What is 404tomb?
A digital graveyard for forgotten startups, where cold ambitions sleep and lost code lies in frost—no mourning, just monuments to the internet's silent failures.
Problem
Users lack a centralized platform to document and reflect on failed startups, leading to forgotten lessons and unmemorialized ventures.
Solution
A digital graveyard platform where users can create digital tombstones for dead startups, including details like founding dates, funding, and failure reasons. Example: A tombstone for a defunct AI chatbot startup.
Customers
Startup founders, investors, tech historians, and entrepreneurship educators analyzing failure patterns.
Unique Features
Focuses exclusively on commemorating startup failures, offering a curated space to document post-mortems and lessons learned.
User Comments
Helps process grief over failed ventures
Valuable resource for startup research
Dark humor appeals to tech community
Encourages transparency about failure
Needs more interactive features
Traction
Launched on Product Hunt (exact metrics unavailable), positioned as a niche community-driven project.
Market Size
With 90% of startups failing globally, millions of potential memorialization targets exist in the $4.4 trillion startup ecosystem.
