Every year, 90% of startups fail. Most of their founders eventually sit down and write honest, painful accounts of exactly what went wrong — these are called postmortems. They exist in the thousands, scattered across Medium posts, Reddit threads, Indie Hackers discussions, and personal blogs. The lessons are real, specific, and hard-won. But nobody can find them. There is no central home for these documents. No structure that lets you filter by industry, stage, team size, or failure reason. And crucially, no system that aggregates individual stories into collective patterns — so the same mistakes get made, over and over, by founders who had no way of knowing someone else already died on that exact hill. The core problem is not that the knowledge doesn't exist. It's that nobody has built the infrastructure to surface it. Google can find individual blog posts, but it cannot cross-reference 500 postmortems and tell you that B2C food delivery startups at the Seed stage most commonly die from retention failure, not acquisition. That kind of insight requires a structured, tagged, searchable database — and right now, that database does not exist. Estimated public postmortems available today: 10,000+. Currently searchable in any structured way: 0.
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