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| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 | Paperspace is a cloud platform for building and scaling AI… · paperspace.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCCrowdAI CrowdAI is the world's leading no-code platform for vision AI · crowdai.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCPowerX AI powered sensors that save energy, water and emissions · powerx.co | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | Talent AI improving quality of hire · searchlight.ai | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCEdwin Edwin is virtual English tutor - an AI-powered service for learning… · edwin.ai | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | Humanloop is the LLM evals platform for enterprises. · humanloop.com | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | YCPhiar We are developing a revolutionary AI-powered augmented reality… · phiar.net | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Dramatically better search and ads for marketplaces · promoted.ai | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHypaHub A Cloud-Based Bioinformatics and AI Platform · hypahub.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | The AI-powered risk decision platform · trycatamaran.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCSepal AI Data Development for Advanced AI · sepalai.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Build better computer vision models by building better datasets · segments.ai | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | Wearables and AI to predict and prevent sepsis outside the hospital · sepsisscout.com | acquired |
How this compares
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.