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  • RIP#01

    Better Life360

    Location-sharing app.

    born + died nov 2 2026

    cause: network effects. Nobody switches off what their friends already use.

  • RIP#02

    Thistlefolk

    Life Buddy: a cozy screen-time companion.

    dead for now

    cause: idk

  • RIP#03

    Stash

    Envelope budgeting with Google Pay.

    cause: idk

    🔍 its GitHub build broke Sept 26 and never got fixed

  • RIP#04

    Vane

    Weather app with a "Now" timeline.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#05

    ReBeam

    Android NFC app.

    cause: idk

    🔍 kept hitting NFC permission and launch bugs

  • RIP#06

    Instinct Launcher

    Private, offline Android launcher.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#07

    Calendar + tasks app

    A calendar and to-do list in one.

    cause: idk

    🔍 never got past mockups

  • RIP#08

    Smart alarm

    Re-rings if your phone sits still.

    cause: idk

    🔍 never left the ideas list

  • RIP#09

    TV Frameo

    Turns a TV into a photo frame.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#10

    Paper-tape calculator

    A calculator that keeps a running tape.

    cause: forgot it ever existed

  • RIP#11

    Innerloop

    Messaging app for close circles.

    cause: idk

    🔍 Lodge and The Fridge cover the friends-sharing part now

  • RIP#12

    Uplink

    A brief and journal, three times a day.

    cause: idk

    🔍 I stopped opening it around mid-Sept

  • RIP#13

    Ai Bot

    Texted me a morning brief over RCS.

    cause: stale and repetitive. It sent the same emails two days in a row. Replaced by Uplink, which also died.

  • RIP#14

    OSINT tool

    Shows friends their own online footprint.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#15

    Instant Rewind

    Pebble app that saves the last 30 seconds of audio.

    born + died sept 9 2026

    cause: battery and complexity

  • RIP#16

    Automatic dart scoring

    A camera that scores darts for you.

    cause: idk

    🔍 Granboard's Gran Eye already does it

  • RIP#17

    NFC emulator

    Fake NFC tags from a phone.

    cause: 20 real NFC tags cost $7

  • RIP#18

    TARS robot

    A 3D-printed TARS from Interstellar.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#19

    Cyberdeck

    A tiny Kali Linux deck.

    cause: idk

    🔍 parts estimate came out to $250–350

  • RIP#20

    Coffee cabinet screen

    A screen built into the coffee cabinet.

    cause: idk

    🔍 the screen alone was $250–500, and a hinged door fights the cables

  • RIP#21

    Haunted OS game

    The Stanley Parable meets Breath of the Wild.

    dead for now

    cause: idk

    🔍 lost the head-to-head to UNSIGNED

  • RIP#22

    Minecraft ARG (Caleb)

    A Bedrock horror world.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#23

    Genesis Protocol (Gregory)

    An AI that lives in a Minecraft world.

    cause: he spent forever researching where to build his house instead of building it

  • RIP#24

    Beat-it-to-unlock ARG game

    Beat the game to unlock a hidden link.

    cause: forgot it ever existed

  • RIP#25

    Pong player

    A bot that plays Pong.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#26

    YouTube Shorts automation

    Shorts that make and post themselves.

    cause: idk

    🔍 YouTube started cracking down on mass-produced AI Shorts

  • RIP#27

    "I'm driving" auto-reply

    Texts people back while you drive.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#28

    GL1TCH

    A sarcastic desktop assistant in Python.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#29

    Problem Timer

    A Pomodoro timer on the Stream Deck.

    cause: idk

  • RIP#30

    KeyBeat

    ???

    cause: idk

[07]

  • UNDEAD#01

    PressTheButton

    Still up. Nobody presses.

  • UNDEAD#02

    Coffee recipe app

    Still up. Nobody uses it.

  • UNDEAD#03

    NerdNav

    Works. Nobody would use it.

  • UNDEAD#04

    403

    NFC procrastination lock.

    cause: idk

  • UNDEAD#05

    Loft

    Cross-platform GamePigeon.

    cause: idk

  • UNDEAD#06

    OpenClaw Foundry

    A nightly product factory.

    cause: idk

    🔍 nothing ever got built

  • UNDEAD#07

    DUM-E

    The SO-101 robot arm route.

    cause: heard the price. The dream still twitches.

[03]

  • REBORN#01

    Three Handsome Guys soap

    died oct 26 2026

    now: 3guysandadog.store shirts

  • REBORN#02

    Meme-sharing app

    reborn nov 1 2026

    now: The Fridge, inside Lodge

  • REBORN#03

    Kinroom / Cove / Nook / Grove

    reborn sept 2026

    now: Lodge. My friends voted for the name.

[11]

  • "The Knock" sounded like a game show
  • Lodge door trap nobody would use it
  • Lodge AI mascot ruled "stupid"
  • Lodge "coat on a hook" placeholder rejected
  • Lodge YouTube music sync Spotify won
  • Busy doors-and-notes friends page too cluttered
  • "Basement LAN Party" scent never been to one
  • THG circular badge logo replaced by tally marks + a paw
  • threehandsomeguysandadog.store too long
  • 403 hard lock swapped for a panic button
  • Earshot, Cairn, Porch, Closer, Orbit, Kith, Inner rejected before Innerloop