Show HN: RIP MY BUILD, a cemetery for failed side projects
RIP MY BUILD is a new site where developers can memorialize and share their failed side projects, launched by HN user horiajurcut.
RIP MY BUILD launched on August 25, 2026 as a self-described "cemetery for failed side projects," giving developers a place to publicly memorialize the software they built but never shipped — or shipped and quietly buried, per a Show HN post by its creator, HN user horiajurcut.
The site, accessible at ripmybuild.com, invites builders to submit their abandoned or defunct projects, effectively turning the graveyard of half-finished work into a shareable, browsable archive. The premise plays on the cultural norm in developer communities of spending nights and weekends on side projects that never reach users.
No funding, team size, founding date, or business model is described in the Show HN submission. The post carries 4 points and no comments at time of writing, suggesting the launch is in its very early stages.
The concept taps into a recurring theme on Hacker News, where threads about failed or abandoned projects routinely attract large comment counts and a degree of collective catharsis. Sites like Killed by Google have demonstrated appetite for cataloguing dead software, though those focus on corporate discontinuations rather than individual developer projects. RIP MY BUILD appears to occupy the personal, indie end of that spectrum — closer to a public confessional than a product graveyard tracker.
No roadmap, expansion plans, or monetization details appear in the available source material.
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