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1,454 people built something like it. 109 are gone.
That is 8% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 84 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Rebuilding healthcare with AI at the core · akidolabs.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | AI-First Creative Partner for Enterprise Teams · superside.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCIronclad AI-powered contract management · ironcladapp.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTractian Physical AI for asset-heavy industries · tractian.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCLeena AI We at Leena AI build a virtual assistant that answers employee's… · leena.ai | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCScale AI Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI · scale.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLegora The AI workspace for lawyers · legora.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCUnbabel AI-powered Language Operations platform · unbabel.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | YCPlivo Voice AI Agents for customer engagement, including WhatsApp, SMS &… · plivo.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Harnesses business activity to unlock growth. · people.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCSendbird The AI agent that doesn’t just support, it delights. · sendbird.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Corgi is building an AI financial infrastructure company · corgi.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Contact center AI platform. · observe.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | AI + Robotics for the Built World · geckorobotics.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCJerry Jerry is building the AI agent to manage all your physical assets. · jerry.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | The leading Composable CDP and AI Decisioning platform · hightouch.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Vertical AI for Audit & Advisory Firms · fieldguide.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCyble Cyble - World’s First Intelligence-Driven, AI-Native Security… · cyble.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Jasper is a leader in creating content using Artificial Intelligence · jasper.ai | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | AI-powered checkout for retail. · standard.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEncord The data layer for physical AI · encord.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCTaktile Transform your decision-making with reliable AI agents in weeks, not… · taktile.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | AI company transforming enterprise physical security to prevent… · ambient.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCoLab Human and AI design review for hardware · colabsoftware.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI to engage employees, predict attrition and automate HR/IT support · infeedo.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCvoize We build the AI companion for nurses, to create time for care. · voize.de | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCDaily Conversational Voice and Multimodal AI built with Open Source · daily.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAbacum The AI-native FP&A platform that helps Finance teams drive business… · abacum.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPibit.ai The fastest path from submission to better decisions. · pibit.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCDeepgram Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding. · deepgram.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCNumeral The AI-native sales tax solution. · numeral.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCampfire The AI Native ERP for the fastest growing companies. · campfire.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Power commerce photography with generative AI · photoroom.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCAIOS Building AI-native infrastructure for the next era of care. · aiosmedical.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCHENRY We train AI engineers and connect them with companies. · soyhenry.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCUserGems The AI Command Center for outbound and ABM · usergems.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | Physical AI data lab · humanarchive.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCodingal Leading online after-school for kids & teens to learn AI & coding · codingal.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Applied AI for The Emerging Economies · latentspace.sh | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Your AI partner for North America truckload freight · nuvocargo.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Building the next generation AI creative studio · moonvalley.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFathom The most flexible AI meeting notetaker ever built. · fathom.ai | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCThread Thread makes it incredibly easy to dress well, using stylists and AI · thread.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCAirbyte Context layer for production-grade AI agents · airbyte.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | AI-native operating system for home service businesses · broccoli.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVahan AI recruiter for India's massive blue-collar workforce · vahan.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCAvoca AI-powered Sales Agent for Service-Based Industries · avoca.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCModel ML AI Workspace for Financial Services. · modelml.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCWarp AI-native Employee Management Platform for High-Growth Companies · warp.co | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Superb AI provides end-to-end computer vision MLOps platform · superb-ai.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRDash AI Powered Construction Management Software · rdash.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Construction's AI Platform · permitflow.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | AI games and entertainment on TV · weekend.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRootly AI-native on-call and incident response carefully crafted to help… · rootly.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTavus Building the human layer of AI · tavus.io | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCHatch The AI CSR Platform · usehatch.ai | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | End-to-end content, learning, & deal intelligence for B2B sales teams · letter.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | QueryPie AIP - Enterprise Ready Agentic AI Platform · querypie.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | AI-Powered Building Management · vergesense.com | still up |
How this compares
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.