# Still Up Since

> A catalog of software that outlived the rumor it was finished. Each entry has a founded date, a verdict stamp, and a clock.

Public catalog. No accounts, no authentication, no payments. The public pages may be used for training and inference.

Verdicts are editorial JSON: Standing (still-up, the moat is real), Wavering (wobbling, something is at the door), Hollow (zombie, lights on, nobody home), Closed (down, the clock stopped). Submitters may suggest a stamp; it is not live until review. Hunt rows from Product Hunt stamp Standing until an editorial card exists.

HTML pages also answer as markdown when Accept includes text/markdown, the user-agent is a known AI crawler, or format=md is set.

## Docs

- [Still Up Since](https://stillupsince.com/): the catalog wall
- [Catalog markdown](https://stillupsince.com/catalog.md): every product as markdown
- [Live](https://stillupsince.com/live): who is on the wall right now, country only
- [Suggest a product](https://stillupsince.com/submit): name, URL, founded date, suggested stamp
- [Closed](https://stillupsince.com/graveyard): products whose clocks stopped
- [Agent notes](https://stillupsince.com/ai.txt): what to index, what not to POST
- [Agents](https://stillupsince.com/agents.md): no MCP, no accounts

## Catalog

- [1Password](https://stillupsince.com/1password): founded 2006-05-18, Standing. A password manager that families and companies both trust is a rare overlap.
- [Amazon](https://stillupsince.com/amazon): founded 1994-07-05, Standing. Logistics is the moat. The website is a storefront on a warehouse network.
- [Apache HTTP Server](https://stillupsince.com/apache-http): founded 1995-12-01, Standing. It named the dominant server of the first web, and shared hosting never fully left.
- [AWS](https://stillupsince.com/aws): founded 2006-03-14, Standing. S3 and EC2 became the nouns. Every other cloud is compared to them.
- [Basecamp](https://stillupsince.com/basecamp): founded 2004-02-05, Standing. It is the product of a company that treats not growing as a feature.
- [Bash](https://stillupsince.com/bash): founded 1989-06-08, Standing. It is the default shell on a billion machines even when it is not your login shell.
- [BBEdit](https://stillupsince.com/bbedit): founded 1992-04-12, Standing. Bare Bones never tried to become an IDE platform. It stayed a text editor that is extremely good at text.
- [Bitcoin](https://stillupsince.com/bitcoin): founded 2009-01-03, Standing. It is a bearer asset with a fixed schedule and no CEO to subpoena into a pivot.
- [Bitwarden](https://stillupsince.com/bitwarden): founded 2016-08-10, Standing. Open source plus a hosted option plus a price that does not insult you.
- [Blender](https://stillupsince.com/blender): founded 1994-01-02, Standing. The 2002 community buyout turned a doomed in-house tool into a public good. That origin story still funds it.
- [Google Chrome](https://stillupsince.com/chrome): founded 2008-09-02, Standing. It made the browser fast, then made the browser into an OS, then made the web into Chrome.
- [Cloudflare](https://stillupsince.com/cloudflare): founded 2010-09-27, Standing. It sat in front of the web as CDN + DNS + shield, then became a compute platform without asking you to leave.
- [Clubhouse](https://stillupsince.com/clubhouse): founded 2020-03-01, Hollow. A moment: invite-only audio in a pandemic. The domain is still resolving.
- [Craigslist](https://stillupsince.com/craigslist): founded 1995-03-01, Standing. It looks like 1996 on purpose. The ugly is the filter. People who want to transact stay.
- [curl](https://stillupsince.com/curl): founded 1997-11-11, Standing. It is in everything. Cars, printers, phones, install scripts, the kitchen sink.
- [Digg](https://stillupsince.com/digg): founded 2004-12-01, Hollow. The name still means 'we redesigned and died' in every product meeting.
- [DigitalOcean](https://stillupsince.com/digitalocean): founded 2011-06-01, Standing. A droplet with a price you can hold in your head. That was the whole pitch versus AWS.
- [Discord](https://stillupsince.com/discord): founded 2015-05-13, Standing. Voice that works plus a server as a home page. Games were the wedge. Everything else followed.
- [Django](https://stillupsince.com/django): founded 2005-07-21, Standing. Batteries included is still a selling point after twenty years of microframeworks.
- [Docker](https://stillupsince.com/docker): founded 2013-03-20, Standing. A Dockerfile is a unit of thought. Kubernetes did not replace that noun.
- [Dropbox](https://stillupsince.com/dropbox): founded 2007-06-01, Wavering. The folder that syncs was a magic trick in 2008 and is still the mental model.
