Sixteen old listings whose later stories stop at an open question.

Each company below had a listing in the old Stompstart directory between 2014 and 2019, and each has a later story that is on the record but unfinished. Some launched, raised money or won a first customer and then went quiet; two ended up in court; others reappear under a new name, or their web addresses now lead somewhere else. Each paragraph sets out what the sources show, in order, and then names the question they leave open. A web address that no longer loads is not an ending, and no cause is offered where the sources give none.

Strong starts, then quiet

Chadder asked "Have you ever sent a message you regretted?" in a listing filed under New York and captured in August 2019. Its private messaging app, for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Amazon and Blackberry, let users take a message back after sending it. The Register reported on 5 May 2014 that John McAfee had backed Chadder, marketed by his company Future Tense Central and built by Etransfr, a company formed by Rochester Institute of Technology programmers. In January 2015 Etransfr announced hardware-backed key protection for Chadder on Android, and a June 2015 release quoted McAfee: "Chadder is the only app I personally trust for messaging." No later word was found, and chadder.im now forwards to an unrelated emoji blog. What became of the apps and of Etransfr is unknown.

Bar Roulette "combines Yelp and Uber to take you to a highly rated bar", said a San Francisco listing captured in February 2016. The web app booked an UberX to an open, well-rated bar and named it only on arrival; Tyler Swartz built it as a side project to try Uber's new ride request API. In a guest post on Uber's blog in May 2016, Swartz wrote that he had launched an iOS version that April, and TechCrunch covered the app, free with a $2.99 in-app purchase. His repository for its landing page was last updated in March 2018. The Heroku address now returns not found, barroulette.cool promotes an unrelated gambling site, and no App Store listing was found. When it was last offered is not recorded.

CarLister.co called itself "The first social platform for buying and selling cars" in a public beta listing filed under Bonita Springs, Florida, and captured in March 2015; it doubled as a social network for the car world. Its parent, DreamWare, Inc. of Naples, said it was officially released in January 2015. Car Lister announced a $6.5 million angel round that June, Auto Dealer Today reported; in February 2016 it said 327 dealerships in more than 35 states were on its platform. Its last release found, on 2 April 2016, announced a Black Book partnership. On 29 September 2026 OpenCorporates, summarising Florida's register, listed a DreamWare, Inc. of Naples as inactive, with no public date. What happened after spring 2016 is not recorded; carlister.co now runs an unrelated car news blog.

Trace promised "Your life. Live" in a private beta listing created from Venice, California, in December 2014 and captured in March 2015. Its Tracer was "a visually intelligent camera" that would operate tracking devices by itself and stream the footage live, so people could be "in" their greatest moments. On 15 July 2015 TRACE Live Networks announced a $7 million Series B, taking its funding to $10 million, with the TRACEr1 camera and FOLLOWr1 gimbal targeted for fall 2015. Six days later it announced an investment in Antix, a London video auto-editing startup, with an option to buy it. No later news was found. Whether the TRACEr1 shipped, and whether the Antix option was used, is unknown; trace.com now hosts an unrelated personal site.

Sayist offered "Video Classifieds - Changing The Way You See Classifieds" in a private beta listing created from Seattle in August 2014 and captured in March 2015. Posts for a job, a car, an apartment, a pet or an old guitar could carry video and hashtags and be shared socially. GeekWire reported its public launch on 5 August 2015, naming founders Bryan Brzeg and Michele Liang. The next day GeekWire updated the story: the site had been taken down after readers found content from other sites, including Craigslist, for what Brzeg called a full-scale review of compliance issues and unauthorized use of content. KOMO News reported the removal too, quoting Brzeg that the site would relaunch once the issues were fixed. No relaunch has been found, and sayist.com refuses connections.

CivilHub carried the line "People Have the Power" in a public beta listing created from Warsaw in October 2014 and captured in March 2015. It was a social network for suggesting and carrying out changes where people live, gathering them around local communities. In July 2015 Gdańsk became its first official city user, for consultation on the city's Gdańsk 2030 Plus strategy. A case study on the EU's Interoperable Europe portal, dated 17 November 2016, reported the Gdańsk community reached 278 users and the city withdrew, an official in the mayor's office saying the city needed to be where residents were, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. CivilHub's open-source code was last updated in March 2016. Whether any other city took it up is not recorded, and civilhub.org no longer loads.

Ruzzit was "A new tool to find the most shared content on the web!" in an alpha listing filed under Montréal and captured in July 2019. Its makers had found that "generally speaking the best content is also shared the most". It launched on Product Hunt in April 2015. On 28 March 2017 co-founder Anselme Trochu wrote that version 1.0 was live on desktop, iOS and Android after about 18 months of work, and in April a Hacker News post announced "We just released our app". An archived copy shows ruzzit.com still serving the Ruzzit web app in August 2018. Nothing later was found, so whether and when Ruzzit stopped is not on the record; when checked on 28 September 2026, ruzzit.com forwarded to an unrelated gaming page.

DrumUp was "a smart, automated virtual social media assistant" in a Bengaluru listing seen on directory pages from August 2015 and captured in full in August 2019. It found content worth sharing on Facebook and Twitter pages and scheduled the posts. MediaNama reported its launch by the founders of Godot Media in April 2015; DrumUp said over 1,300 companies and individuals were already using it. Wikipedia lists its latest app releases in May and June 2020, and the newest review on Capterra is dated July 2023. Co-founder Sophia Solanki later founded Narrato, bought by Typeface in 2024; neither source gives DrumUp's status. drumup.io now refuses connections and its Google Play and App Store pages return not found, but with no closing notice, whether and when DrumUp stopped is unknown.

