have to buy anything else to watch what you shot. it
1 Jan 2016 Look At Me — look at me started in 2006 as a moscow street-style blog and grew into the flagship title of a publishing house. for ten years it was where russian re
2016 Bigfoot — bigfoot sold a promise rather than a mailbox. you took a bigfoot.com address and pointed it at wherever your mail actually lived, so when your isp cha
2016 Jiepang — foursquare was blocked in china, so somebody built the same thing locally and for about three years it worked. jiepang had five million registered acc
2016 Universal Typeface Experiment — the universal typeface experiment was an advertisement for a ballpoint pen. bic put a writing surface on a web page in june 2014 and asked anyone at a
2016 Manjam — two million registered accounts and twenty-eight languages, and it went without a notice or a buyer. manjam ran out of london from october 2004 and wa
2016 Asphalt Overdrive — gameloft had a racing series that worked, and in september 2014 it shipped a spin-off that did not race. asphalt overdrive was an endless runner built
2016 Veetle — a few stanford graduate students built veetle in 2008 so one person on a normal home connection could broadcast live video to thousands, by making eve
2016 McAfee SiteAdvisor — a room of MIT engineers built robots that filled in nine hundred thousand signup forms with throwaway addresses, counted the spam that came back, and
2016 Chaos.com — sydney, 1995: rob appel started selling cds over the internet as chaos music market, four years before anyone in australia had a reason to trust that.
2016 Vostu — zynga sued vostu in june 2011 for copying its games down to the bugs, and took a settlement in december that cost money and forced four titles to be r
2016 Robô Ed — a chrome cartoon robot sat on a brazilian government energy website from 2004 and talked to anyone who typed at him, in portuguese, about saving elect
2016 夠Yeah (Goyeah) — a hong kong reporter who became a national meme in 2000 for asking jiang zemin one question too many spent eighteen months building the city's first l
1 Jan 2016 La Frikipedia — the spanish collecting society sued a joke encyclopedia in early 2006 over one satirical article and asked for up to twelve thousand euros. la frikipe
Jan 2016 LesMads — jessica weiß and julia knolle started it in april 2007 as a plain fashion blog and had about 240 readers a day. hubert burda media watched for two mon
2016 BlikBook — civitas learning of austin, texas announced the purchase on 21 july 2015 and let the name run for about another year. blikbook had come out of a resea
2016 Tunepics — justin cooke came out of topshop and burberry marketing and built an app that put a thirty second itunes clip behind your photograph, then asked every
2016 Eyejot — seattle, 2007: two founders demoed a way to record a video message in a browser window and send it like email, with nothing to download first. that wa
4 Jan 2016 Yahoo Screen — yahoo screen was the brand yahoo used between 2011 and 2016 to try to compete with netflix and hulu on original streaming video. the headline buy was
6 Jan 2016 iWon.com — iwon was a portal with a slot machine glued to the front. every search, every page view, every login earned tickets toward a daily ten thousand dollar
8 Jan 2016 Hacker Monthly — sixty-seven issues, one editor, laid out in indesign in malaysia and mailed to wherever you lived. lim cheng soon read hacker news so that his subscri
11 Jan 2016 Madasafish — madasafish sold internet access out of stornoway on the isle of lewis, which is about as far from london as a british isp could physically put itself.
14 Jan 2016 TouchVision — chicago, 2013: a weigel-backed outfit put a news channel on spare broadcast subchannels with no anchors and no desk, cutting between field pieces the
14 Jan 2016 Stolen! — a letter from a member of congress ended it. stolen! let you spend play money to own any twitter account, whether the person behind it had signed up o
Jan 2016 Cryptsy — cryptsy was the altcoin exchange people used before coinbase listed anything but bitcoin. paul vernon (big vern) ran it out of florida from may 2013 t
Jan 2016 Oyster — a new york startup pitched ebook subscription the way netflix pitched dvd subscription. one million titles, ten dollars a month, unlimited reading. th
15 Jan 2016 Mobile by Sainsbury's — a supermarket and a network operator could not agree how to carry their joint venture forward, so 150,000 phone customers got three months of notice a
18 Jan 2016 Cute Overload — cute overload was a photoblog of small animals looking up at the camera, updated daily by meg frost from december 2005. it codified an internal "rules
21 Jan 2016 The Why Files — the national science foundation paid for it in 1996 to find out whether the web could be used to explain science to a general audience, and the answer
22 Jan 2016 Skitch — skitch was a mac annotation tool. you took a screenshot, drew a fat red arrow on it, the public skitch.com url was already on your clipboard. plasq pr
22 Jan 2016 Corbis — bill gates started corbis in 1989 to buy the rights to photographs, on a theory that people would one day hang screens in their houses and want someth
25 Jan 2016 Google Code — google code launched march 17, 2005 as a project-hosting service for open source code. it offered subversion, later mercurial and git, plus an issue t
26 Jan 2016 TTNET — ttnet was türk telekom's retail internet arm, spun into its own company on 26 april 2006 because the wholesale line business and the shop that sold su
26 Jan 2016 Avea — avea was turkey's third mobile operator, which in a market where two networks already had the country is a permanent position rather than a starting o
2016 Crazy Browser — 15 january 2002 is the date on the first release and 20 september 2011 is the date on the last. in between, crazy browser wrapped microsoft's trident
28 Jan 2016 iTunes Radio — apple's pandora response, baked into ios 7's music app on september 18 2013. ad-supported station radio with a buy-this-song button on every now-playi
28 Jan 2016 Jolla Tablet — jolla was built by people nokia released when it chose windows phone over meego, and the tablet was their attempt to prove that an independent europea
31 Jan 2016 Live365 — live365 was the platform that let any random person run their own internet radio station. it bundled the licensing so you did not have to negotiate wi
31 Jan 2016 Songza — songza launched in november 2007 from new york as a streaming service whose interface asked "what are you doing right now" and answered with a hand-cu
31 Jan 2016 BodyMedia — astro teller co-founded it, more than a decade before he was running google's moonshot lab. bodymedia spent fourteen years in pittsburgh building an a
Feb 2016 Shumway — flash outlived the project built to replace it. mozilla research announced shumway on 12 november 2012, written up by jet villegas: a flash virtual ma
2 Feb 2016 Artizone — dallas got it in 2011 and denver was still new when it ended. artizone was one website where roughly two hundred and twenty local butchers and bakers
2 Feb 2016 Nolblog — at 00:28 on 1 february 2016 three thousand hungarian blogs went dark, came back about eight hours later, and were switched off for good the next after
5 Feb 2016 Rusty Hearts — japan went first, in march 2014. then north america that september, then china the following january, and finally the korean original in february 2016
5 Feb 2016 Fly Labs — a former child actor who came back with a cornell math phd and taught himself ios on the side is not the standard founder story, but tim novikoff and
8 Feb 2016 GameTrailers — gametrailers was the place you went between 2003 and 2010 to actually watch a game trailer in higher than 240p. youtube later made that a feature of e
9 Feb 2016 Lulu — lulu let women review men behind their backs and called it dating intelligence. you looked up a guy by his facebook profile and saw what other women h
9 Feb 2016 Offbeatr — offbeatr opened on 9 august 2012, run by a los angeles outfit called extra lunch money, and the press called it kickstarter for porn because kickstart
10 Feb 2016 Frankly.me — frankly.me was an indian app built on a simple hook, you asked a celebrity a question and they answered you back in a short selfie video. it launched
17 Feb 2016 Yahoo! Travel — yahoo travel launched as a vertical in 1997. by january 2014 it was ranked the ninth-largest travel booking website in the world by hitwise. the same
17 Feb 2016 Wat.tv — wat.tv was the french broadcaster TF1's attempt to own online video, launched in 2006 under a name that stood for we are talented. the plan was a home
19 Feb 2016 Powa Technologies — powa was a london fintech that claimed a $2.7 billion valuation and went into administration on 19 february 2016 with about $250,000 in the bank. its
20 Feb 2016 Fotolog — the photo blog. one photo a day. comments and a guestbook. peak in argentina, chile, and spain around 2007. i never used it in turkey because it was n
25 Feb 2016 Convrge — convrge was a social vr hangout for the oculus rift dk1 and dk2, built by shawn whiting and hayden lee out of a nashville apartment after they met at
25 Feb 2016 Mp3skull — mp3skull was an mp3 search-and-direct-download aggregator that launched in 2010 and reached alexa's top 500 by 2013. the major labels sued jointly in
26 Feb 2016 Mailbox — the iphone email app that taught a generation of people what "swipe to archive" meant. orchestra inc launched it on 7 february 2013 with a reservation
28 Feb 2016 PlayStation TV — playstation tv was sony's microconsole take on the vita, a hdmi puck that played vita and psp games on a television through the dualshock 3. it launch
29 Feb 2016 Friends Reunited — the UK's first big social network. you registered, you picked your old school from a directory of british schools, you saw the list of classmates who
Feb 2016 iG (Internet Group) — ig was the brazilian free-dial-up phenomenon of the early 2000s. internet group launched on 9 january 2000 from sao paulo, backed by gp investimentos
29 Feb 2016 Tales of Pirates — in the last week of january 2016 igg posted a farewell and pointed everyone at its mobile games. a month later, on the leap day, the servers went off.
