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I love the design of Product Graveyard! Personally, I would’ve gone with darker colors, seeing as it fits the whole “graveyard” theme.

One nitpick: isn’t it inefficient to generate a unique banner image for every dead product? Each one is largely the same, except for the product logo being in the center. Would help to remove these banners or compress them so pages load faster on mobile.

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Thanks for the feedback! In terms of the color scheme, I wanted to make Product Graveyard an inspiring place where we can honor great products and be thankful that they were once in our lives. Hence, the brighter colors and the more cheerful tone to it.

As for the banner, I will definitely make this improvement in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!

Those banner images are also way too big - they're 4800px x 3200px and 1.2mb, and take ages to load even on wired connections.

Any plans for adding categories/tags and/or search functionality?

Putting alternatives there is quite good.

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