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8 people built something like it. 8 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | YCFlike Flike's AI crafts sales emails that convert · flike.app | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCVOIQ Conversational AI VoiceBots for Business · voiq.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCriya AI that builds GTM assets in seconds · criya.co | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCoffeeAI Instant, hyper-personalized, AI-powered outreach messages · get-coffee.ai | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | AI Sales Rep for Website Intent Signals · penguinai.app | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Give Salesforce the AI upgrade it deserves · crmcopilot.co | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFabius AI to improve Sales Calls · fabius.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Sales AI that helps revenue teams move faster and close more deals. · firstquadrant.ai | 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.