The graveyard.

Sunsetting an app is a strange kind of failure. Nobody got hurt, no money changed hands that shouldn’t have, and in each of these cases the thing itself did what it was built to do. It just stops being worth the upkeep — the hosting bill, the OS update that breaks something small, the hour a month that’s better spent on Bobara now. That’s a harder decision than it sounds, because it means admitting something you built and were proud of has reached the end of its useful life, on your own say-so, with nobody asking you to make that call.

I don’t think that makes them failures. Every app is a lesson learned, even when they die, and each of these taught me something I still use.

Every app is a lesson learned, even when they die.

If you want the full story on any of them, their case studies are above. Back to the rest of the work.