Built for Africa. Now Dead.

A minute of silence to the African software products that are no longer operating. Learn what they built, what led to their closure, and which alternatives continue to serve their users today.

African Software Shutdowns · 144 products

The Graveyard is an editorial archive. Each fate describes what happened to a product as an independent service, while the record separates documented facts from community opinion. How the Graveyard works →

Acctual

Stablecoin-ready invoicing and bill pay for crypto-native businesses, folded into Altitude in 2026.

2023 – 30 September 2026Crypto & Web3 Uganda, Ghana, Kenya+5

YoLa Fresh

Here lies YoLa Fresh. It bought produce straight from Moroccan smallholders and had it in more than a thousand grocers by morning. It raised $9m and handed control to Al Mada Ventures, but the Series A never came. Fresh every morning, until the money ran out.

2023 – October 2026Agri Tech Morocco

Aufort

Here lies Aufort. An Estonian gold dealer turned bullion into a digital account, then came to Nairobi to sell Kenyans gold by the gram over M-Pesa. Thirty months later it cited only a combination of circumstances. The gold was meant to outlast the currency. The company did not.

2014 – 1 October 2026Fintech Kenya

Glover

Here lies Glover. Nigeria's gift card and airtime marketplace scaled to a million users across Nigeria and Ghana and built a 130-person team around them. Thin margins in digital assets demand volume that the runway ran out before they could reach.

2021 – 31 July 2026Fintech Nigeria

GoLemon

Here lies GoLemon. Four Paystack alumni took the aisle Jumia Food and Bolt Food had just walked out of, sourced from farms, built the warehouses and the code, and moved ₦2bn of groceries at a profit on every basket. There were never enough baskets. Profitable per order, insolvent per company.

March 2024 – 29 July 2026E-commerce & Retail Nigeria

NoOnes

Here lies NoOnes. Built from Paxful's ashes as a peer-to-peer 'distributed nation' for the Global South, it signed up 2.5 million traders and asked what power the old system had once everyone went P2P. Brussels answered on 23 July 2026. For the first time, no one could trade there.

2023 – 21 August 2026Crypto & Web3 Kenya, Cameroon, Ghana+2

Codefactory

Here lies Code Factory. It taught Accra's under-17s Scratch, Python and robotics under the wing of a large Ghanaian conglomerate. Nobody wrote a closing notice. The school that taught children to build for the web let its own domain expire.

Unknown – September 2022EdTech Ghana

Invest XD

Here lies InvestXD. Three MEST graduates built a place to buy Ghanaian unit trusts and treasury bills without queueing at a bank. It pitched at DEMO Africa and did not place. The only investment product it ever finally listed was its own domain, for sale.

2017 – December 2019Fintech Ghana

KebreaGhana

Here lies Kebrea. Two founders saved GHS 150 a month each to register it, then sold electronics on hire purchase and booked GHS 500,000 in sales. The press stopped writing in January 2018. The shop that let Ghanaians pay in instalments ran out of time to collect.

2015 – August 2019E-commerce & Retail Ghana

Vielly

Here lies Vielly. It planned shared rides along Accra's busiest road at a third of Uber's price, picking commuters up at bus stops. In December 2020 it was still hoping to launch the following month. The ride never came.

Unknown – December 2020Travel & Mobility Ghana

Shopnaw

Here lies Shopnaw. It put groceries, market goods, pharmacy items and restaurant meals in one Ghanaian marketplace and sent personal shoppers to the door. Its four apps stopped updating in August 2021 and were pulled from the store. Nobody came to collect the last order.

2019 – August 2021E-commerce & Retail Ghana

Truckr

Here lies Truckr. It matched shippers with vetted truck operators, won $100,000 from MEST and a pitch prize in 2019, and claimed two hundred active trucks. Its own investor quietly dropped it from the portfolio page while its cohort-mates stayed. The last load was never collected.

2018 – October 2019Logistics & Supply Chain Ghana

Eiko Health

Here lies Eiko Health. A banker came home after his father could not get emergency care and built an app to book doctors on demand. Eighteen months later the registrar dissolved it for filing nothing at all. No one answered its own emergency.

2017 – October 2018Health Tech Ghana

Rabarides

Here lies Raba Rides. It let Accra drivers pick up commuters heading the same way, priced for the people Uber had already priced out. One archived page from January 2023 is the whole record. The site still answers, and still refuses to take anyone.

Unknown – January 2023Travel & Mobility Ghana

Hohm Energy

Here lies Hohm Energy. It matched South African homeowners with solar installers and lenders, and raised the largest seed round the country had ever seen. Then the load-shedding stopped. Seven months after the record raise, the lights came back on and Hohm went out.

2021 – September 2024Energy & Utilities South Africa

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What belongs here

Products that shut down, were deliberately sunset, were absorbed into another company or brand, or are confirmed dormant.

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The Liners Graveyard is a documented archive of African software products that no longer operate as independent products. Each complete record explains when the product operated, how it ended, what contributed to the outcome, and which alternatives remain active.

A product may be included when it has shut down, been discontinued by its owner, been absorbed into another company or brand, or remained dormant long enough that it no longer appears to operate. We distinguish those outcomes on each record rather than calling every case a failure.

We review official company announcements, founder statements, credible reporting, archived pages, and other public evidence. Available citations are listed in the Sources section of the product record, and records can be corrected as better evidence emerges.

Shut down means the product's operations ended. Sunset means its owner deliberately discontinued it. Absorbed means it stopped operating independently after a rebrand, merger, or acquisition. Dormant means there are strong signs that the product is inactive, but no definitive closure announcement.

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