29 Feb 2016 dotCloud — the shutdown landed on 29 february 2016, a date that only exists every four years. dotcloud was the platform solomon hykes started in paris and relaun
29 Feb 2016 Yahoo! Bookmarks (Japan) — 17 april 2013 is the date yahoo! japan announced this one was closing, on 17 july, along with yahoo! clip. enough users asked for it back that on 29 m
29 Feb 2016 3D PRINT LAB. — a phone case you drew yourself, sintered out of nylon powder and posted to your door inside two weeks for 3,980 yen. kddi owned no printer and wrote n
Mar 2016 Elance — bernard sheth and srini anumolu founded elance in 1999 out of jersey city, moved it to silicon valley by the end of the year. the platform spent the 2
Mar 2016 Betamax — the story people reach for when they want to say the better product does not always win. betamax had the sharper picture and lost anyway, on recording
Mar 2016 Candystand — candystand was a free browser games portal built in 1997 for the life savers candy brand by skyworks technologies, a studio run by two ex-activision g
Mar 2016 MicroMV — sony introduced micromv in october 2001 and it is still the smallest videotape anybody shipped, seventy percent smaller than minidv and about the foot
Mar 2016 MyMajorCompany — mymajorcompany opened in december 2007 asking ordinary people to put ten euros each behind an unsigned artist, with seventy thousand euros as the numb
1 Mar 2016 Darkspore — darkspore was maxis emeryville's first game after will wright left, a squad based action rpg that borrowed the spore creature editor and demanded a li
1 Mar 2016 Rakuten Belanja Online — rakuten belanja online was rakuten's attempt at indonesia, launched in 2011 as a joint venture with the media group behind MNC. the model was the japa
Mar 2016 Zuula — every other metasearch engine of the era mixed its sources into a single ranked list and asked you to trust the mixing. zuula would not do it. boris s
Mar 2016 BBC Lab UK — a national broadcaster with an audience of millions is, looked at from one angle, a recruitment channel no university could ever afford. the bbc worke
Mar 2016 Ktunnel — on 18 august 2008 milliyet counted a proxy site at number 37 among the most visited sites in turkey, twenty places below the youtube it existed to rea
Mar 2016 WDYL (What Do You Love) — a search box with a heart on the button, and behind it a dozen google products answering the same query at the same time. wdyl.com went live on 27 jun
6 Mar 2016 Open Hunt — on 15 december 2015 somebody published a post about how product hunt's front page actually got chosen. three days later there was a rails app with twi
7 Mar 2016 Shingun Destroy — bandai namco has kept a shared science fiction continuity running since the arcade era, and in 2014 it quietly filed a free phone game about tank crew
14 Mar 2016 Hypertable — doug judd built hypertable at zvents as a c++ implementation of google's bigtable paper, and baidu signed on as a project sponsor in january 2009 and
15 Mar 2016 SpoonRocket — spoonrocket was the on-demand meal startup that treated lunch as a logistics problem. drivers carried insulated bags full of pre-cooked $6 meals aroun
15 Mar 2016 The Malaysian Insider — jahabar sadiq had been a reporter in the region since 1988 and edited the malaysian insider until its last minute. it launched on 25 february 2008 as
16 Mar 2016 Talko — talko was ray ozzie's second startup after lotus and groove networks. it was a voice-first messaging app for work teams, built on the premise that con
16 Mar 2016 Shelfari — shelfari launched on 11 october 2006 in seattle, founded by josh hug and kevin beukelman as a virtual-bookshelf social network where readers tagged th
16 Mar 2016 享樂團購網 (FunShare) — hong kong got its group-buying wave in 2010, the same year everybody else did, and funshare was the local entry that never got bought by anyone bigger
16 Mar 2016 Wildcard — ten million dollars from general catalyst and softbank bought a card-based iphone browser and a published card schema that publishers were invited to
21 Mar 2016 Nokia MixRadio — nokia's free streaming radio built on the ashes of nokia music. announced 26 october 2011 for windows phone at the lumia launch, rebranded from nokia
22 Mar 2016 Evolution Studios — evolution studios spent seventeen years making racing games that looked better than they had any business looking, first the official world rally cham
22 Mar 2016 NutshellMail — a social network aggregator that ran in the opposite direction to everything around it. instead of opening facebook or twitter you told nutshellmail w
24 Mar 2016 Microsoft Tay — microsoft's twitter chatbot. lasted 16 hours. 4chan taught it nazi tweets within minutes of launch. microsoft pulled the plug before the next afternoo
24 Mar 2016 Skype Qik — qik was the second life of a name microsoft already owned. the original qik was a 2006 live mobile broadcasting service skype bought in 2011, then sat
25 Mar 2016 HuffPost Live — huffpost live was aol and huffington post's streaming video newsroom, launched 13 august 2012 with eight live hours a day out of new york and four mor
25 Mar 2016 Radikal — turkish daily founded on october 13 1996 by doğan, on the web from march 1998. it stopped printing on june 21 2014 and carried on as a website only, t
28 Mar 2016 DarkScape — darkscape was jagex's attempt to spin off a runescape variant where anyone could attack anyone almost anywhere. it opened on 16 september 2015 and clo
31 Mar 2016 Dropbox Carousel — carousel was dropbox's attempt to be the place your photos lived without the social-feed noise. it was nicely built, paired with an app called mailbox
Mar 2016 Tuenti — tuenti was spain's facebook between 2009 and 2012, with fifteen million registered users at peak and an estimated fifteen percent of all spanish web t
Mar 2016 Yahoo Livetext — livetext was a video chat app where nobody was allowed to talk. you opened the camera and your friend opened the camera. you typed at each other while
31 Mar 2016 Yahoo! Search BOSS — boss was an api on yahoo's web index. you signed up, got a key, called the endpoint, got json or xml ranked-and-relevant search results back. yahoo im
31 Mar 2016 Clearwire (CLEAR) — craig mccaw's second wireless company sold home and mobile broadband over wimax under the clear brand, starting in portland in january 2009. sprint an
31 Mar 2016 Yandex.Slovari — yandex spent a decade licensing the russian reference shelf and putting it behind one search box, the great soviet encyclopedia and dahl included, wit
31 Mar 2016 Rise of Mana — the eleventh mana game was free-to-play, japanese only, and lasted two years. square enix put rise of mana on ios in march 2014 with a story about an
31 Mar 2016 PlayStation Broadband Navigator — japan got a hard disk for the playstation 2 and a dashboard to run it, and nobody else did. broadband navigator turned the console into a media machin
Apr 2016 More — more was meredith's magazine for us women over forty, a demographic thesis turned into a print monthly. launched with the september 1998 issue, peaked
1 Apr 2016 AbsolutePunk — jason tate started absolutepunk.net in june 2000, at fifteen, as a fan page for blink-182 and mxpx. it turned into the place an entire pop-punk and em
Apr 2016 Tencent Paipai — paipai was tencent's answer to taobao, a c2c marketplace launched in 2005 that had every advantage on paper. it rode qq's hundreds of millions of user
Apr 2016 Kippt — kippt was a place to keep links, built in 2011 by two finnish designers who wanted bookmarking to be shared and searchable instead of a lonely folder
1 Apr 2016 Soranet — soranet began in 1999 as a personal link page and became the largest korean-language pornography site on the internet, with more than a million regist
Apr 2016 Letitbit — registered in the seychelles and cyprus, hosted in the netherlands. letitbit opened in 2007 promising unlimited file size with a winking smiley, paid
1 Apr 2016 The Tower of Druaga: the Phantom of GILGAMESH — namco's 1984 arcade game became an mmorpg in 2008, developed by q entertainment and supervised by masanobu endo, who had designed the original and who
4 Apr 2016 Atmel — george perlegos left intel in 1984 and built a company around putting flash memory on a microcontroller, which sounds like nothing until you remember
5 Apr 2016 Scarlet Blade — scarlet blade was the western version of a korean mmo called queen's blade, localized by aeria games in 2013. it ran on the aggressive marketing angle
