liv is shutting down

There’s no good way to dress this up, so here it is plainly: I’m shutting Liv down. It’s closed to new signups as of today, and the platform goes dark on 26 September 2026.

The housekeeping first, because that’s what actually matters to anyone still using it. Everything below is also on the shutdown notice, which is the page I’ll keep pointing people at.

Your agent keeps running normally until 26 September. Nothing changes between now and then.

Your data is retained for 30 days after shutdown, until 26 October 2026, and is then permanently deleted. If you want a copy, email support@liv4all.com and I’ll put an export together. If you’d rather I deleted it immediately, say so and I’ll do that instead, and confirm when it’s done.

Your billing, if you’re still a subscriber on the 26th, gets refunded pro-rata to your original payment method for the unused days in your billing period. You don’t need to cancel anything or chase me. It just happens.

why

The traction wasn’t there. Not for lack of trying, and honestly not for lack of people giving it a real go, but the reach and the stickiness never arrived. I’d rather put my energy into another project than keep this one on life support.

I’m resisting the urge to write the tidy post-mortem where every failure turns out to have been a lesson in disguise. Some of it genuinely was. Some of it was just a product that a hundred-odd people tried, a smaller number liked, and not enough people needed badly enough to keep paying for. That’s the whole story, and dressing it up as a five-point framework would be doing the thing I spent two years writing articles against.

What I will say is this: the technology worked. An agent that reads your inbox, holds context across weeks, and books a table without you opening a tab is not science fiction, and building it in 2026 was not the hard part. Getting people to hand over their Gmail, to trust it enough to stop double-checking it, and then to keep using it after the novelty wore off, that was the hard part. I underestimated the distance between “this is impressive” and “I would miss this if it were gone.” Every one of those is a different problem, and I mostly solved the first.

what stays

This site stays up as an archive. The articles are still here, the answers on OpenClaw and self-hosting are still accurate and still useful, and the trust and privacy pages stay for as long as they need to.

If you were running Liv and want to keep something like it going, OpenClaw is the open-source agent loop underneath it, MIT-licensed, and the self-hosting guides in the answers section will get you most of the way there. It’s more work than paying someone $79 a month. That was rather the point of Liv, and it turns out not enough people agreed.

thank you

You trusted an early, rough thing with your calendar and your inbox. A few of you told me exactly where it hurt, which is the most useful gift you can give someone building something.

I’m grateful, and I’m sorry I couldn’t make it stick.

If you want to stay in touch, or you’re curious what’s next, email support@liv4all.com. I read everything.

Leo 🖤