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27 people built something like it. 27 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | YCSprintAI AI-led platform for inventory and fulfillment optimization · getsprint.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | We make $1,000 Amazon Go stores. · maitian.ai | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCThread Thread makes it incredibly easy to dress well, using stylists and AI · thread.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | ROSS is an AI-powered legal research platform that can read and… · rossintelligence.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMine The AI personal finance company. · usemine.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Thought-to-Language AI Models · mindportal.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCEasyplan An AI-driven investment app for beginner investors in India · easyplan.in | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCPayflow AI FP&A Agent for insights, reports, planning and forecasting. · payflow.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | AI driven professional engineering firm · traverse.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Mobile app for CPG brands to connect to millions of stores globally · milkyway.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Building Gong.io for offline retail. · outloud.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCNophin AI Deal Screening Analyst for Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions · nophin.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCAlgoriz Algoriz is an AI based algorithmic trading platform that enables you… · algoriz.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | The AI copilot for health insurance brokers. · blumebenefits.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCArgovox Voice AI agents for patient billing and collections · argovox.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI for drug formulation · lavo.ai | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCStruct Multi-lingual AI Voice Agents · struct.app | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCArdis AI Transform your text data into a searchable knowledge graph · ardis.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCHypnos AI-powered sleep coach learns and optimizes your sleep · hypnos.ai | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Overview Search, as a Service · branch-ai.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YC20n Using AI to predict biochemistry for manufacturing and therapeutics · 20n.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPit.AI Solving intelligence for investment management. · pit.ai | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Airo is an AI wearable to track mental health. · airohealth.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Sway is bringing AI to the accounting industry · swayfinance.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | AI document creation and data management for clinical trials · baselinetrials.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCOpkit AI phone calls for the US healthcare industry · opkit.co | gone |
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.