5 Apr 2016 OSVDB (Open Sourced Vulnerability Database) — osvdb was an attempt to keep a vulnerability database outside anybody's commercial control. it was started at black hat in august 2002 and opened to t
7 Apr 2016 Alien Blue — alien blue was reddit's favorite ios client back when reddit did not have an official one. jase morrissey built it in objective-c out of melbourne. re
8 Apr 2016 GameMaker Sandbox — yoyo games spent nine years letting anyone with a copy of gamemaker upload what they had built, and ended up holding more than a hundred thousand game
10 Apr 2016 Nostalrius — nostalrius was a free server that ran world of warcraft as it stood in 2006, patch 1.12, with none of the expansions on top of it. an unpaid french te
11 Apr 2016 Dabs.com — two men in bolton started a computer-book imprint in 1987 and named it after their own initials. by 2008 dabs.com was turning over about 200 million p
12 Apr 2016 Al Jazeera America — al jazeera america was a us-only cable news channel built by al jazeera media network to convert qatar's roughly five hundred million dollar purchase
14 Apr 2016 QuickTime for Windows — quicktime for windows was the price you paid for installing itunes. apple shipped it in november 1994, mostly so its own.mov format would play on the
14 Apr 2016 Phorm — ttnet carried phorm from 2012 under a brand called gezinti, which is how a company already driven out of british broadband ended up reporting twenty m
15 Apr 2016 Shuddle — one day of notice. shuddle emailed parents and drivers on 14 april 2016 to say the service would stop at the end of business the following day, which
15 Apr 2016 Kitchensurfing — chris muscarella and borahm cho started it in 2012 out of a brooklyn townhouse as a marketplace where you booked a chef days ahead for a dinner party.
18 Apr 2016 GamePolitics.com — dennis mccauley started it in march 2005 to cover a beat nobody else was working full time: the legislation and the lawsuits aimed at video games in t
21 Apr 2016 Experience Project — a place built for people who needed to say something they could not say under their own name. it started as a support board for one illness and grew i
21 Apr 2016 Empire of Sports — a french studio called f4 built a persistent world where one avatar trained across six sports and met strangers from other countries in real time. emp
22 Apr 2016 Livemocha — livemocha was the 2007 bellevue peer language exchange community. you filled in your native language and the language you wanted to learn, the site ro
Apr 2016 Aniboom — an israeli television executive worked out that there were thousands of animators with nowhere to be seen and studios with no way to find them, then b
23 Apr 2016 PepperTap — peppertap started taking grocery orders in gurgaon on 26 november 2014 and raised around fifty million dollars from sequoia and saif partners on the w
28 Apr 2016 Deka☆Musu — four months and three days after it opened, deka musu had a closing date. ortdash was a joint venture between alt plus and gree, and this was an origi
29 Apr 2016 Lionhead Studios — lionhead was peter molyneux's second uk studio after he left bullfrog and ea in 1997, set up in guildford with mark webley and tim rance. black and wh
30 Apr 2016 CastleVille — castleville was zynga's medieval-fantasy entry in the social-game wave, built at the zynga dallas studio, with art that aimed at a deeper online game
30 Apr 2016 Xfire — xfire was a free game-aware instant messenger that launched in april 2004 from a team led by quake legend dennis 'thresh' fong. it watched what game y
Apr 2016 Yahoo! Games — the yahoo browser games portal. pool, chess, spades, hearts, dominoes, backgammon. each game opened in a small popup window. you got matched with rand
Apr 2016 Pheed — pheed was a paid social network founded in los angeles in november 2012 by o.d. kobo, tony deniro, and phil haus. it sold itself as a creator-monetiza
Apr 2016 MyVideo — myvideo was a german-language video portal launched in 2006 by magic internet and later absorbed into the prosiebensat.1 broadcast group. it ran the y
30 Apr 2016 Nook Video — barnes and noble tried to make the nook hd into a general-purpose media tablet in late 2012 by adding a video store next to the ebook store. the video
30 Apr 2016 My Tracks — my tracks was google's gps recorder for android, shipped in february 2009 when a phone that knew where it was still counted as news. you pressed recor
30 Apr 2016 Softimage — softimage was the high-end 3d animation package of the 1990s, the software behind the jurassic park dinosaurs, and then it spent twenty years being so
30 Apr 2016 Presso — hatena spent a decade turning bookmarks into a ranking of what japan was reading, then in march 2014 put that ranking in a separate iphone app so it c
1 May 2016 Picasa — the desktop photo organizer that managed every digital camera dump for a decade. you plugged in the camera and picasa sorted everything into date fold
1 May 2016 Kuro5hin — kuro5hin (pronounced corrosion) was a collaborative-edited news and discussion site founded in december 1999 by rusty foster as a slashdot alternative
1 May 2016 Copy.com — copy.com was barracuda networks putting a consumer face on the storage it already ran for its backup appliances. it opened in february 2013 with fifte
May 2016 Kliksa — sabancı wanted an online retailer and built one from scratch instead of buying one. kliksa opened in 2012 and spent four years discounting against hep
May 2016 Mystery Seeker — type anything, press search, and you got somebody else's search instead. that was the entire mechanic, launched on 2 october 2009 under the name myste
2 May 2016 Freebase — freebase was a crowdsourced structured knowledge base started by metaweb technologies in 2007. it described 44 million topics and 2.4 billion facts as
3 May 2016 Tampa Tribune — the tampa tribune was one of two competing daily newspapers in tampa, florida, from 1895 until its rival bought and shut it in may 2016. it was owned
4 May 2016 Katch — a two-day hack built out of the sxsw 2015 livestream boom that turned into a real product with 1.3 million monthly users. saved meerkat and periscope
4 May 2016 Neon Alley — viz media launched neon alley on 2 october 2012 as a twenty-four hour anime channel you watched through a playstation 3, english dubbed and uncut, for
5 May 2016 SF Signal — sf signal spent thirteen years as a science fiction blog with a podcast operation bolted to it, and it got good enough to win the hugo for best fanzin
10 May 2016 Disney Infinity — three years of avalanche software trying to be skylanders for disney's ip vault. you bought a plastic figurine, dropped it on an infinity base usb don
10 May 2016 Disney Interactive Studios — disney spent twenty-eight years trying to be a real games publisher. they were buena vista games, then disney interactive, then disney interactive stu
10 May 2016 Tlen.pl — tlen.pl launched in october 2001 from grupa o2 in poland as a desktop instant messenger meant to compete with the already-dominant gadu-gadu. the prot
11 May 2016 Sqwiggle — a webcam pointed at your desk all day, refreshing your face into a grid of colleagues every few seconds, was somebody's sincere answer to remote work
11 May 2016 PSharing — at 17:49 on 11 may 2016 the server stopped answering, and by 19:34 both of its domains were pointing at the operator's webhosting business instead. no
13 May 2016 WebObjects — webobjects was the apple piece of the late-nineties java web stack. next first shipped it in march 1996 for fifty thousand dollars a license, apple in
15 May 2016 Revolv — revolv shipped a $300 hub with seven radios that promised to be the brain of your house. nest bought the company in october 2014 and shelved the produ
15 May 2016 SPDY — may 2016 is when chrome stopped speaking it, and by then there was nothing left to kill. spdy spent six years as google's experiment in making http fa
16 May 2016 Tvidi — 18 september 2008 is the date the russian internet got a social network for six-year-olds, and it worked: 2.1 million people a month by 2013, most of
18 May 2016 Coin — coin was the kickstarter-style smart card that promised to consolidate every magstripe in your wallet into one bluetooth-connected piece of plastic. k
18 May 2016 Time Warner Cable — comcast tried to buy it first, announcing in february 2014 and spending fourteen months failing to convince washington that one company should carry m
20 May 2016 Bitcasa — bitcasa promised unlimited cloud storage for a flat $99 a year. the math never worked. in 2014 the company killed the unlimited plan, gave subscribers
