tools / graveyard
Tools that have been discontinued, abandoned, or shut down — kept on record so you know what not to build on, and what to use instead.
29 retired tools
The latest write-time checks found phind.com / www.phind.com returning access failures, including Vercel DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND / 404 on at least one route, following earlier audit access-failure signals. Because the public product route is not operating like a normal accessible developer search product, keep Phind in graveyard status and route readers toward current AI search and coding-assistant alternatives.
use instead: Blackbox AI, Codeium
OpenAI deprecated the Assistants API after achieving feature parity in the Responses API. It will shut down on August 26, 2026. Existing integrations should migrate to the Responses API using OpenAI's official migration guide: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/assistants/migration
use instead: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK
GitHub repository archived by Charm; last observed push was 2026-03-09 and no further development is expected.
Official Continue site states that Continue has been acquired by Cursor; standalone Continue is now maintained as historical/graveyard context rather than an active independent coding assistant.
use instead: Twinny, JetBrains AI
Original codeball.ai product domain no longer represents the Codeball PR-triage tool; pricing/app surfaces unavailable; public GitHub Action appears legacy.
use instead: CodeRabbit, Graphite, Panto AI
Windsurf became Devin Desktop on 2026-06-02. Official Windsurf and Codeium Windsurf URLs now redirect to Devin Desktop, while the active product surface continues under the Devin brand.
use instead: Kiro, Trae, Google Antigravity
Legacy Windsurf plan branding was folded into Devin Desktop on 2026-06-02; windsurf.com/pricing now redirects to Devin pricing.
use instead: Cursor Plans, Kiro Plans, JetBrains AI Pro
Roo Code extension was shut down on May 15, 2026. The official RooCodeInc/Roo-Code GitHub repository is archived, the final VS Marketplace release is v3.54.0 from May 15, 2026, and roocode.com now redirects to Roomote. The original team pivoted to Roomote; new IDE-extension users should evaluate Cline or the community ZooCode fork instead.
JetBrains discontinued Fleet on December 22, 2025, refocusing the platform into JetBrains Air — a new agentic development product in preview. Distribution ended via Toolbox and direct download. Existing AI work continues across IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, and other established IDEs through JetBrains AI Assistant.
use instead: GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, StackBlitz
Humanloop team joined Anthropic and official migration docs state the standalone Humanloop platform was sunset on September 8, 2025, with accounts and associated data scheduled for deletion after that date. Keep this page as historical/migration due-diligence content, not as an active SaaS recommendation.
Acquired by Google in May 2025 and rebranded as Google Stitch, launched under the Google Labs umbrella as an AI app builder powered by the Gemini model family. Galileo AI no longer operates as a standalone product — the original usegalileo.ai site now redirects users to Stitch, and former users can import their conversation history into Stitch through the settings page, though imported chats are view-only and cannot be continued. The core UI generation engine now runs on Gemini and benefits from Google's infrastructure, with deeper integrations for Figma export and front-end code generation. Co-founders Arnaud Shen and Helen Zhou joined Google as part of the acquisition.
use instead: Relume, Figma Dev Mode, Anima
WhyLabs, Inc. has discontinued operations. Official WhyLabs docs say the AI Control Center became an Apache-2.0 open-source project on January 23, 2025 and hosted SaaS access for existing customers remained available only until March 9, 2025. Keep this page as a historical/self-hosted OSS handoff for whylabs-oss, whylogs, and LangKit rather than as a current managed-SaaS buying recommendation.
use instead: Beszel, TensorZero
Acquired by AWS in 2023 and rebranded as Amazon CodeWhisperer for command line, then folded into Amazon Q Developer. Standalone Fig was fully discontinued on February 19, 2025. AWS gutted the community-driven autocomplete specs and replaced them with a proprietary AI layer. A cautionary tale of acquisition-by-sunset — the acquirer wanted the team, not the product.
use instead: Atuin, Fish Shell
React deprecated Create React App for new apps on February 14, 2025 because the project has no active maintainers. Existing apps should migrate to Vite or an officially recommended framework such as Next.js, React Router, or Expo. Official notice: https://react.dev/blog/2025/02/14/sunsetting-create-react-app
use instead: Vite
Google ended support for the standalone Web Vitals Chrome extension in Chrome 132 (stable, January 7, 2025); its real-time Core Web Vitals overlay was merged natively into Chrome DevTools' Performance panel. The extension is no longer updated, and its CrUX API key integration faces revocation. Developers should use the built-in DevTools Performance panel or the web-vitals JavaScript library directly instead.
