This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition
What I Built
Every developer has a graveyard of side projects — started with fire, abandoned quietly on a Tuesday. They deserved better than an empty GitHub repo gathering digital dust.
DevGraveyard is a gothic memorial platform where developers give their abandoned passion projects a proper burial. Connect your GitHub, pick a dead repo, carve its epitaph — and watch Gemini AI write a dramatic breakup letter from you to the project.
Here's what it does:
- ⚰️ Bury a project — 3-step burial wizard: pick a repo → choose cause of death ("Never Made it Past Localhost", "Ran Out of Weekend", "It Was Complicated"...) → write an epitaph
- 🪦 Real tombstone data — pulls your actual commit history: peak obsession streak, most commits in a single day, last commit message (your final words)
- 🤖 AI Eulogy — Google Gemini writes a dramatic breakup letter from you to the project, referencing your real commit data
- 🕯️ Community mourning — light candles, leave RIP messages, vote to resurrect projects
- 🌐 3D Graveyard — a full Three.js interactive cemetery: bare trees, fireflies, flickering candles, soul wisps, resurrection pulse rings. Click any tombstone to interact
My own ARweave repo had 56 commits, a 2-day peak streak, 30 commits on its best day. Cause of death: "Never Made it Past Localhost." Last words: "feat: overlay plane in 3D builder — drag/scale image on marker, position saved to DB and restored in AR viewer."
It worked until it worked.
Demo
🔗 Live → devgraveyard.varshithvhegde.in
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Give your abandoned passion projects a proper burial. A gothic graveyard for dead side projects.
⚰️ DevGraveyard
A memorial for your abandoned side projects. They deserved better than an empty GitHub repo gathering digital dust.
Live → devgraveyard.varshithvhegde.in
What is this?
Every developer has a graveyard of passion projects — started with fire, abandoned quietly on a Tuesday. DevGraveyard gives them a proper burial.
- Bury a project — connect GitHub, pick a dead repo, choose a cause of death ("Never Made it Past Localhost", "Ran Out of Weekend", "It Was Complicated"...), write an epitaph
- Real tombstone data — pulls your actual commit history: peak streak, most commits in a day, last commit message as "final words"
- AI Eulogy — Google Gemini writes a dramatic breakup letter from you to the project, referencing your real commit data
- Community mourning — light candles, leave RIP messages, vote to resurrect projects
-
3D Graveyard — a full Three.js interactive cemetery at
/graveyard-3d. Click tombstones…
How I Built It
The Stack
| Layer | Tech |
|---|---|
| Frontend | Next.js 14 (App Router), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui |
| Auth + Database | Supabase (GitHub OAuth, Postgres, Row Level Security) |
| AI | Google Gemini gemini-2.5-flash
|
| 3D | Three.js + React Three Fiber + @react-three/drei |
| Animations | Motion (Framer Motion successor) |
| Deployment | Vercel |
Step 1 — Burying a Project
When you click "Bury a Project", a 3-step wizard walks you through:
- Choose Victim — your GitHub repos load via the API. Already-buried repos show an "already buried" badge and are disabled so you can't bury the same project twice.
- Write the Epitaph — pick a cause of death from a curated list or write your own. Add an optional epitaph (100 chars max). In the background we fetch your full commit history.
- Confirm Burial — a live tombstone preview renders with your real data before you commit.
Step 2 — Commit History as Emotional Data
This is the technical heart of the project. When you bury a repo, we paginate through the entire commit history via the GitHub API and compute what I call "obsession data":
// From src/lib/github/analyze.ts
export function computePeakObsession(commits: GitHubCommit[]) {
// commits per day → longest consecutive streak
// latest commit between midnight–5am → "latest night session"
// max commits in a single day → "best day"
// ...
}
These numbers feed directly into the tombstone — and into the Gemini prompt. A project that died after 30 commits on its best day tells a different story than one with 3 total commits.
Step 3 — The AI Eulogy
The eulogy prompt is carefully engineered to produce something specific, not generic:
Write exactly 3 paragraphs. Format as a letter FROM the developer
TO the project. Tone: dramatic, darkly funny, genuinely melancholic.
Opening: "Dear {repo_name},"
Reference at least 2 of these real data points:
- Peak obsession: 30 commits in a single day
- Latest night session: 2:34 AM
- Cause of death: "Never Made it Past Localhost"
- Last commit message: "feat: overlay plane in 3D builder..."
Close with: "Yours, but not anymore, — A Tired Developer"
Max 250 words. No markdown.
The results are genuinely surprising. Gemini knows you committed at 2 AM. It writes about that specific obsession. Here's what it produced for my ARweave project:
"I remember the fervor, the peak obsession when I clocked 30 commits in a single day, mapping out every PLpgSQL schema and every front-end interaction. We built features that felt so robust within the confines of our little local development environment. You were a vibrant, if demanding, companion, demanding all my CPU cycles and mental bandwidth..."
The eulogy reveals with a typewriter animation when first generated, then persists in Supabase forever.
Step 4 — The 3D Graveyard
The 3D view at /graveyard-3d is a full Three.js scene built with React Three Fiber.
The tombstone shape is a single ExtrudeGeometry from a THREE.Shape — a rectangle with absarc for the semicircular arch. Much cleaner than a box + half-cylinder:
function makeTombShape() {
const w = 0.34, h = 0.95;
const shape = new THREE.Shape();
shape.moveTo(-w, 0);
shape.lineTo(-w, h);
shape.absarc(0, h, w, Math.PI, 0, false); // perfect semicircle
shape.lineTo(w, 0);
return shape;
}
Animations in the scene:
- Tombstones rise from underground on load, staggered by index (ease-out cubic)
-
FlickerCandle— cone flame with per-frame scale noise + matchingPointLightintensity flicker -
SoulWisps— glowing orbs float upward from tombstones with candles lit -
ResurrectPulse— an expandingringGeometryon the ground below voted tombstones - 55 firefly particles with sine-wave drift
- Fog, stars, bare winter trees, directional moonlight
You can light candles and vote to resurrect directly from the 3D panel — it calls the real API and the stone reacts in real time.
The Public Graveyard Wall
Every buried project joins the public memorial wall at /graveyard, sortable by newest, most mourned, or most resurrection votes.
Design Philosophy
The entire aesthetic is built around one idea: this should feel like a real memorial, not a joke. Developers genuinely grieve abandoned projects. The tombstones use engraved text, chiseled dividers, moss at the base. The AI eulogy takes commit data seriously. The community features are real interactions — your candle is stored in a database, your RIP message has an author and a timestamp.
The passion isn't just the theme. It's the subject matter.
Prize Categories
🏆 Best Use of Google AI
DevGraveyard uses Google Gemini (gemini-2.5-flash) as the emotional core of the product. The eulogy generation prompt is engineered to reference specific real data points from the user's commit history — producing output that feels genuinely personal rather than generic AI text.
The key insight: the AI isn't just generating content, it's transforming raw GitHub telemetry (commit counts, timestamps, last message) into something that makes you feel the loss of a project you actually cared about.
The eulogy is generated once per tombstone (owner only), stored permanently in Supabase, and revealed with a typewriter animation. It costs one API call and lasts forever — the project's eulogy becomes part of its memorial.
Built in a weekend. My ARweave repo will never see production. But now it has a tombstone. That's something.
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