- [DuckDuckGo](https://stillupsince.com/duckduckgo): founded 2008-09-25, Standing. Privacy as a default is a brand you can actually feel in the settings.
- [eBay](https://stillupsince.com/ebay): founded 1995-09-03, Standing. Auctions plus used goods plus collectibles is a graph Facebook Marketplace still cannot fully price.
- [Emacs](https://stillupsince.com/emacs): founded 1976-03-01, Standing. It is a Lisp machine that happens to edit text, so every generation reimplements their life inside it.
- [Email](https://stillupsince.com/email): founded 1971-10-01, Standing. It is the only identity layer the internet agreed on.
- [Evernote](https://stillupsince.com/evernote): founded 2008-06-24, Hollow. Elephant brand recognition and a pile of old notebooks people are afraid to export.
- [Facebook](https://stillupsince.com/facebook): founded 2004-02-04, Wavering. The social graph of people over 30, plus Marketplace, Groups, and WhatsApp as the actual prize.
- [FFmpeg](https://stillupsince.com/ffmpeg): founded 2000-12-20, Standing. Every video product is FFmpeg with a UI. Including the ones that will not say so.
- [Figma](https://stillupsince.com/figma): founded 2016-09-27, Standing. Multiplayer design in a browser ended the 'final.psd' era.
- [Firefox](https://stillupsince.com/firefox): founded 2004-11-09, Wavering. It is the last major browser engine that is not Chromium or WebKit, and that matters even when share is small.
- [Flickr](https://stillupsince.com/flickr): founded 2004-02-10, Hollow. Photographers who refuse Instagram still have originals there.
- [Ghost](https://stillupsince.com/ghost): founded 2013-10-14, Standing. A nonprofit CMS that is also a membership business. Writers who outgrew a newsletter still land here.
- [Git](https://stillupsince.com/git): founded 2005-04-07, Standing. Linus wrote it in anger in a few days and the distributed model made every other VCS look centralised and slow.
- [GitHub](https://stillupsince.com/github): founded 2008-04-10, Standing. It is where the code is. Resume, package registry, CI, identity, and the social graph of software.
- [Gmail](https://stillupsince.com/gmail): founded 2004-04-01, Standing. A gigabyte of free storage in 2004 was a weapon. Search-as-the-model still is.
- [Go](https://stillupsince.com/go): founded 2009-11-10, Standing. A Google language that is boring on purpose. Boring compiled to a single binary is a career.
- [Google Maps](https://stillupsince.com/google-maps): founded 2005-02-08, Standing. The default for 'how do I get there' on Android and in the browser.
- [Google Search](https://stillupsince.com/google): founded 1998-09-04, Wavering. It is still the default, and defaults on phones are a government.
- [Gumroad](https://stillupsince.com/gumroad): founded 2011-01-01, Standing. Sahil Lavingia kept it alive through a near-death and turned that into the company story.
- [Hacker News](https://stillupsince.com/hacker-news): founded 2007-02-19, Standing. It is ugly, slow to change, and moderated like a dinner party. That is the filter.
- [Heroku](https://stillupsince.com/heroku): founded 2007-01-01, Hollow. git push heroku main taught a generation what PaaS felt like. That memory still sells the brand.
- [HEY](https://stillupsince.com/hey): founded 2020-06-15, Wavering. A point of view: the Screener, the Feed, the Imbox. Email as a product again.
- [Homebrew](https://stillupsince.com/homebrew): founded 2009-05-20, Standing. It is how a Mac gets Unix software. That sentence has been true for a long time.
- [ICQ](https://stillupsince.com/icq): founded 1996-11-15, Hollow. The number. People still remember their ICQ UIN the way they remember a first phone number.
- [Instagram](https://stillupsince.com/instagram): founded 2010-10-06, Standing. It owns a format (the square, then the story, then the reel) and a kind of identity.
- [Internet Archive](https://stillupsince.com/internet-archive): founded 1996-05-12, Standing. It is the memory of the web, and even companies that sue it still need the Wayback Machine.
- [IRC](https://stillupsince.com/irc): founded 1988-08-01, Standing. It is a protocol, not a company, so there is no acquisition to survive.
- [JavaScript](https://stillupsince.com/javascript): founded 1995-12-04, Standing. It is the only language the web runtime will not let you uninstall.
- [Jira](https://stillupsince.com/jira): founded 2002-04-12, Standing. Enterprises do not migrate issue trackers. They hire admins.
- [jQuery](https://stillupsince.com/jquery): founded 2006-08-26, Hollow. It is still on a terrifying number of pages because WordPress plugins and old dashboards never die.
