What is 404 Tombstone?
Product Hunt for 404 Tombstone is a digital memorial for the projects, startups, and side hustles that didn’t make it. Because failure isn’t the end, it’s part of the journey. By remembering these projects, we turn dead ends into stepping stones for others.
Problem
Users have no centralized platform to document and learn from failed startups, leading to repeated mistakes and lack of shared knowledge in the entrepreneurial community.
Solution
A digital memorial platform (similar to Product Hunt) where users can document and share stories of failed startups, side projects, or ventures, fostering a community-driven resource for learning from failures. Example: Post-mortems, lessons learned, and metrics from defunct projects.
Customers
Entrepreneurs, startup founders, and product managers who have experienced project failures and seek to share insights or learn from others’ experiences.
Unique Features
Focuses exclusively on failure as a learning tool, crowdsourcing post-mortems and metrics to turn dead projects into actionable knowledge.
User Comments
Valuable for avoiding common pitfalls
Emotionally cathartic to share failure stories
Helps normalize failure in tech culture
Lacks detailed case studies
Needs more structured content categorization
Traction
Launched on Product Hunt (specific metrics unavailable), positioned to tap into the global startup ecosystem where ~90% of ventures fail (CB Insights).
Market Size
The 70-90% failure rate among startups globally (Statista 2023) implies a vast pool of potential contributors, with over 100 million failed ventures estimated since 2000.
