Back in 2012-2013 I worked on a startup project called NewCo, as in the New Company. The idea was to offer a place where consumers would exchange information ab

Back in 2012-2013 I worked on a startup project called NewCo, as in the New Company. The idea was to offer a place where consumers would exchange information about the products they used and loved thus empowering you to make better and faster buying decisions. We never did any money, except like 30€ through affiliate programs, that's why we failed. Also because of strong disagreements between the co-founders ;) Long story short, the original website is still running at: http://newco-prod.herokuapp.com/ http://newco-prod.herokuapp.com/ and I wanted to replace a feedback form that no longer worked by some comment about the startup story. Problem: I could no longer run the website locally and my code push were rejected by heroku. Two days of rabbitholing later I managed to rebuild and deploy the app and decided to opensource it: https://github.com/blaze33/newco-legacy https://github.com/blaze33/newco-legacy We always hear a lot of success stories and I thought it might be of some interest to HNers to show you the work of a failed startup. I left some advice to future entrepreneurs in the README. The stack is old: Python 2.7, Django 1.4, Heroku cedar-14 (upgraded from cedar-10 this week-end), redis, postgresql, celery. Feel free to share your thoughts, but be warned this is a messy codebase, we were young and unexperienced ;) I should be online this evening if you have any questions.