Preserve Your Startup's Legacy Without the Ongoing Costs

Startup Archive helps founders and builders preserve their inactive or failed startups as high-fidelity, interactive snapshots. Instead of continuing to pay for hosting, domain renewals, and maintenance for a project you've shut down, you can capture a read-only version that lives on as a portfolio piece or historical record.

What It Does

The service captures up to 5 routes from your domain and saves each in 4 variants: desktop and mobile views, both in light and dark modes. The result is a clean, embeddable archive that can be displayed in an interactive viewer with device frame decoration—making it look like a professional portfolio artifact rather than a broken link or raw screenshot.

Who It's For

• Indie founders shutting down failed experiments who want to showcase their best work
• Product builders looking to document their journey and share what they learned
• Developers and designers who need a visual changelog or before/after comparison for portfolio presentations

Key Features & Capabilities

• Multi-route capture: Save up to 5 different pages per snapshot (homepage, blog, product pages, etc.)
• Cross-device & theme support: Automatically captures desktop + mobile in light + dark modes
• Interactive embedding: Drop the archive into your portfolio site with a custom viewer that supports scrolling and navigation
• Visual changelog: Archive multiple versions over time to show product evolution and iteration
• High visual fidelity: Unlike traditional web archives that may break over time, Startup Archive preserves the styling and appearance as you intended
• Credit-based pricing: Pay only when you need to archive, with packages from 1 to 50 snapshots

Use Cases

• Replace dead product links in your portfolio with living, interactive snapshots
• Document the journey of a failed startup for transparency or learning purposes
• Create before/after comparisons to highlight design iterations, conversion improvements, or pivots
• Preserve internal tools or demo versions before shutting them down

What Makes It Different

While free services like Wayback Machine and archive.ph are excellent for general web archiving, Startup Archive focuses specifically on founders preserving products for portfolio use. It prioritizes visual quality, embeddability, and presentation—treating your archive as a portfolio asset rather than just a snapshot. The interactive viewer lets visitors scroll through your archived pages as if they were still live, and the device frame decoration gives it a polished, professional look.

The first 30 users receive free credits to get started, and no credit card is required to try the service.