Across 14,239 launches
Most things people launch quietly stop existing.
Unfunded side projects are gone at roughly twice the rate of venture-funded startups over the same years. Type an idea above to see who already tried it, or use the filters to explore.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-01 | Household needs, from bread to everything. · breadfast.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCDoorDash Restaurant delivery. · doordash.com | acquired |
| 2009-06-01 | YCStripe Economic infrastructure for the internet. · stripe.com | still up |
| 2009-01-01 | YCAirbnb Book accommodations around the world. · airbnb.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | YCCoinbase Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies. · coinbase.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | Cloud solutions for the construction industry. · equipmentshare.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | The fastest shipping for online shopping · 99minutos.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2007-06-01 | YCDropbox Backup and share files in the cloud. · dropbox.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Online engineering college for India. Learn technical skills & get… · skill-lync.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCCruise Self-driving cars. · getcruise.com | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | YCFlexport Platform for global logistics. · flexport.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup · instacart.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCChaldal chaldal.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCRazorpay India's only full-stack financial solutions company for businesses. · razorpay.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Building humanity’s multiplanetary future. · relativityspace.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCGusto Provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team · gusto.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCGitLab A complete DevOps platform delivered as a single application. · gitlab.com | acquired |
| 2007-01-01 | YCTwitch A global community creating the future of live entertainment. · twitch.com | acquired |
| 2005-06-01 | YCReddit The frontpage of the internet. · reddit.com | acquired |
| 2021-02-26 | justine.lol | unverified |
| 2023-06-12 | non.io | still up |
| 2022-09-18 | dogbunnypuzzle.com | gone |
| 2022-10-27 | giza.mused.org | unverified |
| 2022-11-03 | veed.io | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCWave Mobile money app for Africa · wave.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. · goatgroup.com | still up |
| 2023-12-05 | beeper.com | still up |
| 2010-01-01 | The first all-in-one operating system for marketing · optimizely.com | acquired |
| 2022-11-16 | notion.so | moved |
| 2016-06-01 | YCMeesho Democratizing internet commerce for everyone in India · meesho.com | acquired |
| 2022-11-01 | rewind.ai | still up |
| 2022-12-20 | obsidian.md | still up |
| 2022-09-02 | openship.org | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCTruepill API-connected healthcare infrastructure. · truepill.com | acquired |
| 2022-02-17 | bardeen.ai | still up |
| 2022-03-17 | amie.so | still up |
| 2022-02-07 | sha256algorithm.com | still up |
| 2022-01-13 | looptap.vasanthv.com | gone |
| 2022-05-04 | folk.app | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCFivetran The leader in automated data movement · fivetran.com | still up |
| 2021-04-14 | lofi.cafe | still up |
| 2023-05-11 | boringreport.org | still up |
| 2022-11-30 | wyldcard.io | still up |
| 2022-03-01 | lessmilk.com | gone |
| 2022-04-04 | heyday.xyz | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2021-11-05 | nomdebebe.app | gone |
| 2021-09-07 | bonsaibrowser.com | gone |
| 2023-12-22 | heynote.com | still up |
| 2022-05-24 | peerlist.io | unverified |
| 2018-01-01 | YCGroww Making financial services simple, transparent and delightful. · groww.in | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSuper Super is the first and leading Indonesian social commerce platform · superapp.id | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | The first public safety operating system that eliminates crime. · flocksafety.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCBrex Business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management software. · brex.com | acquired |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.