- [Kickstarter](https://stillupsince.com/kickstarter): founded 2009-04-28, Standing. All-or-nothing crowdfunding plus a public page is still how a certain kind of object gets born.
- [Kubernetes](https://stillupsince.com/kubernetes): founded 2014-06-07, Standing. Google donated the Borg-shaped idea and every cloud had to speak it.
- [Laravel](https://stillupsince.com/laravel): founded 2011-06-09, Standing. It made PHP feel like a modern framework again: artisan, Eloquent, the docs, the people.
- [LastPass](https://stillupsince.com/lastpass): founded 2008-09-01, Hollow. Inertia. Vaults are sticky even after you no longer trust the landlord.
- [Linear](https://stillupsince.com/linear): founded 2019-01-01, Standing. It made issue tracking feel like a product instead of a database with workflow.
- [LinkedIn](https://stillupsince.com/linkedin): founded 2003-05-05, Standing. It is the resume that other people can see, and hiring still starts there.
- [Linux](https://stillupsince.com/linux): founded 1991-08-25, Standing. It became the default computer, then hid inside phones, TVs, cars, and the cloud.
- [LiveJournal](https://stillupsince.com/livejournal): founded 1999-04-15, Hollow. A Russian-speaking and fandom diaspora that never fully moved.
- [Mailchimp](https://stillupsince.com/mailchimp): founded 2001-01-01, Wavering. It taught small business what an email campaign was, with a chimp and a free tier.
- [MapQuest](https://stillupsince.com/mapquest): founded 1996-01-01, Hollow. The printed directions era. AOL ownership. A brand that still ranks for 'directions' among people who learned the web in 2003.
- [Medium](https://stillupsince.com/medium): founded 2012-08-14, Wavering. The editor and the URL still mean 'a post that looks like a post'.
- [MongoDB](https://stillupsince.com/mongodb): founded 2009-02-11, Standing. Document as default was a real relief from ORMs, and Atlas made it a business.
- [Myspace](https://stillupsince.com/myspace): founded 2003-08-01, Hollow. Musicians and a nostalgia brand. Justin Timberlake's era kept it from a clean funeral.
- [Netflix](https://stillupsince.com/netflix): founded 1997-08-29, Standing. It ate the video store, then ate cable, then spent like a studio.
- [nginx](https://stillupsince.com/nginx): founded 2004-10-04, Standing. The config you paste when Apache feels like a museum.
- [Notion](https://stillupsince.com/notion): founded 2016-03-01, Wavering. It is a Lego set: docs, databases, wikis, and a template economy.
- [Obsidian](https://stillupsince.com/obsidian): founded 2020-03-30, Standing. Local markdown files. You can leave. Paradoxically that is why people stay.
- [Patreon](https://stillupsince.com/patreon): founded 2013-05-01, Standing. Monthly membership for creators is a category they named in public.
- [PayPal](https://stillupsince.com/paypal): founded 1998-12-01, Standing. It is the checkout button for people who do not want to type a card into a stranger's site.
- [Photoshop](https://stillupsince.com/photoshop): founded 1990-02-19, Standing. The file format and the verb. 'To photoshop' is the product.
- [PHP](https://stillupsince.com/php): founded 1995-06-08, Standing. WordPress, Wikipedia, Facebook's first decade, and a billion shared hosts.
- [Pinboard](https://stillupsince.com/pinboard): founded 2008-07-01, Standing. Maciej Ceglowski runs it like a utility: paid, small, sarcastic, still there.
- [Pinterest](https://stillupsince.com/pinterest): founded 2010-03-01, Standing. It is a search engine for wanting things, especially for people who do not want Twitter energy.
- [PostgreSQL](https://stillupsince.com/postgresql): founded 1996-07-08, Standing. It is the database you graduate to, and then never leave.
- [Python](https://stillupsince.com/python): founded 1991-02-20, Standing. It became the second language of every field: science, ops, ML, teaching, glue.
- [Ruby on Rails](https://stillupsince.com/rails): founded 2004-12-13, Standing. It taught a decade of startups that a web app is a folder with opinions.
- [old.reddit](https://stillupsince.com/reddit-old): founded 2005-06-23, Hollow. A URL that pins the 2014 interface. Power users treat it as the actual product.
- [Reddit](https://stillupsince.com/reddit): founded 2005-06-23, Wavering. It is the comment section of the internet, and Google still sends people there for the human thread.
- [Redis](https://stillupsince.com/redis): founded 2009-04-10, Standing. If you need a cache, a queue, or a counter, you reach for it without a meeting.
- [RSS](https://stillupsince.com/rss): founded 1999-03-15, Standing. Podcasts are RSS with a file attached. That industry alone would keep the spec alive.