20 May 2016 MyHabit — gilt groupe sold for a fraction of its billion-dollar valuation in january 2016, and four months later amazon closed the site it had built to beat gil
22 May 2016 TinyOwl — tinyowl was an indian restaurant ordering app started in 2014 by graduates of iit bombay, funded to around twenty-seven million dollars by sequoia and
24 May 2016 Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE — shin megami tensei imagine was the mmo entry in the megami tensei franchise. cave and later gungho developed it under a license from atlus. you played
25 May 2016 Blogdigger — greg gershman launched blogdigger alone in march 2003, indexing about two thousand weblogs with a search engine he had written himself. it placed thir
26 May 2016 DailyFinance — february 2009: aol launched a business news site into the worst month the markets had seen in seventy years, betting that a wire desk crossed with a b
30 May 2016 Dust 514 — dust 514 was a free to play playstation 3 shooter wired into eve online's live universe, built by ccp shanghai and released on 14 may 2013. players on
May 2016 Mobli — israeli photo and video app founded 2010 by the hogeg brothers. leonardo dicaprio was the announced marquee investor, followed by serena williams, lan
31 May 2016 Nosgoth — nosgoth started life as the multiplayer half of legacy of kain: dead sun, a single player game climax studios worked on for three years before square
May 2016 Darkfall — darkfall was a greek-built mmo for people who wanted ultima online before it went soft: one world, no levels, manual aiming, and full loot on every de
31 May 2016 ekiSh — the tagline promised every station in japan, collected and then collected again. opencube built it in shibuya for feature phones in december 2010, whe
1 Jun 2016 BitTorrent Sync — btsync did the thing you would want it to do. two folders on two machines stayed in step over the internet, encrypted end to end, using the exact torr
1 Jun 2016 Arto — morten borg put a page of jokes online in february 1998, and by 2007 it was the largest website in denmark, with eighty thousand danes logged in simul
1 Jun 2016 Poetica — london, june 2014: twitter's first lead engineer launches a text editor whose one good idea is that a suggested edit should look like somebody wrote o
1 Jun 2016 AppSurfer — four school friends in pune spent four years trying to make android apps run without being installed first. they got funded on an indian television sh
4 Jun 2016 MetaMind — salesforce announced the acquisition on 4 april 2016 and gave users one week before deleting what they had uploaded. the free tier stopped on 4 may an
6 Jun 2016 Mafia Wars — mafia wars was the zynga title that lived on neighbor invites. text-mode gangster freemium gameplay where you ran jobs, recruited mafia members from y
6 Jun 2016 Olympe — ninety thousand accounts, seventy thousand sites, five languages, and no advertising anywhere on any of it. olympe was a french nonprofit association
7 Jun 2016 MSN China — msn china was half microsoft and half a shanghai state investment fund, and it was the only national msn permitted to keep its own newsroom and its ow
7 Jun 2016 Firefox Tilt — firefox 47 shipped on 7 june 2016 and the developer release notes carried one line about it: 3d view has been removed. tilt was the webgl thing that t
8 Jun 2016 Facebook Notify — facebook released a separate ios app in november 2015 that did nothing but ping you when cnn or vogue or weather channel posted something. 70 publishe
9 Jun 2016 iMesh — imesh was the rare 2000s file-sharing brand that made it out of the riaa litigation alive by settling for 4.1 million dollars and rebuilding itself as
12 Jun 2016 BearShare — bearshare was the gnutella client that lived on after napster died. december 2000 launch, riaa settlement in may 2006 for thirty million dollars, sold
17 Jun 2016 StarWipe — starwipe was the onion aiming a whole site at celebrity gossip, with sean o'neal running it and tmz as the target. the problem was structural rather t
20 Jun 2016 蜂買 (BeeCrazy) — a tvb supporting actor and two friends pooled seven figures into a hong kong coupon site in july 2010, and in december 2013 they sold it into an austr
21 Jun 2016 Ensogo — ensogo was southeast asia's biggest daily-deals site, born in thailand around 2009 as a local copy of groupon and, for a few years, the place people b
21 Jun 2016 malariacontrol.net — basel had a malaria modeling group and not enough computers, so in 2006 the swiss tropical institute put its simulations on boinc and asked the public
25 Jun 2016 Other Music — fifteen east fourth street, december 1995. a few clerks out of kim's underground opened a shop directly across from the tower records that should have
25 Jun 2016 Flipkart Ping — punit soni came from google to be flipkart's chief product officer and put a messenger inside the shopping app, so you could send a friend a pair of s
28 Jun 2016 CurrentC — a payment app designed by retailers who did not want to pay card fees or hand apple their customer data. it made you scan a qr code at the register in
28 Jun 2016 ninemsn — in 1997 microsoft and kerry packer's pbl put fifty million dollars and their australian internet assets into one joint venture and named it ninemsn. f
29 Jun 2016 Move Loot — $21.8 million went into a company whose real job was carrying other people's sofas down other people's stairs. four friends started move loot in 2013
30 Jun 2016 Apple iAd — iAd was apple's attempt to own the mobile ad layer the way it already owned the app store. steve jobs announced it on stage in april 2010 with a milli
30 Jun 2016 NOTTV — nottv went on the air on 1 april 2012, a subscription television channel broadcast over the old analog vhf band straight into japanese phones for abou
30 Jun 2016 Google Wallet Card — the bancorp bank issued it and mastercard cleared it, which made this the most ordinary object google ever shipped. it existed because money kept arri
30 Jun 2016 Bluebottle — "i now only get emails from mum," the founder said at the launch in august 2002. robert pickup's melbourne webmail answered every unknown sender with
30 Jun 2016 Kamen Rider Megaton Smash — 314 days, ending one minute short of two in the afternoon, with no reason given. eighting invented an entirely original kamen rider story for a pc bro
1 Jul 2016 PlanetSide — planetside tried to be an mmo and an fps at once. the math worked when servers were full of subscribers. when the subscribers thinned, three-faction w
1 Jul 2016 The Toast — the toast was a small independent feminist literary site that ran for three and a half years and built a defining voice in a corner of the english-lan
Jul 2016 DontStayIn — tim aylott and the brophy brothers launched a uk clubbing site in april 2003 under the name yougotspotted.com and rebranded as dontstayin in 2004. thr
Jul 2016 Kaymu — kaymu was rocket internet's marketplace for the parts of the world the big western sites mostly ignored. it launched in 2013 in nigeria and pakistan o
1 Jul 2016 Google Swiffy — swiffy took an adobe flash swf file and gave you back something a phone could render, which mattered because the iphone never ran flash and by 2011 th
1 Jul 2016 Amazon Webstore — amazon spent nine years renting out the software behind amazon.com, first at fifty nine dollars a month plus seven percent of everything sold, later a
1 Jul 2016 Mon.service-public.fr — the french state put every citizen's paperwork behind a single login in early 2009 and switched that login off on 1 july 2016. the account came with a
Jul 2016 GivesMeHope — emerson spartz built mugglenet at twelve and had a company with thirty websites in it by his early twenties. givesmehope was the one that asked reader
5 Jul 2016 THOMAS — the library of congress switched thomas on on 5 january 1995, a day after the 104th congress convened, because congress had decided the public should
7 Jul 2016 Microsoft Pinpoint — seven thousand application listings from thirty thousand vendors, and the product was a sales channel wearing the clothes of a marketplace. pinpoint e
10 Jul 2016 Examiner.com — the philip anschutz local news content factory that paid freelancers per click across two hundred thirty eight american cities. peaked at twenty milli
14 Jul 2016 Rhapsody — rhapsody was the first all-you-can-stream subscription music service with a major-label catalog. listen.com launched it on december 3 2001 from san fr
14 Jul 2016 Highlight — highlight was an ios and android app that ran in the background, watched your gps, and pinged you when a facebook friend or a friend-of-a-friend was w
