What Projects and Side Projects Are Featured on Waxy.org?

Waxy.org is the personal site of Andy Baio, and it functions as a hub for the projects he has created, helped build, or maintained over the years. The site itself is a blog and sandbox rather than a product, so the projects appear in two ways: as ongoing links and as posts documenting their creation, redesign, or retirement. The most current status information comes from a series of "Waxy Refresh" posts published in July and August 2026, which describe a quiet effort to update several long-dormant side projects.

Projects Named on the Site

The site's own description lists the following:

• XOXO — an event Baio made
• Upcoming — a project he made
• Belong.io — a project he made
• Playfic — a project he made
• Kind of Bloop — a project he made
• Kickstarter — a project he helped build
• "a bunch of other stuff too"

That list is a starting point, not a complete inventory. The refresh posts add detail on two projects in particular.

Playfic: Retired After 14 Years

Playfic was a community for writing and sharing interactive fiction games, launched in 2012 with Baio's then-teenaged nephew, Cooper. According to the August 3, 2026 post, it was retired after 14 years.

The stated reasons were maintenance and obsolescence — two separate pressures. Maintenance covers the ongoing cost of keeping a community platform running; obsolescence covers the platform no longer fitting current technology or use. The post is titled "The End of Playfic," so treat the shutdown as final rather than a pause.

If you are looking for Playfic today, the practical takeaway is that the community is no longer operating as described in its original form.

Supercut.org: Redesigned and Back Online

Supercut.org has a longer and messier history than Playfic, and it is currently live.

• 2011 — first launched as part of Seven on Seven with Michael Bell-Smith
• Later in 2011 — redesigned as a browsable archive of every supercut Baio could find
• End of 2015 — taken offline entirely after his server was hacked
• 2020 — brought back after auditing the old PHP for security holes
• July 31, 2026 — design refresh announced

The refresh retired the basic Bootstrap theme, made the site responsive, and kept the overall layout. Content changes included:

• Removing all unavailable videos
• Replacing deleted videos with alternatives where possible
• Clearing a long backlog of submissions
• Adding many new supercuts, several from Max Tohline's A Supercut of Supercuts: Aesthetics, Histories, Databases

The live collection now holds over 580 videos. There is an "Add" link on the site for suggesting more.

Why So Many Videos Disappeared

The post lists the causes directly: videos were deleted, privatized, removed for copyright infringement, or made inaccessible by Vimeo. This is a useful pattern to recognize if you maintain any kind of media archive — link rot on third-party platforms is the default, not the exception, and replacements are not always findable.

The Site Itself Was Refreshed

A July 30, 2026 post describes smaller incremental changes made over the preceding weeks: fixing long-standing issues and polishing rough edges. Baio notes that readers who consume Waxy.org entirely via RSS may not have noticed the changes at all.

How to Read the Project List

The pattern across these posts is worth noting: Baio revisits old projects in batches, decides per project whether to repair or retire, and documents the reasoning. If you are trying to determine whether a specific Waxy project is still running, the refresh posts are the most reliable signal available here — and for anything not covered in them, the site itself is the place to check.