The graveyard of good ideas
Solutions that were tried, and what stopped them.
Patents that were rejected or abandoned, products that shut down, projects that went quiet. Borrow the idea, avoid the dead end.
500 solutions
- projectArchived2026
gleez/smtpd
A Lightweight High Performance ESMTP email server
gleez
- projectArchived2026
googleapis/nodejs-pubsub
Node.js client for Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Ingest event streams from anywhere, at any scale, for simple, reliable, real-time stream analytics.
googleapis
- projectArchived2026
es-j3/steam-bottler
Steam Windows gaming in a wine-proton bottle on FreeBSD
es-j3
- projectArchived2026
maizzle/starter-postmark
A Maizzle starter based on Postmark's transactional email templates.
maizzle
- projectArchived2026
letta-ai/letta-chatbot-example
An example chatbot application built on the Letta API, which makes each chatbot a stateful agent (agent with memory) under the hood.
letta-ai
- projectArchived2026
hawkular/hawkular-metrics
Time Series Metrics Engine based on Cassandra
hawkular
- projectArchived2026
00sapo/sp-autoplan
Smart non-AI plugin for automatic scheduling of tasks in the Super Productivity software - smarter and free alternative to skedpal, timehero, flowsavvy, reclaim, trevor, motion
00sapo
- projectArchived2026
EvotecIT/PSEventViewer
Archived: PSEventViewer development moved to EvotecIT/EventViewerX.
EvotecIT
- projectArchived2026
MusikAnimal/pageviews
Pageviews Analysis tool for Wikimedia Foundation wikis
MusikAnimal
- projectArchived2026
gelatodigital/relay-sdk
A fast & reliable transaction relaying API for web3 projects like Games, Bridges, NFT marketplaces and many more
gelatodigital
- projectArchived2026
apoorvdarshan/crossposter
Free, open-source, self-hosted crossposter — compose once and publish or schedule to X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, YouTube, Dev.to, Pinterest, Hacker News, Nostr, and Dribbble from localhost.
apoorvdarshan
- projectArchived2026
microlinkhq/metatags
Ensure your HTML is previewed beautifully across social networks.
microlinkhq
- projectArchived2026
fast/fastimer
This crate implements runtime-agnostic driver for async timers and scheduled tasks.
fast
- projectArchived2026
target/flottbot
ARCHIVED! A chatbot framework written in Go. All configurations are made in YAML files, or inside scripts written in your favorite language.
target
- projectArchived2026
b33eep/claude-code-setup
[Archived] Persistent memory system for Claude Code via Markdown. Concepts moved into dedicated plugins.
b33eep
- projectArchived2026
apache/ossie-temp
Apache Ossie, industry wide specification effort to standardize how we exchange semantic metadata across analytics, AI and BI platforms, providing a vendor neutral, single source of truth for semantic data
apache
- projectArchived2026
IBM/watsonx-ai-platform-demos
AI Agents, LLM Fine-tuning, Developer Productivity, Governance, IBM watsonx
IBM
- projectArchived2026
ttlns/Selenium-Driverless
a stealthy browser automation framework
ttlns
- projectArchived2026
ohnotnow/cronmon
PHP Web app to monitor cron/scheduled tasks
ohnotnow
- projectArchived2026
jiangmuran/noterx
Diagnostic analytics for RED posts, powered by a custom-trained quantitative prediction model, a comment-based audience profiling engine, and multi-round deliberation across five specialized AI agents.
jiangmuran
- projectArchived2026
yueguobin/gns3-copilot
GNS3 Copilot is an intelligent network automation assistant that combines the power of AI with GNS3 network simulation platform. It allows you to manage and configure network devices using natural language commands.
yueguobin
- projectArchived2026
Zimmergren/LogAnalytics.Client
A .NET Core client for sending logs and entities to Azure Log Analytics. Based on the Log Analytics Data Collector API.
Zimmergren
- projectArchived2026
bklit/bklit
Open-source Analytics SaaS
bklit
- projectArchived2026
evanrobertson/EmailValidator
A simple (but correct) Swift library for validating email addresses. Supports mail addresses as defined in rfc5322 as well as the new Internationalized Mail Address standards (rfc653x). Based on https://github.com/jstedfast/EmailValidation
evanrobertson