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 · 143 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 →

African Jober

Here lies African Jober. A Swiss private banker taught himself to code and built a portal to match skilled Africans with employers worldwide. It filed dormant accounts, then nothing at all. The job board that promised work never found any of its own.

Unknown – October 2018HR & Talent🇬🇭 Ghana

Tingo

Here lies Tingo. It claimed millions of Nigerian farmers and $461.7m sitting in the bank, reverse-merged onto Nasdaq and seated a former president on its board. The real balance was under fifty dollars. Everything about it grew except the crops.

2001 – December 2024Agri Tech🇳🇬 Nigeria

GreenPath Food

Here lies GreenPath Food. It cold-chained organic fruit and herbs from hundreds of Ethiopian smallholders to buyers in Europe and the Gulf, on $4.5m from Novastar and development finance. Nobody said why it stopped. The creditors' liquidation was the last harvest left to divide.

2015 – December 2023Agri Tech🇪🇹 Ethiopia

Ogelle

Here lies Ogelle. It gave African creators a home to publish and earn in their own languages, a purpose-built answer to YouTube. But viewers who wouldn't pay, a rival that delisted cross-posters, and a crash during its biggest launch cost the founder some eighteen million dollars.

2019 – April 2024Creator Economy🇳🇬 Nigeria

KOKO Networks

Here lies KOKO Networks. It built smart bioethanol stations to make clean cooking affordable across Kenya. The stoves had fuel, but the carbon-credit engine lost government authorisation. Seven hundred jobs later, the network went offline.

2013 – January 2026Energy & Utilities🇰🇪 Kenya

Wabona

Here lies Wabona. A pan-African video-on-demand service, it carried African film and TV, moving from pay-per-view to subscriptions. The founders couldn't raise the next round in a market shifting faster than they could, and closed within days. Refunds issued; no second season.

2012 – August 2015Media & Entertainment🇿🇦 South Africa

TradeHub

Here lies TradeHub. It set out to digitise procurement for Egypt's manufacturers, then pivoted to sales-automation software when the marketplace stalled. Neither found buyers with conviction. Eighteen months in, it returned what capital remained and closed the order book.

2023 – September 2025E-commerce & Retail🇪🇬 Egypt

Zarttech

Here lies Zarttech. It connected African tech talent with global companies and promised to close Europe's hiring gap. Then its own payroll developed a critical outage. The apology shipped, but the missing salaries never made production.

2020 – March 2026HR & Talent🇳🇬 Nigeria

Afristay

Here lies Afristay. For nearly two decades it listed 30,000 African stays, guest houses, villas and B&Bs, for travellers. Then the pandemic emptied the calendar, and the bookings never came back. It checked out in 2025 with no vacancy left to fill.

2006 – June 2025Real Estate & Property🇿🇦 South Africa

Notify Logistics

Here lies Notify Logistics. It carved rented warehouse floors into hundreds of shelves and leased them to small sellers with nowhere to store their stock. Shelf rents of a few thousand shillings never covered 800,000 shillings a month in floor costs, and it ran out of room in August 2022.

2018 – September 2022Logistics & Supply Chain🇰🇪 Kenya

Capiter

Here lies Capiter. It connected Egypt's retailers and wholesalers to digitise the wholesale trade. Aggressive hiring emptied the shelves of cash, and when the board removed its founders amid fraud claims, no merger could restock it. The marketplace was liquidated.

2020 – August 2023E-commerce & Retail🇪🇬 Egypt

Brimore

Here lies Brimore. It linked Egyptian manufacturers to an army of freelance sales agents reaching all 27 governorates. Fierce competition and a valuation cut slowed the network, and by 2024 its operations sat paused while the remaining founders weighed a return.

2017 – February 2023E-commerce & Retail🇪🇬 Egypt

DealDey

Here lies DealDey. It brought Nigerians daily discounts on goods, services, and event tickets, once among the country's largest online sellers. After the acquisition it went quiet on merchants and customers alike, and the deals finally ran out. The last offer went unclaimed.

2011 – January 2019E-commerce & Retail🇳🇬 Nigeria

HerRyde

Here lies HerRyde. It gave Nigerian women a ride-hailing service with women behind every wheel, answering real fears about safety, and it moved over two thousand of them. Bootstrapped to the end, it could not raise the fare to scale, and parked itself in hibernation.

2022 – May 2024Travel & Mobility🇳🇬 Nigeria

Climate Edge

Here lies Climate Edge. It carried soil data, planting calendars and market prices to 150,000 smallholder farmers over SMS and voice, no smartphone required. Around 2023 the updates simply stopped and the signal went quiet. The domain now belongs to someone else.

2016 – January 2023🇰🇪 Kenya

Momint

Here lies Momint. South Africa's first NFT marketplace pivoted to tokenising solar projects once the hype faded. It served tens of thousands, but growth stalled past the early adopters and the crypto winter froze the funding. The last token went unminted.

2021 – June 2025Crypto & Web3🇿🇦 South Africa

FanBants

Here lies FanBants. It turned African football and pop culture into fantasy leagues and prediction markets. Users were asked to withdraw their balances, but the company never predicted its own final score. The shutdown reason remains off the leaderboard.

2021 – December 2025Betting & Prediction Markets🇳🇬 Nigeria

Fibre Lifestyle

Here lies Fibre Lifestyle. It leased homes across Lagos and re-let them to young professionals, promising simple city living. When too many properties underperformed, it terminated leases and pulled back to smaller units, insisting all the while it wasn't leaving. The lease, in the end, was not renewed.

2016 – August 2020Real Estate & Property🇳🇬 Nigeria

Gro Intelligence

Here lies Gro Intelligence. It gathered the world's agricultural data to help governments and giants like Unilever see climate risk coming, and sat on a hundred-million-dollar war chest. Its bespoke, consulting-style product never became something many could buy, and the forecasts could not predict its own collapse.

2012 – May 2024AI & Analytics🇰🇪 Kenya

Quabbly

Here lies Quabbly. It let African teams build internal tools and automate their databases without writing code. But Excel stayed good enough for most, custom software felt too dear to switch to, and three years on the revenue never cleared a nice-to-have. The domain is now for sale.

2021 – March 2024Developer Tools & Cloud🇳🇬 Nigeria

Saida

Here lies Saida. It gave Kenyans a mobile account that split money into pockets and offered short-term loans underwritten by phone-activity data. In January 2022 it closed the account for good, no explanation given and its site switched off. A co-founder moved on to backing other builders.

2015 – January 2022Fintech🇰🇪 Kenya

TiketMobile

Here lies TiketMobile. It let Nigerians find and buy interstate bus tickets by phone, launched on a small Tony Elumelu grant. The grant ran short, rivals took the routes, and an airport e-hailing pivot couldn't revive it. It booked a one-way ticket.

2013 – January 2016Travel & Mobility🇳🇬 Nigeria

Tress

Here lies Tress. It helped Black women find hairstyles, stylists and products, and grew a warm community across Ghana and beyond. Press and a brand partnership arrived, but funding and fit did not follow. In May 2018 the app went offline and its founders quietly moved on.

2014 – September 2019Communication & Social🇬🇭 Ghana

WeFarm Shop

Here lies WeFarm Shop. Bolted onto WeFarm's farmer knowledge network, it let smallholders buy agricultural supplies online. About a year in, difficult market conditions made the shop hard to scale, and its owner pulled it. The advice-sharing platform it grew from stayed open.

2014 – July 2022E-commerce & Retail🇰🇪 Kenya,🇹🇿 Tanzania,🇺🇬 Uganda
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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.

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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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