A public product autopsy
Every sunset, filed.
A searchable archive of discontinued products and features — so you do not rebuild the same failure with a new name.
143
Products documented
5
Companies
20
Categories
1985–2026
Span of deaths
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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.
Microsoft
Mixer
2016–2020 · 4 yrs
Beam, then Mixer. Ninja’s exclusive did not move the culture. Twitch remained home.
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.
Google Offers
2011–2013 · 2 yrs
Google’s Groupon clone, launched at the peak of daily-deal mania and gone with the bubble.
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.
Apple
iChat
2002–2012 · 10 yrs
Bonjour and AIM bubbles on the Mac. Became Messages when iMessage needed a desktop home.
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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.
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.
Jamboard
2017–2024 · 7 yrs
A $5,000 digital whiteboard. Hardware discontinued; the jam file format lingered, then ended.
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