14 Jul 2016 Spreecast — jeff fluhr sold stubhub to ebay then built a video product where four people could share a screen, an audience could watch, and viewers could raise a
14 Jul 2016 FlightCar — three eighteen-year-olds worked out that an airport parking lot is a fleet nobody is driving, and for three years they were right. you left your car,
15 Jul 2016 Storehouse — storehouse made the most beautiful photo stories on the app store and almost nobody read them. it had an apple design award and a former apple designe
19 Jul 2016 Bitstrips — bitstrips was the 2013 facebook viral moment where everyone built a cartoon version of themselves and posted it as a comic strip. it lasted about ten
20 Jul 2016 KickassTorrents — kickasstorrents was the torrent index that took the top spot from the pirate bay in late 2014, on a cleaner interface and a stricter moderation policy
20 Jul 2016 WooYun — wooyun ran from may 2010 as the place chinese security researchers posted the holes they found, in the open, where the company that owned the hole rea
20 Jul 2016 Exaro — a london investigative news site funded by one man, the city fund manager jerome booth, launched in october 2011 under the line "holding power to acco
23 Jul 2016 Spicy Horse — american mcgee moved to shanghai in 2007 and spent nine years proving a western studio could be run in china for a western audience. alice: madness re
26 Jul 2016 Take Eat Easy — one hundred and fourteen venture funds said no. the one that said yes, a french state-owned logistics group, signed a term sheet in march 2016 and the
27 Jul 2016 Sonic Runners — sonic runners was sonic team's free-to-play endless runner for phones, soft launched in japan and canada in february 2015 and released worldwide that
28 Jul 2016 Gmane — 163,643,204 messages from 15,119 mailing lists, and then the counter stopped. lars magne ingebrigtsen ran gmane out of oslo for fourteen years, mirror
29 Jul 2016 Facebook Paper — facebook's first creative labs app, a magazine-style news reader laid over the feed. you tilted the phone to load photos and subscribed to sections on
29 Jul 2016 ぽこぽこ — usamaru furuya supervised it, and the slogan in the corner of the logo said it was the kind of web serialization space that grows when you praise it,
29 Jul 2016 Princess Connect! — on 7 january 2016 the official account posted that the service would stop at three in the afternoon on 30 june. it stopped on 29 july instead, because
Jul 2016 VHS — dvd rentals passed vhs in june 2003, and the format went on being manufactured for thirteen more years after that. jvc launched it in tokyo in septemb
31 Jul 2016 LoQUo — ebay bought spain's craigslist in may 2005 and closed it on 31 july 2016, eleven years later. ubaldo huerta had started loquo in barcelona in 2002 bec
31 Jul 2016 Symform — two former microsoft engineers, praerit garg and bassam tabbara, looked at the price of a data center in 2007 and decided not to build one. symform's
31 Jul 2016 Kagi — kee nethery built the thing that let a one person software company in finland get paid by a stranger in australia, and he ran it for twenty two years.
Jul 2016 Readlists — arc90 built it as a side project off the readability parser: paste a stack of urls, get back an epub with each article as a chapter. no account requir
1 Aug 2016 Drupal Gardens — drupal gardens was acquia's attempt to make drupal usable by people who would never read a hook_menu doc. it hit a hundred thousand sites at peak. dri
Aug 2016 Yahoo Toolbar — a browser toolbar that mostly arrived on machines the same way spam arrives in inboxes: bundled inside something else, checkbox pre-checked, click nex
Aug 2016 Play.com — three men in their late twenties started a mail order shop on jersey in 1998 and turned a customs rule into a national habit. anything under fifteen p
Aug 2016 Fling — fling let you take a photo and send it to fifty random people anywhere on earth, and the fifty could write back. that got it four million users and, i
Aug 2016 OpenCandy — opencandy was the polite end of the bundling business. it did not hijack your browser or hide from add/remove programs, it just put one extra offer in
1 Aug 2016 Blue Coat Systems — it started in redmond in march 1996 as cacheflow, selling appliances that made pages load faster for internet providers. the dot-com crash took ninety
Aug 2016 Bildirgeç — on 30 january 2002 the front page counted 2,109 posts from 342 members, each one a link somebody had found and wanted to show in turkish. bildirgeç wa
Aug 2016 UKNova — vhs tapes of eastenders, mailed across the atlantic after bbc america dropped the show in 2003, were the first version of uknova. the tracker that rep
Aug 2016 Scion — 173,034 cars in 2006 was as good as it ever got. toyota built scion because its own buyers were getting old and it wanted a badge that twenty-somethin
Aug 2016 Kifi — google wanted the engineers and had no use for the product, which is the whole story. the kifi team announced on 12 july 2016 that it was joining the
Aug 2016 Justcoin — oslo, may 2013: andreas brekken and klaus bugge lund open a bitcoin exchange trading against the norwegian krone. in late october 2014 their bank clos
2 Aug 2016 Windows Journal — windows journal was the note-taking app that shipped with windows xp tablet pc edition in november 2002. it drew on the screen. it saved handwriting i
4 Aug 2016 Togethera — sixty-five thousand people is a respectable number of users and a terrible number of customers. togethera opened in london in 2013 as a private place
5 Aug 2016 Torrentz.eu — torrentz.eu was not a tracker. it was a search-over-trackers, the layer above thepiratebay and isohunt and demonoid that let you compare seeders acros
Aug 2016 Ku6 — ku6 was the beijing user-generated video site founded by kevin li in 2006, the year after youtube. former sohu editor-in-chief li left to build it, to
Aug 2016 Eyegroove — eyegroove was a phone app for making thirty-second lip-sync videos with music and little visual effects, built in san francisco by an interactive-art
12 Aug 2016 Microsoft Project Spark — microsoft wanted xbox one to be a creator platform, not just a console, and project spark was the most literal version of that pitch. you got a starte
12 Aug 2016 Project Spark — less than three years after microsoft put it on a stage at e3, project spark was pulled from the stores. it was a game about making games, free by the
13 Aug 2016 Blab.im — blab.im was a four-pane video chat app shipped from monkey inferno, the workshop that had bought back bebo. it caught the periscope-era live-video mom
13 Aug 2016 Pokémon Uranium — nine years of work by two people writing under handles, released on 6 august 2016 and pulled on the 13th. in between it was downloaded a million and a
15 Aug 2016 Cobook — riga built one of the better address books apple's platforms ever had, and denver bought it. cobook launched in 2011, replaced the stock contacts app
16 Aug 2016 Tsū — sebastian sobczak launched tsu in october 2014 with a 90-percent-revenue-share-to-users pitch that read more like an mlm than a social product. users
16 Aug 2016 Kingsoft Kuaipan — kingsoft kuaipan was one of china's big personal cloud drives, launched in 2010 by the software house better known abroad for its wps office suite. it
17 Aug 2016 Legends of Norrath — legends of norrath was a digital collectible card game sony online entertainment built into everquest and everquest ii, playable from inside either ga
17 Aug 2016 Szánalmas.hu — an anonymous administrator posting as bateman opened a link and picture blog in the autumn of 2002, and by 2005 an econet and medián audit called it t
18 Aug 2016 EveryTrail — on 17 august 2016 everytrail.com was still serving pages. by the following morning it answered every request with a redirect to alltrails.com, and the
19 Aug 2016 AskMe — askme was an indian local-search portal that scaled into a multi-category e-commerce roll-up through 2014 and 2015, buying askmebazaar for goods, mebe
22 Aug 2016 Gawker — gawker was a manhattan gossip blog that became a media company, then decided that publishing a hulk hogan sex tape was within its remit. the verdict c
22 Aug 2016 Picturelife — picturelife wanted to be the calm, safe home for every photo you ever took, back when that still sounded like a business. it got bought by streamnatio
26 Aug 2016 Zwinky — zwinky let teenagers build a cartoon big-head avatar and then, in 2007, walk it around a virtual world called zwinktopia. the real business was the to
