StartupGraveyard
Every startup parks here eventually.
IgnitionNever left the drawing board.
Died before they became startups. Ambition without an ignition.
A pulse. Not a promise.
Still running, with a documented, dated distress event. Still operating as of source date; not a verdict.
Dashboard Live Feed — auto-pulled, unchecked
UNVERIFIEDHacker News stories matching insolvency, going concern, layoffs or missed payroll. Not reviewed, not part of the sourced entries above.
Connecting to the wire…
Here lies the next lesson.
The main graveyard. Big dreams, hard endings, and something worth remembering.
- Y Combinator directory mirror (yc-oss) — unofficial, updated daily; status “Inactive” only. SOURCE-LISTED.
- Wikipedia — text and facts used under CC BY-SA, attributed per record.
- Hacker News API — Live Wire and Dashboard feed. UNVERIFIED.
- Failory cemetery and Failory founder interviews — public crawling allowed by robots, but no bulk reuse licence found; basic facts only, our own short descriptions. SOURCE-LISTED.
- SaaS Heaven (saasheaven.space) — MIT licence, attributed.
- Wikidata (CC0) with linked Wikipedia articles — Open Data Inbox only, separate from The Boot. UNVERIFIED.
- News reports — exact article linked per record.
- Curated entries — hand-checked news and primary sources, linked per record.
- Student submissions — UNVERIFIED until reviewed.
- Failory cemetery: 62 unique (70 gross)
- Failory founder interview: 61 unique
- Wikipedia: 52 unique
- Inc42: 19 unique
- TechCrunch: 7 unique (8 gross)
- Reuters: 3 unique
- Rest of World: 1 unique
- CNBC-TV18: 1 unique
- Economic Times: 1 unique
- Entrackr: 1 unique
- OfficeChai: 1 unique
- Times of India: 1 unique
- The Verge: 1 unique
- Business Wire: 1 unique
- Business Insider: 1 unique
- SaaS Heaven founder post-mortem (MIT): 1 unique
- Healthcare Dive: 1 unique
- Founder post-mortem: 1 unique
Fresh arrivals — pending verification
UNVERIFIEDNo fresh arrivals yet. The next story could be yours.
The last signals.
Keyword-matched discovery, not verified shutdown news: Hacker News titles containing explicit shutdown or closure terms, shown as UNVERIFIED candidates. Never added to The Boot automatically.
Connecting to the wire…
Listed as dissolved. Not yet reviewed.
Every company Wikidata (CC0) records with a dissolution date and an English Wikipedia article, refreshed slice by slice across the full result set and live for recent dissolutions. Shown exactly as listed: name, country, founded and dissolved years. “Dissolved” there can also mean merged, acquired or renamed; no cause is recorded and none is guessed. Records are never dropped once seen. Kept separate from The Boot and badged UNVERIFIED until reviewed.
Is it really a startup ending?
Student reviewers: give a Wikidata record (e.g. Q12345 or its link). We fetch its facts and linked Wikipedia article (or use the article text you paste), and Lovable AI judges whether it is a startup shutdown, extracts closure details with verbatim quotes, and flags likely duplicates across the museum. Quotes are checked against the article text; unmatched quotes are marked. Results are AI assessments, UNVERIFIED, and never added to The Boot automatically.
Every ending
has a lesson.
Know a startup that belongs here?
Leave its story for the next founder.
How we label every record.
We checked a primary or reputable source. The link is on the plaque.
A directory lists it (e.g. “Inactive per YC directory”). Cause unknown, recorded as “Not recorded”. Not called failed or bankrupt. Historical sources (Failory, SaaS Heaven) are dated, source-listed evidence, not independent current-status verification, and count as UNVERIFIED for the verified filter.
Auto-fetched (Hacker News, Wikidata open data inbox) or a student submission not yet checked.