Dead Startups.
Living Lessons.

Turn someone else's failure into your success

Lighthouse is where founders of failed startups sell their post-mortem playbooks, customer data, and hard-earned lessons to new founders. Don't make the same mistakes — learn from the ghosts of startups past.

Start Learning From Failure

The Wow Moment

A new founder buys access to a failed food delivery startup's complete post-mortem. They see the exact day they ran out of runway, the customer acquisition costs that killed them, and the 12 pivot opportunities they missed.


In that moment, they realize they just saved themselves $500,000 and 18 months by learning from someone else's ghost instead of their own future catastrophe.

$500K
Saved Runway
18mo
Time Saved
12
Pivots Avoided
1
Ghost's Wisdom

Featured Post-Mortems

Real failures. Real lessons. Real savings.

Food Delivery

QuickBite Analytics

We burned $1.2M chasing CAC of $45 when LTV was $28. Complete breakdown of our unit economics death spiral.

$1.2M
Runway Burned
$45
CAC
8
Pivots Missed
SaaS B2B

PipelineCRM

The 6 pivots we should have made but didn't. Customer churn data, sales funnel leaks, and the fatal mistake of ignoring product-market fit signals.

$840K
Runway Burned
$320
CAC
6
Pivots Missed
Marketplace

LocalVendor Connect

Chicken-and-egg problem destroyed us. Here's our exact merchant acquisition strategy that failed, and what would have worked instead.

$650K
Runway Burned
$89
CAC
4
Pivots Missed
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