About
A marketplace for the apps the AI built and nobody launched.
Failedups is where half built projects find new builders. Most of what's on here got prompted into existence with an AI tool, sat at around 80 percent done for a while, and now needs someone with the time to take it across the finish line.
What Failedups is
A marketplace for half built apps. Most of what's listed here got started on a Saturday in Claude Code, hit the wall by Monday, and never got opened again. Some of them sell for a few hundred dollars. Others find a cofounder who picks up where the original builder left off. Either way, they get a second chance instead of rotting in a private repo.
The market for finished SaaS has been around forever. Acquire, Flippa, MicroAcquire. They deal in polished products with paying users, lawyers, earnouts. We don't.
We deal in the messier stuff. 60 percent built MVPs. Working deploys that never got a launch page. Cofounder seats with no asking price. Most listings here go for $300 to $5,000, buyers and sellers transact directly, and we don't take a cut of any of it.
It's small on purpose. We're not trying to scale. We're trying to be the place where the next decade of AI built projects finds a home when the original builder moves on to something else.
What we believe
Four things that decide every product call we make.
Honest beats polished
Every listing has a candid note from the founder explaining what's actually going on. 'I lost interest' is a fine reason. So is 'I built this in a weekend with Lovable and forgot about it.' We don't push sellers to invent some heroic momentum story that didn't happen.
No commission, ever
We don't touch the buyer or seller transaction. Whatever price the two of you agree on is what changes hands. We make money on one optional boost feature and that's it. No percentage of the sale, no escrow cut, no surprise fee that shows up later.
AI built is welcome
Most of the listings here got built with Claude Code or some other AI coding tool. The buyers know this, and honestly, most of them are using the same kind of stuff to finish what they buy. Nobody's asking 'did a human type every line of this.'
Close the loop
The point of this place isn't running transactions. It's making sure half built projects get a real second chance instead of disappearing into a private repo forever. Sometimes that means a sale. Sometimes it's a cofounder partnership. Other times it just means the founder gets a clean way to move on.
Right now
Failedups is small and early. The numbers below are live, so they update the moment a listing gets published or revived.
- Projects listed
- 29
- Projects revived
- 5
- Commission taken
- 0%
Why I built this
There's a moment most builders eventually hit, where you open your projects folder and see how many of them you're never opening again.
Mine was last winter. I had eleven half built things sitting in there, all with working deploys, a couple with real users, all just frozen.
I tried passing a few of them on through the existing acquisition platforms and got nowhere. They were too messy, too unfinished, too small for what those places want. The only options I could see were 'delete the folder' or 'invent a polished momentum story that wasn't true.' Neither sat right.
So I built the place I needed that day. Free to list, no commission on sales, no broker pretending to add value in the middle. The founder's email goes to a real human, which in this case is me.
Got a project gathering dust? Pass it on.
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