graveyard index

Products that shipped, stalled, or shut down, with the lesson kept visible.

tombstone archive

Tombstone files

What each shutdown taught the build that came after.

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Mar 2025
  1. Needles.AI promo art: the needle-N logo over a grid of AI-generated tattoo flash, with the tagline 'Design your tattoo instantly.' DEAD Needles.AI Free to use and run on the cheapest hardware I could hand-build from ex-mining parts — but the model layer had become a capital game, and you cannot thrift your way to a training cluster. Generative AI tattoo service
  2. MeAri onboarding screen: the app logo over the Korean tagline 'the real anonymous SNS we have been waiting for.' DEAD MeAri A post's clock rose with likes and fell with dislikes — but with no crowd to vote, nothing earned more time, so the feed curated itself down to an empty room. Anonymous social app