Maya Chen
Tech & Innovation Lead
Every day, thousands of GitHub repositories go silent. Their creators move on, lose interest, or simply forget. CodeArchaeology is a platform dedicated to discovering these abandoned projects and giving them new life.
Digital Ruins
Browse through a curated collection of abandoned repositories, sorted by their last commit date. Some haven't been touched in a decade. Many contain brilliant ideas that were simply ahead of their time.
The Stories Behind the Code
Each featured repository includes a "story" section where we investigate what happened to the project and its creator. Some are tales of startups that didn't make it. Others are passion projects interrupted by life. A few are mysteries we're still solving.
- 3,847 repositories catalogued and searchable
- 142 projects successfully resurrected by new maintainers
- 23 original creators reconnected with their old projects
"I found my dad's old project on here. He passed away in 2019, but seeing his code again—his comments, his variable names—it was like hearing his voice." — A visitor's testimonial
Adopt a Project
See something worth saving? The platform facilitates "adoptions" where new maintainers can fork, update, and breathe new life into abandoned code. Many projects just need someone to care again.
