Compiled at build time

The arithmetic of loss

Numbers never wrote the eulogies, but they did help identify repeat offenders.

Total entries 219
Companies responsible 42
Most deadly year 2025
Most deadly company Shopify

Cause of death

How they went out

Shutdown
60
Acquired
2
Paywalled
11
Deprecated
144
Rate limited
2

Deaths per year

When the ground moved most

2008
0
2009
0
2010
0
2011
12
2012
3
2013
2
2014
0
2015
8
2016
6
2017
1
2018
0
2019
10
2020
12
2021
13
2022
29
2023
26
2024
26
2025
60
2026
11

Category breakdown

Where the bodies clustered

Hosting

2

Database

3

Auth

11

Email

5

Storage

3

Social

14

Maps

1

Payment

3

Messaging

9

Analytics

8

Translation

4

Search

10

Media

5

Monitoring

4

Other

137

Hall of shame

Top five killers

  1. 1
    Shopify

    76 total kills:

  2. 2
    Google

    47 total kills:

  3. 3
    Salesforce

    25 total kills:

  4. 4
    Meta

    7 total kills:

  5. 5
    GitHub

    5 total kills:

Most mourned

Entries with the longest alternatives lists

2

Apple App Store Connect XML API (Game Center)

3 alternatives listed

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3

Apple App Store Connect XML API (In-App Purchases)

3 alternatives listed

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4

Apple UIApplicationDelegate Protocol

3 alternatives listed

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5

Apple UIRequiresFullScreen Key

3 alternatives listed

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