Adopted
Adopted 1mo ago Audit Test Project
Testing the drop endpoint
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The network for abandoned projects
AI made starting free.
Someone still has to finish.
Where abandoned projects get a second life. Drop a project you walked away from. Someone out there wants to finish it. No calls. No middlemen. Just drop, discover, adopt.
4 adopted · median time calculating
15
Projects waiting
4
Adopted
3
Rescued & shipping
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Awaiting first
adoption
How it works
From abandoned to adopted in three steps
01
Drop
Tell us about the project you walked away from. Title, story, GitHub link, tech stack. Takes two minutes. You stay credited as the original author forever.
02
Discover
Someone scrolls the feed, reads the story, sees the next steps. The signal is public: an explicit hand-off, not a quiet disappearance.
03
Adopt
One tap. Async. No gate. The new maintainer ships. Project flips from abandoned to rescued. The vision lives.
Featured rescue Sample data — demo
analytics.js
Hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any site (archived by Segment)
Status rescued
Original creator Sara Kowalski
For engineering teams
Know your bus factor. Before the maintainer quits.
60% of OSS maintainers have quit or considered quitting. 44% have burned out. The top 100 most-depended-upon packages have a median bus factor of 1. Run a free audit on your GitHub org and see which critical dependencies are at risk.
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Bus Factor Explorer
Per-package risk score for your stack
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Dormancy alerts
Email + Slack when a maintainer goes quiet
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Handoff matching
Get matched to verified successor maintainers
Why this exists
A vision should never die.
88% of GitHub repos are abandoned. 70% of writing projects die. 60% of small businesses fail in 5 years. The pattern is the same: people start things, then walk away. BreakPoint is the platform that makes the walk-away the start of a second chapter, not the end of the story.
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Projects that found a new home
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Distributed, realtime CLI for live Node apps — SSH into your running process
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Priority job queue backed by Redis, built for Node.js
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Adopted 2mo ago node-thunkify
Turn a regular Node function into one which returns a thunk — for co/koa
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Stay in the loop
The Monday morning rescue digest
A short weekly note on the projects abandoned last week and who adopted them. Plus one big take from the open source supply chain.
Ready to drop one?
You walked away from something. Someone out there wants to finish it. Two minutes to drop. No middlemen.