- [Salesforce](https://stillupsince.com/salesforce): founded 1999-03-08, Standing. CRM is where the money numbers live. Replacing it is a two-year program, not a weekend.
- [Shopify](https://stillupsince.com/shopify): founded 2006-06-01, Standing. It is the default way a merchant gets a store without becoming a developer.
- [Signal](https://stillupsince.com/signal): founded 2014-07-29, Standing. The protocol is the gold standard. WhatsApp and others borrowed it. That is a weird kind of win.
- [Skype](https://stillupsince.com/skype): founded 2003-08-01, Hollow. The username graph of the 2000s still has grandparents on it.
- [Slack](https://stillupsince.com/slack): founded 2013-08-14, Standing. It turned IRC-for-work into a company default and made search across chat a reason to stay.
- [Spotify](https://stillupsince.com/spotify): founded 2006-04-23, Standing. It won the 'all the music in a rectangle' war against piracy and then against the stores.
- [SQLite](https://stillupsince.com/sqlite): founded 2000-08-17, Standing. It is in every phone, every browser, every airplane, and most 'we don't need a database' apps.
- [Stack Overflow](https://stillupsince.com/stackoverflow): founded 2008-09-15, Wavering. A decade of ranked answers is still the corpus every model trains on and every search result cites.
- [Stripe](https://stillupsince.com/stripe): founded 2010-09-29, Standing. Seven lines of code was not a slogan. It was a distribution strategy.
- [Sublime Text](https://stillupsince.com/sublime-text): founded 2008-01-18, Standing. Speed and multiple cursors. It taught VS Code what to steal.
- [Substack](https://stillupsince.com/substack): founded 2017-07-01, Standing. It made 'email plus a paywall plus a profile' a one-click job.
- [Telegram](https://stillupsince.com/telegram): founded 2013-08-14, Standing. Channels, bots, and huge groups made it infrastructure for places WhatsApp is a family chat.
- [TextMate](https://stillupsince.com/textmate): founded 2004-10-01, Hollow. Bundles and the 'editor for Mac OS X' myth. Sublime and VS Code are the children.
- [Things](https://stillupsince.com/things): founded 2008-01-01, Standing. Cultured Code ships slowly and the app looks like it. That is a feature.
- [tmux](https://stillupsince.com/tmux): founded 2007-11-20, Standing. Terminal multiplexers are infrastructure for people who live on SSH.
- [Transmit](https://stillupsince.com/transmit): founded 1998-01-01, Standing. Panic makes Mac software like objects. Transmit is the FTP client as a piece of furniture.
- [Trello](https://stillupsince.com/trello): founded 2011-09-13, Wavering. A board you can see across the room. The metaphor is the product.
- [Tumblr](https://stillupsince.com/tumblr): founded 2007-02-01, Wavering. Fandom, collage, and a posting style that did not survive other feeds intact.
- [Twitter / X](https://stillupsince.com/twitter): founded 2006-03-21, Wavering. It is still where news breaks and where a class of people performs being informed.
- [Vercel](https://stillupsince.com/vercel): founded 2015-11-16, Standing. Next.js plus git push is a default for a generation of front-end apps.
- [Vim](https://stillupsince.com/vim): founded 1991-11-02, Standing. Muscle memory is a moat. hjkl is a tattoo.
- [VLC](https://stillupsince.com/vlc): founded 2001-02-01, Standing. It plays the file. The cone is the brand. No account, no store, no lecture.
- [Visual Studio Code](https://stillupsince.com/vscode): founded 2015-04-29, Standing. Free, good enough, and the extension marketplace is a gravity well.
- [WhatsApp](https://stillupsince.com/whatsapp): founded 2009-02-24, Standing. It is the SMS of half the planet. Network effects at that scale do not care about your new app.
- [Wikipedia](https://stillupsince.com/wikipedia): founded 2001-01-15, Standing. It is the default answer, and search engines need that default more than Wikipedia needs them.
- [Winamp](https://stillupsince.com/winamp): founded 1997-04-21, Hollow. It really does whip the llama's ass, as a memory. Revivals keep trying to monetize the memory.
- [WordPress](https://stillupsince.com/wordpress): founded 2003-05-27, Standing. It still runs a huge fraction of the public web, including the sites of people who mock it.
- [Yahoo](https://stillupsince.com/yahoo): founded 1994-03-02, Hollow. A media and mail brand that still has logins from the 90s.
- [YouTube](https://stillupsince.com/youtube): founded 2005-02-14, Standing. It is cable for the internet, plus the search box for 'how do I'.
- [Zoom](https://stillupsince.com/zoom): founded 2011-04-21, Standing. It just worked when the others did not. 2020 turned that into a verb.

