API Cemetery is a cinematic memorial archive for discontinued APIs and an early-warning surface for APIs already drifting toward deprecation. It combines a 3D orbital graveyard, searchable memorial records, and a "life support" monitoring layer into one developer-facing experience.
When major APIs shut down, developers usually piece the story together from scattered changelogs, old announcements, and social posts. API Cemetery is designed to become a durable reference for:
- what died
- why it died
- how much damage it caused
- which APIs are already showing warning signs
- Orbital "Active Graveyard" hero built with React Three Fiber
- Search and filter across memorial entries
- Individual memorial pages for dead APIs
- Life Support Ward for APIs at risk
- Atmospheric motion, hover intelligence, and ambient audio
- Prisma schema and seed pipeline for future data-backed expansion
- Next.js 16 App Router
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS 4
- Three.js with React Three Fiber and Drei
- Framer Motion
- Prisma
- Install dependencies
npm install- Start the development server
npm run devThe current homepage reads from local seed data:
data/seed/dead-apis.jsondata/seed/life-support.jsondata/seed/companies.json
Prisma schema and seed scripts are already included so the project can grow into a database-backed product.
npm run dev
npm run lint
npm run build
npm run seedThe project is verified with:
npm run lint
npm run build- Expand the archive with more dead APIs and richer records
- Add real submissions, moderation, and editorial workflows
- Add alerts and monitoring for at-risk APIs
- Improve SEO, social sharing, and memorial discoverability
- Move the live frontend from seed JSON to a production data backend