26 Aug 2016 Prostopleer — prostopleer, later just pleer.com, was where russia listened for free. a music site that let you find and play almost any track, much of it pulled str
26 Aug 2016 Sunshine Ranch — a beijing studio called rekoo had been running its farm game on facebook for five months when mixi opened its platform to outside developers in august
30 Aug 2016 Washio — washio wanted to be uber for laundry, and for a few venture-funded years it was. you tapped an app and a driver in branded gear came for your dirty cl
Aug 2016 Chromebook Pixel — google built a 1,299 dollar laptop around chrome os and then said out loud that it was a proof of concept. the 2013 screen ran 2,560 by 1,700 at 239 p
Aug 2016 Yahoo GeoPlanet — yahoo geoplanet was the geographic-identifier api built around the woeid, a 32-bit number that named every country, region, town, and named place on e
31 Aug 2016 AppFog — appfog was the paas that started as phpfog, became a heroku competitor, then got swallowed by a telecom that did not know what to do with it. three ye
31 Aug 2016 Club Sunday — two titles. that is what shogakukan opened its first webcomic site with on christmas eve 2008, both of them continuations of series that had already e
Sep 2016 WAYN — wayn stood for "where are you now", a travel and lifestyle social network built in london around 2002. the idea was to pin every place you had been an
Sep 2016 BlogShares — blogshares was a fake stock market for weblogs, written in manchester in early 2003 by one person as a side project. a blog's share price came from wh
Sep 2016 TV Guide Plus — a full week of television listings, on screen, free, arriving through the blank lines at the top of a broadcast picture that were never meant to carry
Sep 2016 Dipity — newsrooms built election timelines on dipity and teachers built history lessons on it, and then one september it stopped answering and nobody wrote an
1 Sep 2016 Genee — ben cheung and charles lee started genee in 2014 to kill the email thread where four people spend two days failing to agree on a time. the public prod
Sep 2016 Mr. Reader — one line on a german developer's homepage ended it: "September 2016: I stopped iOS development and removed all apps from the App Store." mr. reader wa
1 Sep 2016 Kingdom Hearts χ[chi] — on 7 april 2016 square enix said the story of kingdom hearts χ[chi] would come to an end by early september, which is a softer sentence than the one t
2 Sep 2016 Project Ara — project ara was google's modular smartphone. the pitch was an aluminum frame called an endo with slots for swappable parts: a different camera, a bigg
2 Sep 2016 Stockfighter — about forty thousand people signed up to trade on an exchange that did not exist, against an api that behaved like a real one, because three people be
12 Sep 2016 Firefox OS — mozilla's mobile operating system. the whole UI and apps were built in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. the pitch was: every web developer is now a mobile-a
12 Sep 2016 NUfoto — laurens verhagen, then editor in chief of nu.nl, told the dutch trade press in august 2007 that the reader photographs arriving at the news desk were
13 Sep 2016 Apple Game Center — game center was apple's xbox live for the iphone. it launched with iOS 4.1, picked up sixty seven million accounts in its first year, then slowly empt
13 Sep 2016 Sunrise Calendar — sunrise calendar was the new york via paris startup that briefly turned the calendar app into something people actually liked opening. pierre valade a
15 Sep 2016 Vesper — vesper was the notes app from q branch, the small studio john gruber set up in late 2012 with brent simmons and dave wiskus. it shipped on iphone in j
Sep 2016 Desura — desura opened in december 2010 as an indie-first steam alternative from the moddb team. linden lab bought it in july 2013 and offloaded it to bad juju
15 Sep 2016 TorrentHound — the founder's explanation was less traffic and less revenue against bills that kept piling up, which is a rarer obituary for a torrent site than a rai
15 Sep 2016 Mode Media — in 2015 the seventh most visited property on the american internet belonged to a company almost nobody could name. mode media, formerly glam media, ha
16 Sep 2016 Eye-Fi — the wifi sd card that let a digital camera upload to a desktop server without a usb cable. founded in 2005 in mountain view by yuval koren, ziv gillat
16 Sep 2016 Digital Homicide Studios — two brothers in yuma, arizona put around sixty games on steam in two years, most of them assembled out of bought unity asset packs. when people said s
19 Sep 2016 Fairchild Semiconductor — the planar process came out of this company in 1959 and made the integrated circuit manufacturable, which is most of the reason there is a silicon val
20 Sep 2016 Firefox Hello — the video chat button that sat inside firefox itself. you opened a conversation in your browser, sent the link, and the other side joined with one cli
22 Sep 2016 Milk Music — samsung shipped milk music in march 2014 as a galaxy-only free radio app with an optional paid tier. the whole catalog and the recommendation engine r
27 Sep 2016 Racing Musume — when dmm announced this in august 2015 the pitch was that everything from sports cars to lawn mowers was about to become a girl. racing musume deliver
28 Sep 2016 Narrative Clip — a photograph every thirty seconds, roughly two thousand a day, and no shutter to press. memoto raised five hundred and fifty thousand dollars on kicks
28 Sep 2016 Pogoplug — eight days is how much warning cloud engines gave before it deleted everything. the notice went up on 20 september 2016 and the unlimited storage tier
29 Sep 2016 Sudden Attack 2 — sudden attack 2 launched in korea on 6 july 2016 as the sequel to the shooter that had owned korean pc bangs for a decade. twenty three days later nex
30 Sep 2016 Drugstore.com — drugstore.com was the late-1998 pitch that you would order toothpaste from a bellevue warehouse instead of walking to the pharmacy. amazon took a mino
30 Sep 2016 Lokalisten — bavaria had its own social network for eleven years. lokalisten was the version of facebook that prosiebensat.1 spent twenty-five million euros on, wa
Sep 2016 Mxit — mxit was south africa's whatsapp before whatsapp arrived. it ran on the cheap feature phones a teenager could afford in johannesburg or cape town in 2
30 Sep 2016 LEGO Minifigures Online — lego minifigures online was funcom's second try at a lego-branded mmo, announced in august 2013 as free-to-play and shipped on 29 june 2015 as a paid
30 Sep 2016 Marvel: Avengers Alliance — the disney/playdom facebook game where you played a s.h.i.e.l.d. agent recruiting a roster of 166 marvel heroes into turn-based squad battles. launche
30 Sep 2016 Readability — readability was one of the big read-it-later tools of the early 2010s, the button that stripped a cluttered webpage down to just the words and saved i
30 Sep 2016 Zenryaku Profile — six point three million people had a page on it in 2010, most of them japanese schoolgirls answering a questionnaire on a flip phone. zenryaku profile
30 Sep 2016 koebu — 947,287 accounts and 4,382,379 recorded voice clips, counted seven months before the plug came out. koebu was japanese and it was audio only, and it r
30 Sep 2016 Zaption — workday bought zaption on june 30 2016 for the team and the technology, and named the closing date in the same announcement. the platform ran three mo
30 Sep 2016 EZガイドマップ — kddi ran two map products and separated them in one line: ez navi walk told you how to get there, ez guide map told you where to go. you bought a them
Oct 2016 HotBot — hotbot launched in 1996 with the loudest design of any search engine on the web and a back-end called inktomi that updated its index weekly when its r
1 Oct 2016 Grouper — michael waxman and tom brown built it in 2011 out of new york. two strangers each brought two friends, grouper picked the bar and comped the first rou
Oct 2016 Putlocker — putlocker was the streaming index that inherited megaupload's audience. it did not host the files, it just pointed at the hosts that did, which made i
Oct 2016 Matchmaker.com — matchmaker began in 1986 as a matching feature on a texas bulletin board running off an apple ii+, spread city by city as licensed local systems, and
Oct 2016 3DR Solo — dji announced the phantom 3 on 8 april 2015 and 3d robotics announced the solo five days later, which is most of the story right there. the solo carri
Oct 2016 Wawa-Mania — a maintenance page in october 2016 said the reverse proxy was down and the forum would be back in a few hours. it never came back. wawa-mania was a fr
