A public product autopsy
Every sunset, filed.
We document the products and features the industry killed — and why they died. Search the graveyard before you spend six months building the next one.
Explore the archive·File an autopsy
183
Products documented
10
Companies
20
Categories
1985–2026
Span of deaths
Trending autopsies
Ranked by community votes.
Microsoft
Mixer
2016–2020 · 4 yrs
Beam, then Mixer. Ninja’s exclusive did not move the culture. Twitch remained home.
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
1995–2022 · 27 yrs
The browser that won the first war and lost the next three. Retired in favor of Chromium Edge.
Google Offers
2011–2013 · 2 yrs
Google’s Groupon clone, launched at the peak of daily-deal mania and gone with the bubble.
X (Twitter)
Crashlytics (Twitter era)
2011–2017 · 6 yrs
The crash reporter Twitter owned via Crashlytics/Fabric, then sold. Still alive — just not at X.
Adobe
Adobe Flash
1996–2020 · 24 yrs
The plugin that was the interactive web: banners, games, video. Security, mobile, and HTML5 ended it on a published date.
Google Reader
2005–2013 · 8 yrs
The RSS reader a generation of journalists and power users treated as a daily driver. Killed as RSS faded and Google chased social.
Recently laid to rest
Newest death dates in the archive.
Meta
Workplace
2016–2026 · 10 yrs
Facebook for companies. Lost the enterprise war to Slack and Teams; scheduled for shutdown.
Microsoft
Skype (consumer)
2003–2025 · 22 yrs
The call that defined a decade of immigrants, gamers, and interview panels. Retired for Teams.
Meta
Spark AR
2017–2025 · 8 yrs
The effects platform for Instagram and Facebook filters. Sunset as Meta re-concentrated on glasses and Horizon.
Spotify
Car Thing
2021–2024 · 3 yrs
A $90 in-car streamer Spotify sold, then bricked. Production stopped in 2022; devices died on December 9, 2024.
Meta
CrowdTangle
2011–2024 · 13 yrs
The transparency tool researchers and journalists used to watch Facebook. Shut in a political storm.
Google Podcasts
2018–2024 · 6 yrs
A straightforward podcast app retired in favor of YouTube Music.
Add to the record
Product managers, operators, and historians file new entries. Editors review every submission before it is public.