Epitaph
Shutdown kit for indie SaaS: data export, sunset page, farewell emails, sale/handoff
Claude Code or ChatGPT can generate the kit's export scripts, sunset page, and emails in one session.
Shutdown kit for indie SaaS: data export, sunset page, farewell emails, sale/handoff
Customers can lose access to their data with little warning when a product closes badly. Founders usually handle the shutdown alone, with limited time and no playbook.
Epitaph gives indie SaaS founders tools to export data, announce a sunset, email customers, and hand off or sell the product.
- 1Export customer data in standard, usable formats.
- 2Publish a sunset page and send farewell emails to customers.
- 3List the product for sale or hand it to a new owner.
Why it failed
Check 2 · AI can do itThe kit's core pieces (data export scripts, a sunset page, farewell email copy) are things a technical indie SaaS founder can get from Claude Code or ChatGPT in one session. The idea has no aggregate data, trust layer, network effect, or money flow, and the whyNotAgent field is empty. Only the sale/handoff piece could survive, and it would need a buyer marketplace, which the pitch doesn't describe.
What already exists
1 products checked- 01
Interview ten shut-down founders to confirm they paid for help, not templates.
- 02
Build the sale or handoff piece as a marketplace with escrowed payments.
- 03
Add a network effect: a directory of shutdowns that buyers can search.
- Mealime backlash
Mealime backlash