## Closed

- [AOL Instant Messenger](https://stillupsince.com/aim): founded 1997-05-01, Closed. The buddy list, the away message, the profile HTML. American adolescence as a protocol.
- [AltaVista](https://stillupsince.com/altavista): founded 1995-12-15, Closed. The search engine that felt like magic in 1996. Faster and bigger than the directory.
- [Delicious](https://stillupsince.com/delicious): founded 2003-09-01, Closed. Social bookmarks. Tags. The first time a lot of the web learned folksonomy.
- [Adobe Flash](https://stillupsince.com/flash): founded 1996-01-01, Closed. The web's animation, games, and video layer for a decade. Newgrounds and YouTube's first player.
- [Friendster](https://stillupsince.com/friendster): founded 2002-03-01, Closed. The first social graph a lot of people joined. Slow pages. Myspace was faster. Facebook was cleaner.
- [GeoCities](https://stillupsince.com/geocities): founded 1994-11-01, Closed. Neighborhoods of amateur HTML. The first time a lot of people had a URL.
- [Google Hangouts](https://stillupsince.com/google-hangouts): founded 2013-05-15, Closed. The one Google chat that people actually liked, briefly, between Talk and Meet/Chat.
- [Inbox by Gmail](https://stillupsince.com/google-inbox): founded 2014-10-22, Closed. Bundles, snooze, and a calm inbox. It was Gmail with taste.
- [Google+](https://stillupsince.com/google-plus): founded 2011-06-28, Closed. Circles were a good idea. Forcing every Google product to grow a Plus button was not.
- [Google Reader](https://stillupsince.com/google-reader): founded 2005-10-07, Closed. It was the best RSS reader and the social graph of sharing feeds.
- [Google Stadia](https://stillupsince.com/google-stadia): founded 2019-11-19, Closed. Cloud gaming from Google, with a cute controller, without the games.
- [Google Wave](https://stillupsince.com/google-wave): founded 2009-05-27, Closed. A demo that looked like the future of email. Too many cursors. Not enough job-to-be-done.
- [Internet Explorer](https://stillupsince.com/internet-explorer): founded 1995-08-16, Closed. It won the First Browser War by being the Windows default. That is a long clock.
- [Mint](https://stillupsince.com/mint): founded 2007-09-01, Closed. Free budgeting by selling your attention to banks. It worked until Intuit had Credit Karma.
- [Napster](https://stillupsince.com/napster): founded 1999-06-01, Closed. Peer-to-peer music as a default. It lasted long enough to change the industry and not long enough to become it.
- [Netscape](https://stillupsince.com/netscape): founded 1994-10-13, Closed. It made the web a consumer product. Mozilla is the ghost that lived.
- [Path](https://stillupsince.com/path): founded 2010-11-01, Closed. A beautiful private social network for 50 friends. Taste without a graph.
- [Rdio](https://stillupsince.com/rdio): founded 2010-08-03, Closed. The best music social network of its moment. Heavy design, heavy taste, light catalog muscle.
- [Vine](https://stillupsince.com/vine): founded 2012-06-01, Closed. Six seconds. A format that minted a generation of comedians.
- [Windows Phone](https://stillupsince.com/windows-phone): founded 2010-10-21, Closed. Live tiles. A design language people still steal. No apps.

## Optional

- [Hunts](https://stillupsince.com/hunted): Product Hunt rows; clock starts at the hunt
- [Numbers](https://stillupsince.com/stats): counts, not a dashboard login
- [About](https://stillupsince.com/build-this-site): how the wall is made
- [Sitemap](https://stillupsince.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable URL
- [OpenAPI](https://stillupsince.com/openapi.json): machine description of public routes