Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. if.fail – Share and discover ideas that failed launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Why We Fail▲76

   Learn from other people's failures.

   2016 · rosenfeldmedia.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Successful Mistake▲84

   Transform Your Mistakes & Failures Into Your Greatest Ideas

   2015 · publishizer.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Recode Replay - "Mistakes were Made"▲59

   A panel about failure at Code Conference 2016

   2016 · rss.art19.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Think Twice▲70

   Harnessing the power of counterintuition

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Seeking Wisdom: How To Come Up With Better Ideas▲68

   There's only one shortcut: learning from others.

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Seaworthy - 1: Mitigating the Risk of Startup Ideas▲56

   Strategies, methods, tools and tactics to start validating

   2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   Black Box Thinking▲66

   Why most people never learn from their mistakes--but some do

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Made to Stick▲82

   Why some ideas survive and others die

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Side Project Scoring Tool▲111

   A system to help creative people pick the right idea

   2015 · shipyoursideproject.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Relentless Me #9: How to recover from failure▲53

    A dead end is not the end!

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Collapse▲68

    How societies choose to fail and succeed

    2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Idea Swap▲85

    The sticky note way of exchanging ideas

    2014 · theideaswap.com · its alternatives →

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    But What If We're Wrong?▲62

    Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    How To Think – Discover and share thought processes▲7

    2017 · test.thinkhow.co · its alternatives →

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    Made to Stick▲71

    Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

    2015 · heathbrothers.com · its alternatives →

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    Slow to Fast - 01: On Diamonds and Happiness▲57

    Design sprints and how to kill the blame game

    2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite▲72

    Turning logic and common sense on its head

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Impactful - Certainty Chat▲53

    A chat on intellectual honesty & uncertainty.

    2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    DYT 002 : Dissecting Failure and Why Passion Beats Money with Jon Nastor▲58

    Exploring product failure and making hard decisions

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Foundr Podcast 111: Eugene Woo of Venngage▲55

    Learning through failure with Eugene Woo

    2016 · foundr.com · its alternatives →

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    FumbleBrag▲24

    Share and learn from other's failures and mistakes.

    2015 · fumblebrag.com · its alternatives →

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    The Startup Chat 144: How to become more thoughtful▲78

    How to think your way to bigger results

    2016 · thestartupchat.com · its alternatives →

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    Little Bets▲89

    How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Failure is Never Final▲58

    How to bounce back BIG from any defeat

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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