Discover / Retired tools
Explore the record of tools that have been discontinued, abandoned, or shut down. Read what is known about their status and look for available alternatives, so you can assess dependencies in an existing workflow or investigate a replacement before starting something new.
33 retired tools
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
The original Rome project was discontinued in 2023 following the dissolution of Rome Tools Inc. The project was officially forked and lives on as Biome (biomejs.dev).
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
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