# Welcome to the Digital Graveyard. We Brought Shovels. You sent us your wildest, weirdest, most gloriously unhinged dead ideas. We dug ten of them up and brought them back to life. 28 Oct 2026 · 3 min read · Product · By Sloosh Web page: https://sloosh.ai/blog/dead-ideas-society-showcase Everyone has that half-caffeinated draft sitting in a folder somewhere, slowly gathering digital dust. You sent us your wildest, weirdest, and most gloriously unhinged ideas during registration. Instead of letting them haunt you, we dug them up, gave them lab coats, and brought them back to life. Feast your eyes on the results below. ## The ten ideas we dug up Each one is the idea exactly as its creator wrote it at registration, next to what we built from it. Open one, put in your own inputs, and run it. **After Hours** Vinay wrote: "I wanted to make “After Hours,” a short-film series about a midnight ad agency whose clients are shops that have shut forever. A ghost shopkeeper slides an old receipt across the desk: “We never got to make our first ad.” Each episode gives one forgotten business an impossible commercial a tiny tailor stitches the night sky, a shuttered cafe pours a sunrise into a cup. Then we cut to the real, locked storefront. I shelved it because every 30-second story felt like it needed a film crew and a VFX budget. The last line, “Some dreams didn’t fail. The shutters just came down too soon.”" [Open the space](https://sloosh.ai/spaces/after-hours-episode-1) [Video: After Hours: one ghost shop’s first and only ad.](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18273-6202-776b-b47a-24ed97afd6e5.mp4) **The Call From Later** Gilang wrote: "A short film about a man who receives a phone call from his future self." [Open the space](https://sloosh.ai/spaces/storyboard-comic-manhwa-maker) ![Storyboard panels of a woman in a mustard jumper through her day in the city](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18276-2201-7139-a70f-2d3f7806af7c.jpg) **Nonna's Sauce** Carolyn wrote: "Pasta sauce (jarred product) based on Italian grandmother’s amazing recipe." [Open the space](https://sloosh.ai/spaces/nonna-s-sauce-launch-poster-ad-video) [Video: Nonna Rosa’s: a launch ad for a jarred sauce built on a grandmother’s recipe.](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18273-99b8-7e59-8ef4-03a5ea8a9a12.mp4) **Nothing on the Menu** Kushal wrote: "I wanted to open a restaurant where nobody could order food. Instead, every guest would bring a handwritten memory of a meal they once loved, and the chefs would try to recreate it based entirely on their story. The idea was to serve nostalgia, not just food." [Open the space](https://sloosh.ai/spaces/nothing-on-the-menu-memory-to-dish) ![A menu card titled Eleven Dollar Spaghetti with a pot of spaghetti](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18276-301f-77f6-8d24-87fda16e4d00.jpg) **Ugh. The Clink** Donald wrote: "An app that matches people based on their mutual hatred of specific things, but I realized building a platform fueled purely by spite might backfire." [Open the space](https://sloosh.ai/spaces/ugh-the-clink-60s-film-mahi-v-v) [Video: Ugh. The Clink: a 60s-film launch ad for a dating app that matches you on what you both hate.](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18273-85a4-73bb-ade7-2c112d275735.mp4) **Finishing Touches: Home Before & After** Gene wrote: "A business targeting new construction homeowners (possibly builders too), called "Finishing Touches". All the small things the builder missed, did not clean up or just simply did not care about. We come in after your new house is built and move-in ready, but not completely "finished". The things you notice, but might never get to, like that glue left on the floor, the staples you feel in the carpet, the nail pops or anything else that your warrant doesn't cover or its a hassel to get the builder to come back for." [See what we built](https://sloosh.ai/s/a/1d3bb852-3553-44df-93e2-decc4a218bfe) ![Before and after of a newly built room, unfinished on the left and finished on the right](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18276-3a8f-7fe0-bd50-056ee397aa56.jpg) **8-bit Horror MMORPG** Matt wrote: "A horror MMORPG for the Commodore 64. Beautiful, retro 8-bit terror in the client graphics. Modern sophisticated technology in the server." [See what we built](https://sloosh.ai/s/a/d957651e-a98f-4bfa-9914-3f5c75c9a7ab) ![A Commodore-style computer running an 8-bit horror game next to its boxed copy](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18276-4113-7782-a676-7744b4f29205.jpg) **The Erasure Office** Alina wrote: "An Erasure Office for an easy workflow to get companies to delete your data according to the GDPR, digital hygiene pointers as a bonus" [See what we built](https://sloosh.ai/s/a/6343c506-378e-42d4-9c32-58875f3c4401) ![A ghost clerk at The Erasure Office stamping files beside a shredder](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18276-49ef-7f9f-9138-cc81f84aa9a3.jpg) **Desk Rave** Dave wrote: "It was a way to gamify being at your desk for too long or none enough. It was called desk rave and earn progression in different ways. It had a few days it could detect if your at desk or not. I didn't quite understand music protection laws at the time and when I realized I can only use some pretty mediocre music, the whole project fell apart." [See what we built](https://sloosh.ai/s/a/4f0f436e-c2c2-47f6-b79a-d0bdb4231334) [Video: Desk Rave: the office desk that turns into a dance floor.](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a18273-a50e-70cc-a2dc-1a8d00e9a83e.mp4) **Dead Tech Launch** Anoubhav wrote: "Hype launch ads for stuff that’s already dead: fax machines, printing press, blackberry etc." [See what we built](https://sloosh.ai/s/a/9c4e189b-cb94-49ee-91d1-6ac0c1951959) [Video: Dead Tech Launch: a 1984-style TV ad for the FaxStar fax machine](https://cdn.pro.shopos.ai/sloosh/o/93664a0d00debd5d/01a1830b-dd71-7393-bb90-7ddbd376f63a.mp4) Got a dead idea of your own? Open any of the spaces above, swap in your inputs, and run it.