You asked about Generative AI
1,592 people built something like it. 0 are gone.
That is 0% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-01 | YCLeena AI We at Leena AI build a virtual assistant that answers employee's… · leena.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLegora The AI workspace for lawyers · legora.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Jasper is a leader in creating content using Artificial Intelligence · jasper.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI to engage employees, predict attrition and automate HR/IT support · infeedo.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPibit.ai The fastest path from submission to better decisions. · pibit.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Power commerce photography with generative AI · photoroom.com | still up |
| 2023-06-27 | flux.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTavus Building the human layer of AI · tavus.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJuicebox AI-powered talent sourcing for recruiters · juicebox.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCGovDash AI platform to win and run government contracts · govdash.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLanded Generative AI for frontline worker hiring · gotlanded.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Contract and negotiation AI built for lawyers · draftwise.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCVetRec AI Scribe for veterinarians. Saving time and improving patient care. · vetrec.io | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSalient AI Servicing for Auto Lenders · trysalient.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Orangewood Labs makes worlds most affordable and easiest AI robot arms · orangewood.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Track & Boost Your Brand’s Visibility in AI Search · writesonic.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLanceDB Open-source, serverless vectordb for production-scale generative AI · lancedb.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCMixerBox AI Super-Apps to Live Easier | The anything anytime superapps… · mixerbox.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | DreamWorld is a next-gen Minecraft with generative AI building · playdreamworld.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Operating System for Private Market Investors · vectorshift.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCTruewind AI-Powered Accounting · truewind.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Virtualizing brick-mortar infrastructures of clinics w/ generative AI · ankr.us | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Generative AI powered Shopify for home service professionals · toplinepro.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The most magical personal Voice-Led AI English Learning Buddy for Kids · sparkstudio.co | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCD-ID Enable creators and developers to generate realistic AI personas · d-id.com | still up |
| 2023-03-08 | forethought.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The fastest way to ship airtight AI · openlayer.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCkapa.ai The fastest way to build AI assistants on technical content · kapa.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDatrics Generative AI Healthcare Coding Automation · datrics.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCOpen Enterprise AI customer support · open.cx | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFloworks Hire the best AI Sales employees | AI SDR | AI RevOps | AI EA · floworks.ai | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCLemonBox AI-generated personalized nutrition solutions, built for you daily. · lemonbox.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCAccend AI agents for commercial underwriting at banks and fintechs · withaccend.com | still up |
| 2023-01-29 | dystr.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Automate security and privacy reviews · clearly-ai.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCoLoop AI Copilot for insights & strategy · coloop.ai | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Database for AI · activeloop.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCarnata AI workers for the logistics industry. · arnata.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Agents For RFP and Questionnaire Response Automation · inventive.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI-native Operating System for Enterprise Ecommerce Companies · hypotenuse.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI native mobile testing. · mobileboost.io | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCUsul AI Platform for Winning Defense & Government Contracts · usul.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Affogato AI — Your Agent for instant TikToks, Reels, and ads. · affogato.ai | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCCalltree Enterprise-grade AI support reps for call centers · calltree.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCFini Fini | Automate 80% of enterprise support with AI agents · usefini.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Liability insurance for generative AI and AI Agents · armilla.ai | still up |
| 2023-04-08 | aiproduct.tools | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | The Control Plane for Enterprise Agents · credal.ai | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCTara AI Meet Tara AI, your new engineering efficiency co-pilot. · tara.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSkypher AI agent for Compliance Questionnaires Automation · skypher.co | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCLayerup Agentic AI OS for Financial Services and Insurance · uselayerup.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Generative AI for protein design · diffuse.bio | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLiteLLM Call every LLM API like it's OpenAI [100+ LLMs] · litellm.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Vibe code games. · rosebud.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCMem0 The Memory layer for AI Agents · mem0.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCBoundary The programming language for AI · boundaryml.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCROE AI for risk and compliance · getroe.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI-powered business matchmaking · namecard.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCSenso Control what AI says about you · senso.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStrac Data Discovery, DLP, DSPM for SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI & Endpoints · strac.io | still up |
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.