The side project cemetery

Your side project deserves a proper funeral.

Give the app you stopped building a permanent obituary. Tell the honest story, preserve its link, and send curious visitors toward whatever you build next.

Pay your respects ↓

Permanent page · old link + next venture · no login

6 opening examples

3,065 sample build hours

205 ceremonial roses

Postmortems without the posturing

Dead projects tell the truth.

Launch posts celebrate beginnings. Obituaries explain the ending: the false signal, the habit that would not change, the distribution that never arrived. That honesty gives the next builder a head start.

The grounds

Recently laid to rest

The first six are opening examples. Community obituaries will appear ahead of them.

Opening example20232025
18 roses
Opening example20242024
31 roses
Opening example20222025
44 roses
Opening example20252025
27 roses
Opening example20212022
63 roses
Opening example20242026
22 roses

A plot is waiting

Have a project that deserves closure?

The funeral arrangement

Twelve dollars buys closure.

And a surprisingly good introduction to whatever you are building next.

  1. 01

    Write the obituary

    Name the project, cause of death and the lesson worth keeping.

  2. 02

    Pay for the plot

    A secure one-time Polar checkout. No subscription, no account.

  3. 03

    Share the obituary

    Your memorial carries the lesson forward—and points visitors to your next business.

Stop paying its hosting bill

Let it go beautifully.

Keep the lesson. Lose the guilt. Give your abandoned project one last launch—and your next one a little traffic.