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6 open-source projects that crashed under the weight of their own success

Fireship, 7 min, 783.7K views, Feb 26, 2026

Original title: When open-sourcing your code goes wrong...

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Try out CodeRabbit’s AI code reviewer with custom PR summaries - https://coderabbit.link/fireship. It’s free forever for any open source project. Everything you use on the internet today is built on the shoulders of OSS - but not every open-source project makes it. Let's take a look at 5 open-source projects that achieved a meteoric rise and then crashed out under the weight of their own success. #coding #programming #oss 🔖 Topics Covered - Mutable Instruments - Faker.js - Meteor - OpenSolaris - Netscape Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev