every dead projectneeds acofounder.find yours.
Founders post real code and the honest reason they stopped. Filter by what it needs — marketing, sales, design — and message them directly. We don't touch contracts or money.
how a project gets a second life
from shelved to someone else's breakthrough.
most projects don't die because they're bad. they die because the founder hit the one wall they couldn't get past.
it stalls.
you shipped it. the product works. but you can't crack sales, or ran out of time, or got pulled to something else. the repo goes quiet.
you list it honestly.
not a pitch — a postmortem. what you built, why you stopped, what it would need to work. five minutes. the listing goes live after review.
someone picks it up.
someone with the exact skill you were missing reads the postmortem, sees the gap, and reaches out. you decide what happens next.
what a listing looks like
the signal is the postmortem.
most marketplaces give you a pitch. afterlife gives you the founder explaining what actually went wrong.
cleo
ai voice receptionist for after-hours calls at small businesses.
why i moved on
“i couldn't crack outbound sales. the product worked well for plumbers and hvac companies, but i'm a builder, not a cold caller. someone who can sell to local businesses would print money with this.”
↑that one paragraph tells you this is a distribution problem, not a product problem.
why this works
not flippa. not an idea board.
afterlife is for real software that stalled on distribution, not ability. every listing has code, a story, and a human behind it.
real code, not napkin sketches
commit histories, working deploys, sometimes real users. the 0-to-1 is done.
the founder tells you why
every listing has an honest postmortem. you know exactly what went wrong before you reach out.
direct intros, no middlemen
no auction, no bidding, no fees. express interest, get connected, figure out the rest yourselves.
on the shelf right now
working codebases with real stories.
every listing has signal, not spin. browse by category, stage, or stack.
Stylisterr
AI fashion styling app that generates personalized outfit recommendations for specific occasions.
TailorCV
Chrome extension that detects a LinkedIn job description, tailors a user's base resume with an LLM, and exports an ATS-friendly PDF.
Praxio
AI veterinary consultation transcription and SOAP-note generation software.
two sides
list a project or find one.
i built something and stopped
give it a second life.
describe what you built.
paste a prompt into claude code or fill out the form. takes five minutes.
write the real story.
not a pitch. a postmortem. what blocked you, what it would need, what you learned.
get notified when someone's interested.
you'll get an email. you decide whether to talk.
i want something to work on
start from working software.
browse projects with real history.
codebases with commits, screenshots, and founders who tell you exactly where it stalled.
read the postmortem.
ran out of time vs couldn't sell — very different signals. the postmortem tells you which.
pick it up.
buy it, co-found, collaborate — whatever works. no middleman.
don't see what you're looking for yet?
new projects land every week. drop your email and we'll let you know when something matches what you're after.
no spam. just new projects, once a week.
next.js saas with paying users that stalled on churn
healthtech mvp that needs someone with domain access
dev tool with github stars but no monetization
still here?
that project deserves better than a private repo.
list it. write the real story. let it find the person who has what you were missing.
list your project