[codingdave]

This is fine for what it is... but at its core, it is a categorized list of github repositories, and the category happens to be failed startups.

I would drop the whole "graveyard" theme, and expand the categorization concept... then this could be less of a novelty, and more of a new wrapper around github for discovery of relevant codebases to whatever your current project may be.

[DougMerritt]

I disagree, I think that this is precisely targeted at encouraging failed startups to open source their software for others, which has been rare in the past.

People can then tell their (former) CEO, "See this site, everyone is using the graveyard".

Encouraging that behavior is utterly different than just indexing the few that did so in the past.

I see no particular point whatsoever in insisting that it would be better as a vague indistinct generic gitub wrapper -- although if you have an idea for improving search of such, go for it.