Oct 2016 PriceZombie — two developers in tampa built a price tracker that did the thing camelcamelcamel deliberately would not: compare amazon's history against walmart's, n
1 Oct 2016 Aukro.ua — sixty four thousand sellers were carried off aukro.ua in the autumn of 2016 and almost none of them had to lift a finger: the goods and the hard-won s
3 Oct 2016 Microsoft Band — microsoft band was the wearable everyone forgot. it shipped on 30 october 2014 with a sensor stack that beat fitbit on paper: heart rate, gps, skin te
3 Oct 2016 Consensus Net (共识网) — zhou zhixing spent seven years inside the communist party's own literature office writing about liu shaoqi, then nine more running its publishing hous
3 Oct 2016 K2Kapital — on 3 october 2016 the russian tax service removed ooo k2kapital from the company register, and the reason written on the record is that it was an inac
3 Oct 2016 NhacSo.net — on 3 october 2016 one of the largest music sites in vietnam stopped, eleven years and four months after it opened. nhacso was the one that tried to li
4 Oct 2016 Meerkat — meerkat is the app that taught everyone what livestreaming felt like on a phone, then watched twitter copy it and shut the door behind. peak hype to o
4 Oct 2016 Google Nexus — nexus was google's reference phone, contracted out to a different manufacturer almost every year, running android with nothing added on top and priced
4 Oct 2016 Beacon Reader — five dollars a month, most of it to the one writer you chose, the rest split across everybody else on the site. beacon reader spent three years arguin
Oct 2016 Shots — shots was a selfie app for teenagers who followed justin bieber, and for a while eight million of them showed up. it stripped out comments and like co
5 Oct 2016 Ya.Online — mikhail pishchagin, one of the developers behind the psi jabber client, built yandex a messenger out of psi's own source code and shipped it in septem
6 Oct 2016 Mystery Show — the rule was that the mystery could not be solvable by googling it. six episodes went out between may and july 2015, apple named it the best new podca
11 Oct 2016 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 — the samsung galaxy note 7 was the flagship android phone of 2016 for about seven weeks. batteries began igniting in september, samsung ran a formal re
14 Oct 2016 Visual Studio LightSwitch — $299 bought a microsoft tool that promised to turn a database schema into a working business application without you writing much of anything. it was
17 Oct 2016 United Front Games — united front was a vancouver studio assembled in 2007 out of people who had just come off ea black box and rockstar vancouver. it made modnation racer
18 Oct 2016 ngmoco — neil young left electronic arts in 2008 and started ngmoco on the bet that the iphone was a games machine rather than a phone with games on it. roland
20 Oct 2016 Mixcrate — mixcrate was where mobile djs put their sets so other people could hear them. it ran for seven years on music nobody had licensed, which is the only w
23 Oct 2016 AllMyVideos — an anti-piracy trade report had put this one at just under a million dollars a year in profit on an 85 percent margin. the man running it said the rea
31 Oct 2016 Vessel — jason kilar's post-hulu venture vessel launched in march 2015 with a paid early-access video model. you would pay $2.99 a month for a 72-hour head sta
31 Oct 2016 Mobipocket — two people in paris built an ebook reader for palm pilots and psions in 2000, and invented a file format to feed it. amazon bought the company in 2005
31 Oct 2016 NovaLogic — a medical-imaging engineer named kyle freeman worked out how to draw an entire outdoor landscape out of voxels on a 486, and a small calabasas company
31 Oct 2016 Might & Magic: Duel of Champions — 996 cards across six factions, every deck led by a hero card. ubisoft quebec opened duel of champions to the public on 13 september 2012 as a free-to-
31 Oct 2016 Tom Clancy's EndWar Online — ubisoft shanghai spent roughly three years rebuilding a game that had flopped on consoles in 2008, and the rebuild lasted eleven months. the original
31 Oct 2016 twitterfeed — five million posts a day went through a service with one employee behind it. mario menti built twitterfeed in 2007 to push blog items into twitter aut
Nov 2016 Demand Studios (Demand Media) — the santa monica content factory that owned the ehow and livestrong property cluster and pumped fifteen dollar articles into it at industrial scale. r
Nov 2016 Hailo — three london cab drivers and three tech founders built the app that let you summon a licensed black cab instead of standing in the rain with your arm
Nov 2016 Panfu — panfu was a virtual world for children where you made a panda and explored an island of the same name. a berlin studio launched it in 2007, and by 200
Nov 2016 Livestation — livestation carried live news channels to a computer back when live news was a television arrangement. it came out of skinkers on peer to peer code li
Nov 2016 HitFix — hitfix launched in december 2008 as an entertainment news site built by two people who had done the job inside much bigger companies. it crossed a mil
Nov 2016 Vokle — santa monica, june 2008. robert kiraz and edward dekeratry built a browser page that turned anyone with a webcam into a talk show host, with a queue o
Nov 2016 The Daily Currant — sweden's justice minister once cited a daily currant story about thirty-seven marijuana overdoses in colorado. daniel barkeley's satire blog ran from
Nov 2016 Legitmix — fourteen dollars was roughly what one remix cost you, because you had to buy every song the remixer had sampled before the thing would play. legitmix
1 Nov 2016 Pixelapse — 20,541,100 revisions and about 92 terabytes of design files went through pixelapse before it closed on 1 november 2016. it was git for people who work
4 Nov 2016 Panoramio — panoramio was the photo layer of the old google earth. joaquín cuenca abela's spanish team launched it on 3 october 2005, google bought it in july 200
4 Nov 2016 Army Attack — digital chocolate closed in april 2014 and army attack kept running for another two and a half years without it. the game came out of the company's he
4 Nov 2016 Mythbuntu — on 4 november 2016 thomas mashos wrote that mythbuntu was finished, and the reason was that a team of roughly ten people had become a team of two. for
8 Nov 2016 The Brunei Times — brunei is a small country with a small press, and for ten years this was the paper there that pushed hardest at the edge of what could be printed. the
8 Nov 2016 Fetchnotes — two shutdown dates in nine months, which is more than most products get. a pair of michigan undergrads launched fetchnotes in 2011 as a notes app with
9 Nov 2016 Nasty Gal — nasty gal was the los angeles fashion e-commerce brand sophia amoruso built out of a 2006 ebay vintage store. it moved off ebay in 2008 and took index
10 Nov 2016 Grove.io — three ex-convore founders put grove online in november 2011 selling companies a private irc server with searchable archives, which was a strange thing
10 Nov 2016 @homepage — at three o'clock in the afternoon of 10 november 2016 about 120,000 japanese homepages stopped answering at once. nifty had been giving free web space
14 Nov 2016 Kaneva — kaneva was a free 3d virtual world that ran in the shadow of second life for ten years. you got an avatar, a 3d apartment, a 2d profile page, and embe
14 Nov 2016 Nitrous.io — two weeks was all the notice anyone got. the announcement went up on 31 october 2016, the boxes were deleted on 14 november, and anything paid after t
15 Nov 2016 Portfolio.com — a hundred million dollars bought condé nast a glossy business monthly in april 2007, eighteen months before the financial system it was covering came
16 Nov 2016 Cubby — cubby was logmein's dropbox competitor. its one real differentiator was that any folder on disk could become a sync target without moving into a speci
16 Nov 2016 EX.UA — ex.ua was the largest file host in ukraine, a cyberlocker where a whole country kept and traded its music and its films. it was so woven into ukrainia
17 Nov 2016 What.CD — what.cd was the largest private music tracker in bittorrent history. it opened on october 27, 2007, the same day oink's pink palace got shut down by u
23 Nov 2016 tape.tv — twenty-two days separated the end of youtube's german licensing war from the end of tape.tv. gema and youtube settled on 1 november 2016 and thousands
Nov 2016 Beejive — fifteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, in 2008, for a chat program. beejive charged it because beejiveim did something the iphone could not yet do on
