RethinkDB In their own words 2017
RethinkDB: why we failed
When we announced that RethinkDB is shutting down, I promised to write a post-mortem. I took some time to process the experience, and I can now write about i...
Filed under
Pricing / unit economics
The numbers underneath: what it cost to serve, and what it sold for.
11 accounts, each written or told by the founder it happened to, filed here because that is what they said it was about.
Sidecar In their own words 2015
So long Sidecar and thanks
Today is a turning point for Sidecar as we prepare to end our ride and delivery service so we can work on strategic alternatives and lay…
Placemark In their own words 2023
Placemark is going open source and shutting down
Sandstorm In their own words
Sandstorm Oasis Is Shutting Down
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
SiteChat In their own words 2012
SiteChat: a postmortem. Or, the rise and fall of a society.
About a year ago I built a Chrome extension called SiteChat -- the premise was simple: turn every website into a chatroom. The app was an instant success, and over the following year I watched entire…
Autto.in Interview India
Autto.in: Burning $15,000 in Customer Acquisition
Autto.in was an on-demand doorstep car service provider. They spent lots of money on customer acquisition, but retention was bad, so it shut
Shalin Bhatt In their own words 2023 India
Startup Failure: End of a 2-year Journey
Building anything in ConsumerTech in India is very expensive and even as we proved we were 30-50% more cost-efficient than similar businesses, it still wasn't good enough to build deep conviction that there was a near-term path to making money here.
Shubham Bansal In their own words 2024 India
How to know if it's time to shut down your startup?
I shutdown my 3rd startup in May 2024. First 2 failed too.
Ayush Chaturvedi In their own words 2023
After 60 issues, 13 months and $13 MRR I shut down my paid newsletter - 7 hard lessons I learned
After 60 issues, 13 months, 2000 free subs, I could only reach $13 MRR. I shut it down and pivoted to a sponsorship model.
colive values In their own words 2024
After 19,314 lines of code, i'm shutting down my project
The economics of colive values weren't strong enough to justify going all-in. Without external funding (which I wasn't keen on pursuing), the bootstrap path wasn't viable.
Elliot Bonneville In their own words 2020
Failed SaaS Post-Mortem: Validate Your Pricing Model (Like I Didn't)
I just spent about three weeks bootstrapping a SaaS as a solo founder. The basic concept was solid: provide an insanely simple way for business intelligence consultants to manage project data. Spoiler alert: it failed miserably.
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