BreakPoint Drop

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.

Drop a project or browse 20 waiting projects →

BreakPoint is pre-launch. The 20 projects in the directory are real and abandoned — none have been adopted yet. Try the free audit to see your own stack.

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Projects waiting

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Adopted

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Rescued & shipping

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Awaiting first
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How it works

From abandoned to adopted in three steps

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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.

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.

State of Abandonment 2026 → All 8 verticals → The guides →

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.

More for you

For developers

Adopter's guide

For maintainers

Maintainer handoff guide

The data

State of Abandonment 2026

Build in public

The changelog

Ready to drop one?

You walked away from something. Someone out there wants to finish it. Two minutes to drop. No middlemen.

Drop a project → or audit your org's supply chain →