Autopsy.io is the anti-Product Hunt: A graveyard of startup failures
Thankfully, Autopsy.io isn’t “Uber for hearses”. Rather, it’s a newly-launched site that collects stories of startup failure, with the aim of sharing the lessons learned with the whole community.
The great thing about the project – which is growing daily – is the bluntness of founders’ reflections on their shuttered startups, with reasons ranging from the brutally personal (“We were naive idiots.”) to the geopolitical (“Consequence of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.”)
The Autopsy.io site itself is very much a ‘minimum viable product’: A spreadsheet that details the name of the startup, the idea, the reason for failure, and links to blog posts and Twitter handles.
The undertakers behind the site are designers Maryam Mazraei and Matthew Davies, who run remote Web studio Milc, and Niral Patel, Marketing Manager at Sameroom.io.
The idea came from a conversation between Mazraei and Davies about the former’s failed menswear brand, Rella. Patel explains...MORE