use instead: React DevTools, Vue DevTools, Responsively
The Codeflow branding and dedicated IDE experience was retired in late 2024 as StackBlitz pivoted to Bolt.new — an AI-powered full-stack app generator built on the same WebContainers technology. Instead of a browser IDE for developers, StackBlitz bet on AI-generated apps for everyone. The WebContainers engine lives on, but the "open any GitHub repo in the browser" vision was absorbed into different products.
use instead: StackBlitz, Sandpack
Service became effectively unusable throughout 2024. The platform suffered from persistent downtime, unresponsive support, failed container provisions, and increasingly aggressive pricing with degraded functionality. While the website still exists, the service is functionally abandoned — no meaningful updates, forums filled with complaints, and the mobile apps were delisted. GitHub Codespaces and Gitpod offered everything Codeanywhere promised but with actual reliability.
use instead: GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod
Cloud9’s standalone c9.io era ended after the AWS acquisition, and AWS Cloud9 itself is now a legacy service. AWS documentation states that Cloud9 is no longer available to new customers, while existing customers can continue to use it as normal. The practical replacement path is migration to current AWS developer tools or modern cloud IDEs rather than a revived Cloud9 product.
use instead: GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, StackBlitz
Shut down on June 1, 2024. Despite a passionate community and innovative "personal cloud" concept, Deta couldn't find a sustainable business model with everything being free. The team pivoted to building enterprise developer tools. Users had 30 days to export their data. A reminder that "free forever" platforms rarely are — especially when the business model never materializes.
Copilot X never became a separate product line. GitHub announced it as a 2023 vision for chat, pull-request help, docs context, voice/CLI assistance, and broader AI workflows, but the surviving capabilities were folded into the current GitHub Copilot product and plans rather than a distinct Copilot X SKU. Keep this page as historical context and route readers to the live GitHub Copilot feature and pricing surfaces.
use instead: Pieces for Developers, Cline
Rebranded to Gemini on February 8, 2024. Google merged Bard, Duet AI, and the Gemini model family under one "Gemini" brand. The bard.google.com domain now redirects to gemini.google.com. Bard launched with a factual error in its first public demo (wrong answer about the James Webb Space Telescope), setting the tone for a product that was always playing catch-up to ChatGPT.
use instead: Mistral AI, DeepSeek, Hugging Face
Kong Inc. removed the local-only, open-source option in September 2023 (v8.0), requiring mandatory cloud accounts and login. The GitHub repo was flooded with angry issues and the app's rating plummeted. Developers mass-migrated to Bruno and Hoppscotch. Kong partially reversed course, but trust was destroyed and the OSS community never returned.
Maintainer stopped responding to issues and PRs in mid-2023, with no commits after April 2023. Critical bugs and security issues went unpatched. The community forked it as eza, which rapidly overtook exa in adoption. A textbook case of single-maintainer burnout killing a popular open-source project.
use instead: eza
Rome company dissolved in August 2023 after burning through $4.5M in funding. The scope was too ambitious — replacing the entire JS toolchain at once — while esbuild and SWC solved individual problems faster. Community forked it as Biome, which now thrives as a focused linter/formatter. A lesson in over-ambition vs. incremental value.
use instead: GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod, StackBlitz
Archived on December 15, 2022. After Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018, Atom became redundant alongside VS Code — which used the same Electron framework but had faster performance, better extension ecosystem, and full corporate backing. Atom's slow startup and memory issues drove users away long before the official sunset.
Heroku’s free product plans were phased out in 2022. Heroku’s own “Next Chapter” announcement said free dynos, free Heroku Postgres, and free Heroku Data for Redis would be discontinued, and current Heroku documentation/pricing routes hobby and production users to paid Eco dynos and paid data/app platform plans. Keep this page as a historical free-tier and migration guide, not as a live free-plan recommendation.
Kite shut down on November 16, 2022. The live kite.com route now serves a farewell page explaining that the company was early to AI code completion and could not build a sustainable business before LLM-based coding assistants became mainstream. Keep the page as historical context and direct readers to current coding assistant alternatives.
use instead: Tabnine, Supermaven
Original maintainer declared Lerna "basically dead" in April 2022, adding a banner to the README. Years of accumulated issues, no active contributors, and competition from Turborepo, Nx, and pnpm workspaces made it obsolete. Nrwl (creators of Nx) later adopted the project, but the original open-community Lerna era was over — it became an Nx wrapper.
Travis CI effectively died for open-source after November 2020. A disastrous migration from travis-ci.org to travis-ci.com broke thousands of projects. Then crypto miners exploited free builds, causing Travis to severely limit free tier resources. Idera (owner since 2019) gutted the team, and mass layoffs followed. GitHub Actions launched as a free, native alternative, triggering a mass exodus. Travis CI technically still exists as a paid service, but the free OSS platform that made it legendary is gone.
use instead: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI