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Amazon Dash Button

Lasted

about 4 years

March 2015  →  31 August 2019

Cause of death
Killed by a successor
Made by
Amazon

Amazon disabled all physical Dash Buttons on 31 August 2019, six months after ending their sale.

The Dash Button was an adhesive plastic button that reordered exactly one product when pressed, and in 2015 this genuinely looked like the future of shopping. Amazon stopped selling them in February 2019 while promising existing owners could keep pressing, then switched every button off on 31 August 2019 anyway. Alexa and free virtual buttons did the same job without requiring anyone to glue hardware to a washing machine.

Standing in the archive

Rank 104 of 127 by lifespan. Amazon Dash Button outlasted 18% of everything else on file.

Cite this entry

"Amazon Dash Button." How Long It Lasted, https://www.howlongitlasted.com/thing/amazon-dash-button.

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Last checked by a human on 24 July 2026