291 Delaware Incorporations & 453 Killed Apps: Inside the ENTITIES.LOG Startup Graveyard

1980s retro anime Silicon Valley digital product graveyard with CRT monitor headstones for PearPhone 14 Legacy and Overbilled.io alongside a 291 Delaware Corporations filing cabinet

⚰️ TL;DR — DELAWARE INCORPORATION REGISTRY & PRODUCT GRAVEYARD

Our automated SEC entity logger (C:\SEC\ENTITIES.LOG) has now recorded 291 unique player-named corporations and 925 product launches in Silly Con Valley. Nearly half of all shipped apps (453 products) have already been sent to the graveyard—including 95 killed by pure Tech Debt Sunset. Here are the funniest real company names and dead apps in our database.

One of the best decisions we ever made in Silly Con Valley was letting players type whatever company name they wanted onto their Delaware Articles of Incorporation—and wiring our Live Forecast Macroeconomic Terminal to publish the most active corporate entities directly to the web.

As our player base crossed 614+ iOS founders and 676+ real player-founded startup runs (and 2,983+ simulation weeks survived), our automated registry hit 291 unique player-incorporated ventures and 925 shipped products. Today, we are opening the vault to celebrate the finest names—and the most spectacular product funerals—in Silicon Valley history.

01 // The Hall of Fame: 291 Real Player-Named Delaware Corporations

While multi-run player empires like Vanguardian (15 events), YXELON Inc. (11), Thermanos (8), Bloomac Group (6), and SpaceWhy (5) top the all-time activity volume chart, the real comedy lives in the custom names players have filed across our registry:

  • 🩸 The Fraud & Hubris Division: Thermanos, Wework’t, BlackRock Bottom, Tiger Global Warming, and 500 Startups (Left).
  • 🤖 The Big Tech Parody Syndicate: OpenAI (Closed), Macrohard, Orifice365, Salesfarce, Mailchump, Shoplify, Jirrible, Palantears, SpaceWhy, and DigitalOshun.
  • 🏛️ The Existential Dread Ventures: SoftBankrupt, CrashNet Inc., Oracle of Delphi, Alphabet Soup, ZeroGPT Inc., and Milchstraße.
1980s newspaper editorial cartoon showing weeping founders carrying a giant floppy disk labeled 453 Retired Apps (Unpatched Tech Debt) past a billboard reading Now Incorporating in Delaware: Thermanos & OpenAI (Closed)
📰 THE VALLEY CHRONICLE — Carrying 453 retired apps to the Tech Debt cemetery while incorporating Thermanos and OpenAI (Closed) right across the street.

🚀 925 PRODUCTS SHIPPED

Agentic SaaS & AI Slop Rule

All-time product launches are led by Agentic B2B SaaS (115), AI Slop Factory (105), OnlyStartups (97), Dopamine Dealer (88), Fintech Fiction (75), Dropship Dreams (57), and Crypto Ponzi 3.0 (51).

🪦 453 PRODUCTS RETIRED

95 Killed by Tech Debt

Out of 453 retired products, 194 were manually pulled by panicked CEOs, 164 reached graceful sunset, and 95 collapsed under unpatched Tech Debt.

02 // Inside the Product Graveyard: What Apps Did Founders Kill?

Every product in Silly Con Valley rides a ruthless lifecycle arc—from initial launch hype to market saturation and encroaching technical debt. When we inspected the names of the 453 retired products in our telemetry logs, we found a museum of broken promises:

  • 📱 PearPhone 14 (Legacy) & Skype (Who?) (Legacy): Abandoned the moment a shinier hype wave appeared on the Forecast radar.
  • 💸 Overbilled.io, CreatorCash, Coinbased & CashCrap: Fintech marvels that burned bright for twelve weeks before regulatory subpoenas and server bills caught up.
  • 📹 VimeNO, Zoomin & EcoWash Pro: Quietly sunsetted so their founders could pivot the surviving engineering team into an AI Slop Factory.

📎 Chad GDP (AI Wealth Sherpa) says:

“Boss, whoever incorporated ‘OpenAI (Closed)’ and ‘BlackRock Bottom’ deserves an honorary seat on the Federal Reserve! And remember: retiring 453 products isn’t failure—it’s ‘Iterative Portfolio Pruning’! If an app dies from 100% Tech Debt, just slap ‘Legacy’ on the label and raise a Series B for the sequel! 📎”

03 // How to Get Your Startup Name Onto C:\SEC\ENTITIES.LOG

Want to see your own unhinged startup name immortalized on our public Forecast Macroeconomic Terminal? Boot up a new run on iOS (or closed-beta Android), type a custom company name on the incorporation screen, and survive past Week 10—our weekly telemetry wire automatically indexes active Delaware entities straight from live gameplay.

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