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110 people built something like it. 110 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-08 | allclues.ai | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCWeave AI-assisted professional networking. · weave.in | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Never code alone. · squire.ai | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAedilic Open-Source AI-generated image/deepfake detection · nonescape.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPatterns Next-Gen Financial Analysis and Reporting with AI Agents · patterns.app | gone |
| 2022-08-23 | pornpen.ai | gone |
| 2022-11-30 | thegist.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-31 | ideas-generator.com | gone |
| 2022-01-05 | nonnfts.com | gone |
| 2022-01-04 | qr-code.ai | gone |
| 2022-09-21 | phantasmagoria.stavros.io | gone |
| 2023-05-12 | logicloop.com | gone |
| 2023-08-23 | gentrace.ai | gone |
| 2023-08-13 | notyet.news | gone |
| 2023-08-17 | textify.storia.ai | gone |
| 2023-11-23 | mycyclopedia.co | gone |
| 2023-09-18 | gron.games | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAXAR AI Multi-agent orchestration platform · axar.ai | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | ROSS is an AI-powered legal research platform that can read and… · rossintelligence.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | CCG.ai empowers clinicians to make personalised treatment strategies… · ccg.ai | gone |
| 2023-02-13 | designhat.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMine The AI personal finance company. · usemine.com | gone |
| 2023-09-09 | talebotai.com | gone |
| 2023-11-27 | drawfast.io | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | We go all out to Build the Smartest AI-Enabled Cameras! · avairsense.com | gone |
| 2021-01-07 | uniqueaiart.com | gone~35mo |
| 2023-04-04 | namique.xyz | gone |
| 2023-07-02 | agents.blue | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | AI.Fashion is the AI creative suite for the fashion industry. · ai.fashion | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Bicycle AI provides customer support as a service. We work on top of… · bicycleai.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | An AI-powered digital grocer that delivers in under 60 mins. · farmsteadapp.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCAtla The improvement engine for AI agents · atla-ai.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Thought-to-Language AI Models · mindportal.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | AI-powered corporate learning for accelerated employee growth & skill… · tailor-ed.com | gone |
| 2022-11-19 | chat-example.langa.me | gone |
| 2023-03-09 | vocalvoters.com | gone |
| 2023-04-08 | qi.amalgamated.tech | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCFlike Flike's AI crafts sales emails that convert · flike.app | gone |
| 2021-07-10 | canyouguess.art | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCPayflow AI FP&A Agent for insights, reports, planning and forecasting. · payflow.ai | gone |
| 2023-03-26 | guided.rest | gone |
| 2023-11-14 | app.verta.ai | gone |
| 2023-09-10 | vatchai.com | gone |
| 2023-08-21 | preview.steerlab.ai | gone |
| 2023-10-07 | checkfor.ai | gone |
| 2023-05-07 | pixelfy.ai | gone |
| 2023-10-22 | bsri.blog | gone |
| 2023-01-25 | genome.build | gone |
| 2023-04-06 | thatshallot.ai | gone |
| 2021-12-01 | galeras.io | gone |
| 2023-01-31 | app.gpthero.pro | gone |
| 2023-02-12 | qtubeai.com | gone |
| 2023-04-09 | yoomter.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCoffeeAI Instant, hyper-personalized, AI-powered outreach messages · get-coffee.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Mobile app for CPG brands to connect to millions of stores globally · milkyway.ai | gone |
| 2023-07-09 | biscuits.ai | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | Claim solar incentives with AI · jasmine.energy | gone |
| 2021-05-01 | namebatao.com | gone |
| 2021-09-15 | docstring.dev | gone |
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.
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.