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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Jul 2026
  1. AIWAR command board showing U.S. Frontier versus China Open-Weight, live wire signals, and an editorial impact index. DEAD AIWAR AIWAR ran for roughly three months, but the only steady traffic was bot traffic. Ordinary user demand never showed up, while NBFS passed AIWAR's three-month traffic in two weeks. AI intelligence board
  2. PopSmart Clerk: 'AI virtual store clerk — assist your shoppers,' beside a storefront with a real-time product-match message. DEAD PopSmart Clerk The first Clerk version shipped and then went private, but clear merchant demand never showed up. The product has now fully pivoted, so the original AI store-clerk version belongs in the graveyard. Shopify AI experiment
  3. 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
  4. 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