Hello everyone.

Recently I developed a new product called [Product Graveyard], a place to store your precious, abandoned, and failed projects.

Its function is very simple. After registering an account, you can post your product information, including name, introduction, current product’s death status (almost dead, dead?), and then fill in your experience and summary of the product. You will then have your own homepage where you can showcase your failed projects to the outside world.

Two days ago, I posted this product on a relevant forum, which aroused sighs of relief and was disliked by various people. for example:

  1. My products are about to be abandoned, why should I still publish them on your platform?

  2. Even if I want to post to your platform, why do you still charge?

  3. Your platform is a fake demand, so let’s take advantage of it.

To be honest, these shocked me. Later, I reorganized and carefully sorted out the product logic.

Develop products -> more and more products -> there will always be products that fail -> don’t want to be forgotten or want to store them somewhere -> product graveyard

I personally think that there should be no problem logically. The key point is to show value to users. So I made the following optimizations:

  1. Modify the hero title of the homepage

It used to be: Kiss your product for the last time, say goodbye to it, and then start over.

Now it is: Brave indies face the death and failure of their products head on, say goodbye to them, and start over.

In comparison, you will find that I emphasized Brave, which I think is an essential quality for an independent developer.

  1. Added renderings

Essentially, this is a social product, so I took a screenshot of the user’s personal homepage and put it on the homepage to display it intuitively.

The latest effect is here https://productgraveyard.app/

Again, I will never be discouraged.

  • Pinty220@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    If I’m a developer why wouldn’t I just make my own webpage (can also use squarespace or wordpress etc) with descriptions of my dead projects, its not very hard. Not something I would pay someone to code for me

    The cool thing would be to look up your idea among the directory of dead projects and see if it exists already and failed (and learn from it if you eant to do it). And see if it is what the y combinator on youtube call a “tar pit idea” which is an idea that seems food that no one is doing but that’s because its secretly a bad idea. Maybe people would pay to view it if the inventory was big enough. But what is the benefit of posting that’s worth money? Showing off projects? I can do that in word or in WordPress. Imagine if it costed money to post to normal social media

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      1 year ago

      Thank you very much for your comment.

      Think about it, you’re not spending a lot of money. But you get more exposure and attract a lot of eyeballs?