28 Nov 2016 Zone Téléchargement — nassau, in the bahamas, is where the domain was registered in march 2010. the people behind it were two school friends from toulouse who later moved t
29 Nov 2016 Viadeo — viadeo was the professional network france built before deciding linkedin would do fine. it grew to sixty-five million members and spent a fortune try
30 Nov 2016 Mozilla Persona — persona was a mozilla foundation project launched july 2011 under the name browserid, a decentralized authentication system built on email-as-identifi
30 Nov 2016 shomi — rogers and shaw, two canadian cable companies, put their money together and launched a streaming service in november 2014. for the first nine months y
30 Nov 2016 Aupeo — aupeo was a berlin internet radio startup from 2008 that ended up somewhere nobody plans for: the dashboard. by 2015 it was running in five million ve
30 Nov 2016 The UnReal Times — on 30 november 2016 india's best-known satire site stopped publishing, three weeks after demonetisation had handed it more material than it ever had b
Nov 2016 ChangeTip — for a few weeks in november 2014, handing a stranger a few cents of bitcoin by replying to them was a thing the english-speaking internet actually did
30 Nov 2016 Sanrio Characters Fantasy Theater — ten months, january to november 2016, which is about as short as a licensed game from a company this size gets. sega games ran it, sanrio owned the ch
1 Dec 2016 Ghost Recon Phantoms — a free-to-play cover shooter that ubisoft carved out of ghost recon online and rebranded in march 2014. the tactical shooter niche was already crowded
Dec 2016 xoJane — xojane was jane pratt's women's website, the online version of the confessional, first-person magazine writing she had built at sassy and jane. it lau
Dec 2016 e-kolay.net — e-kolay was doğan online's portal, launched in 2000 to sell dial-up hours to turkish households that had never been online, advertised by kemal sunal
1 Dec 2016 Venere.com — four people in rome started taking hotel reservations over the web in 1995, back when most of the italian hotels they were selling did not have an ema
Dec 2016 Sugarscape.com — sugar was a british magazine for teenage girls that started in october 1994 and did not survive its readers moving online. the website it left behind
1 Dec 2016 iPredict — simon bridges, then new zealand's associate minister of justice, declined a small wellington prediction market's application for an exemption from ant
5 Dec 2016 Dot Earth — on 25 october 2007 a new york times science reporter posted about cash prizes for cutting greenhouse gases, and then kept posting for nine years. dot
7 Dec 2016 Pebble — the kickstarter-funded smartwatch from 2012. the original kickstarter raised 10.3 million dollars when 100,000 was the goal. shipped to backers in 201
9 Dec 2016 TiddlySpace — a telephone company paid for this. bt bought jeremy ruston's shop in 2007 and let the resulting open-source team spend years putting tiddlywiki on a s
10 Dec 2016 中国穆斯林网 (China Muslim Net) — on 10 december 2016 somebody reposted an open letter to xi jinping, written by chinese students abroad, into the current affairs board of the largest
12 Dec 2016 ChaCha — chacha was a us-only sms search service from scott a. jones and brad bostic, launched september 1, 2006 in carmel, indiana. you texted a question to t
14 Dec 2016 Kemono Friends (mobile game) — on 14 december 2016 nexon turned off a japanese mobile game that had not worked out. on 11 january 2017 the anime adaptation of that same game went to
15 Dec 2016 Wikimart — wikimart was founded in 2008 by kamil kurmakayev and maxim faldin, two russians who met at stanford and came home to build the marketplace layer for r
15 Dec 2016 Infestation: Survivor Stories — hammerpoint interactive put the war z on steam on 17 december 2012 and valve removed it two days later, because the store page described a game nobody
15 Dec 2016 Chaku-uta (着うた) — on 3 december 2002 a japanese phone could buy thirty seconds of a real recording for the first time, and what made it possible was carrier billing rat
15 Dec 2016 BBC Radio Explorer — jason williams built it in the ten percent of the week the bbc gave its engineers for their own ideas. you typed a subject, it searched every program
19 Dec 2016 Remote TV — the hdmi socket on this box did not carry any picture. it was there to send channel and playback commands to the blu-ray recorder sitting next to it,
22 Dec 2016 ClusterHQ — the board met three days before christmas and voted to stop that afternoon. flocker was the piece that let a docker container keep its data when it mo
23 Dec 2016 CyanogenMod — cyanogenmod was the android rom you flashed when you wanted your phone to be yours. it removed carrier bloat and ran on phones google had stopped upda
24 Dec 2016 Fever° — fever was a feed reader you installed on your own server and paid for once, thirty dollars, no subscription and no company behind it, just shaun inman
26 Dec 2016 Paperman — a client that kept force-quitting killed this one, and the operator said so out loud. gamepot changed development companies in april 2015 and kept run
27 Dec 2016 Absolute Games — two people bought the domain ag.ru in the spring of 1998 and put the first review up on 8 may. for the next thirteen years absolute games was where ru
29 Dec 2016 Devil's Third — devil's third spent seven years passing between publishers before nintendo put it out on the wii u in 2015, where the reviews took it apart. the campa
2016 Yo — yo was a one-button iphone app that sent the word "yo" to a friend as a push notification. there were no other features. it raised one and a half mill
2016 Sony SmartWatch — sony got to the smartwatch market three years before apple did, shipped three generations on three different operating systems, and then quietly walke
2016 51.com — 51.com ran as china's second-tier-city social network out of hangzhou from 2005, founded by pang shengdong on a photos and blogs stack with a games la
2016 ideeli — ideeli ran as a women's flash-sales fashion site out of new york from 2006, founded by paul hurley and mark uhrmacher on a daily-discount email list a
31 Dec 2016 Watchever — vivendi built a german-only netflix competitor a year before netflix arrived in germany, at exactly the same 8.99 monthly price. the first year burned
31 Dec 2016 Basis Peak — intel's fitness watch, launched november 2014, killed by an overheating recall in august 2016 and finished off when the sync service went dark on new
31 Dec 2016 Basis B1 Watch — the first-generation continuous heart-rate wristband from basis science, launched late 2012 for two hundred dollars, discontinued after intel bought t
31 Dec 2016 Compete.com — compete sold estimates of other people's web traffic. you typed in a domain and it handed back a monthly unique visitor count and a rank, worked out f
2016 UMD (Universal Media Disc) — the umd was a 60 millimeter optical disc sealed inside a plastic caddy you could not open, holding 900 megabytes on one layer and 1.8 gigabytes on two
2016 NetGrocer — netgrocer sold groceries by mail order before anybody had a word for it. one warehouse in new jersey next to a fedex hub, stocked with seven thousand
Dec 2016 TakePart — jeff skoll's film company made documentaries with a call to action attached, and takepart was where the call to action lived. it opened in 2008 and gr
31 Dec 2016 The European Library — the european library opened on 17 march 2005 and put one search box in front of the catalogs of forty-nine national libraries, which is something no c
2016 Bionicle — lego was nearly bankrupt when this launched in 2001, and a line of biomechanical action figures with a mythology attached turned into one of the prope
31 Dec 2016 Boredat — butler library at columbia is where it started, in 2006, as a board you could only reach from a columbia.edu address and named after the building peop
2016 Triond — half the advertising money was the offer, and for a few years around 2009 it was a real offer. triond started in tel aviv in june 2006 and worked like
2016 FinanceWorks — you never chose financeworks. it arrived inside your bank's online login in 2008, pulled your accounts together and drew you a budget, and whether you
31 Dec 2016 Breaking News — michael van poppel was a dutch teenager running a one-person news wire when he started the @breakingnews twitter account in 2007. msnbc bought it at t

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