Every one of them had a good day once.
Each entry below launched on Product Hunt, collected its upvotes, and then stopped existing. The launch page usually outlives the product, which is how we find them.
How an entry gets in
1. It launched on Product Hunt and drew real upvotes.
2. A crawler resolves the launch link to the product's own domain and checks whether anything still answers.
3. A human opens it and confirms. Automated flags are a shortlist, never a verdict: plenty of live sites block crawlers.
4. If the company was acquired, it comes out. Getting bought is not failing.
The register
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Scroll the table sideways for status, peak and the evidence links →
| Project | Epitaph | Status | Peak | Check for yourself |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TomeThe storytelling tool for work | $81.6M and 20 million users who loved it. Just not enough to pay for it. Under $4M in revenue, sunset 2025. The decks still load; the company doesn’t. | Domain gone | 696 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| CollatoOne AI search to find anything instantly | $4.7M and a pivot for every season: collaboration, then OKRs, then AI search for product teams. Filed for bankruptcy in 2024. It found everything except product-market fit. | Domain gone | 974 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| PolyworkThe professional network for multi-hyphenates | Raised $40M+ to beat LinkedIn at personality. LinkedIn won by default, then the domain stopped resolving. | Domain gone | 1218 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| HeydayAn AI memory assistant for everything you read | Remembered everything you read on the internet. The internet has already forgotten it back. | Abandoned | 1108 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| ThreadoAI support agent for your community | Raised $3.3M to answer your community’s questions. The last one. “is Threado down?”. Answers itself. | Domain gone | 905 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| theGistA unified AI workspace to supercharge your work | Raised $7M to boil your Slack, email and CRM down to one feed. The gist of the company: closed in 2025, money handed back to investors. | Domain gone | 646 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| SummariWe instantly summarize text | Summarized anything in seconds. The one thing it couldn’t condense was a business model. “people loved it, we never figured out how to monetize it.” | Domain gone | 636 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| MindmeshThe virtual desk that puts you in control | Unified Slack, Jira, Notion and your todos in one desk. The desk has been cleared. | Abandoned | 417 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| SessionsAll-in-one platform for webinars and meetings | The Zoom-killer from Romania. Zoom didn't notice. | Domain gone | 1019 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| ButterVideo calls built for collaborative workshops | Made meetings delightful. The market preferred them miserable and free. | Domain gone | 855 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| Tables by GoogleTrack & automate your team’s work | Google’s Airtable killer, killed by Google. Five years in Area 120, then filed next to Reader and Inbox. | Domain gone | 790 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| Leave Me AloneEasily unsubscribe from spam emails | Unsubscribed you from spam. Then unsubscribed itself from existence. | Domain gone | 770 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| DashblockTurn any website into an API | Turned any website into an API. Then turned into a 404. | Domain gone | 691 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| When To LaunchLaunch your product on the right date and time | Knew the perfect day to launch. Never found one to survive. | Domain gone | 659 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| Design CameraDrag and drop 3D mockups | 3D mockups of a product that is now, itself, a mockup. | Domain gone | 573 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| I Lazy To ReadAuto-summarize any online article | Auto-summarized any article. TL;DR: gone. | Domain gone | 573 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| Spider ProThe easiest way to scrape the internet | Scraped the whole internet. Except a business model. The domain's for grabs now. | Parked | 572 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| ActiondeskA spreadsheet natively connected with apps | A spreadsheet wired to your database. Someone pulled the plug. | Domain gone | 556 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| Haiku AnimatorCreate powerful animations for any app | Animated everything except its own pulse. | Domain gone | 545 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| SlidesCreate beautiful pitch decks that close | Pitch decks that close. It closed. | Domain gone | 532 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| How not to launchLessons on failed products and startups | A guide to failed products. Led by example. | Domain gone | 531 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| FastWorld's fastest login and checkout | One click to check out; fourteen months to check out for good. Backed by Stripe, burning ~$10M a month against almost no revenue. The launch page outlived the company. | Domain gone | 485 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| Animated Icons PackA pack of 100 animated vector icons | 100 animated icons. Zero still moving. | Domain gone | 480 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| ShotsTurn designs into code | Turn designs into code. The domain's the only thing still shipping. Straight to the highest bidder. | For sale | 478 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| TempoAn email client that helps you focus | A calmer inbox, venture-funded. The inbox outlived the calm. | Domain gone | 406 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |
| Storefronts by ElliotLaunch an online store in minutes | E-commerce for everyone, imploding for everyone. Gone before most stores opened. | Domain gone | 387 | launch page ↗ see for yourself ↗ |