Disputes on the record

Ripple offered to "Spread your story across the world" in a Seattle listing captured in March 2016. A post went first to several people nearby, who chose whether to pass it on, and a map showed how far it travelled. GeekWire profiled the bootstrapped app in January 2015, naming Paul Stavropoulos and Gal Oshri, program managers at Microsoft, as founders. On 2 October 2015 Ripple Labs, the payments company, sued its maker, Kefi Labs, over the name. A consent final order of 9 December 2015, in which the defendants denied infringing, barred them from the Ripple name after 23 December and required getripple.io to pass to Ripple Labs. Whether the app carried on under another name is not recorded; getripple.io returns not found.

CultureSphere pitched "The Next Frontier in Enterprise Advertising, Branding, and Recruiting!" in a Palo Alto listing captured in February 2016. It aimed to be "the world's first PUBLIC enterprise social network", built from stories employees made privately and their company curated for the public. VentureBeat reported its iPhone launch in July 2015, when founder Danny Gordon said ten companies had used it in private beta. On 13 January 2017 TechCrunch reported that CultureSphere had sued HCL, alleging that HCL used acquisition talks, which by the complaint's account reached about $20 million before ending in September 2016, to obtain confidential information for a competing product. HCL called the allegations "totally baseless". No record was found of how the case ended or what became of CultureSphere; its domain no longer resolves.

Later names and other owners

CannaSOS was "a social platform for medical marijuana experts and enthusiasts" in a Toronto listing captured in August 2019. Members asked questions, shared news and searched strains for effects and medical uses; the listing claimed more than 35,000 users. In December 2017 it said it had sold 10 million PerksCoin tokens in a first-stage sale, and in December 2018 CannaSOS Corp launched PTPWallet, a cryptocurrency wallet. In February 2019 Core State Holdings of Toronto, saying it owned both, opened a Series A round. A Wyoming company of that name, giving the same website, filed a crowdfunding offering with the SEC that April and last amended it on 24 March 2021, in a filing that does not name CannaSOS. What became of the network is unknown; cannasos.com no longer resolves.

messageLOUD offered to "Listen to your Email & Texts" in a public beta listing filed under New York and captured in February 2016. The patent-pending service read texts, WhatsApp messages and email aloud to drivers. It announced its Android app in December 2015, at $1.99 a month after a 30-day trial, naming Garin Toren as founder and chief executive. Toren went on to lead ping, a voice and telematics platform for commercial and gig drivers whose app was messageLOUD, according to an undated Coverager item reporting a $5 million seed round. In October 2020 Toren described ping, available on Android, iPhone and Alexa. pingloud.com now forwards to Toren's LinkedIn profile and messageloud.com carries unrelated gambling content. Whether ping still operates is unknown.

Lozi was "a platform and social community related to food and restaurants" in a Ho Chi Minh City listing captured in July 2019, where users reviewed dishes and shared culinary collections. Lozi became a social C2C commerce platform in 2015 and set up Loship, a delivery service, in 2017, KrASIA reported in February 2021, when Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn's MetaPlanet led a Series C for Loship. In December 2022 restaurant partners told Znews that Loship had delayed payouts for over a month, and the company cited a payment system error; in February 2023 its chief executive told VietnamBiz it had halved its staff in stages. No later report was found. lozi.vn shows a default WordPress page and loship.vn a generic food blog; whether Loship still runs is unknown.

Sonation said its apps made practice "easier and more fun" by "adding intelligent, real-time orchestra" in a Boston public beta listing from March 2014. The Harvard Innovation Lab spinout announced the Cadenza iPhone app in June 2015. In January 2016 the Boston Globe said Cadenza, built on Indiana University researcher Christopher Raphael's software, had about 30,000 users by the company's count. MetaMusic, whose team traces its research to UMass Amherst and Indiana University, now publishes a Cadenza app without mentioning Sonation. A violinist.com member who said he helped promote the app wrote in September 2021 that Sonation later shut down, ending its licence to the inventor's code, and that the app now comes from MetaMusic. No first-party or official record confirms it, so Sonation's fate stays open.

Lease Advisors offered "payouts for Cellular Site and Billboard Leases" in a Marina del Rey listing from September 2014. It said it had bought out leases since 2008 and partnered with tower company InSite Wireless Group. In 2012 GTCR committed up to $150 million to Telecom Lease Advisors of Marina del Rey under Jarred Saba, whom RCR Wireless quoted as Lease Advisors' chief executive on its 2014 InSite joint venture. A 2014 blog post called Lease Advisors a registered trademark of Telecom Lease Advisors Management, LLC. American Tower agreed to buy InSite in November 2020, without mentioning Lease Advisors. Its site called it American Tower's wholly owned subsidiary by September 2021 and announced the acquisition by January 2022. When the deal happened, and whether it came with InSite, is unknown.

STICKET.IN offered a "Social Tickets Marketplace. Sell, Buy, Swap!" in a listing filed under Santa Clara, California, and captured in July 2019. Fans traded event tickets, and it claimed more than 30,000 registered users by August 2015. In July 2015 SAPO Tek reported that the Portuguese platform's chief executive, Afonso Barbosa, was moving to the United States, and Portugal Startups reported a 100,000 euro investment from Caixa Capital at Startup Braga's demo day. In January 2016 Visão called it SeatWish, formerly Sticketin; that October Barbosa announced NEXT360, a platform to monetize 360-degree and virtual reality live streams. Today seatwish.com shows only a coming-soon page for a Portuguese ticket marketplace, pointing to the STicketIn Facebook group. What SeatWish did in between, and who is behind the new page, is not recorded.