You asked about Auto Commerce
20 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 12% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 3 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCConfido AI-enabled financial automation and intelligence for CPG Brands · confidotech.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMindee AI Document Understanding API · mindee.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories · fluxauto.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSoraban AI tax workflow platform for accounting firms · soraban.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSully.ai Autonomous team of AI agents that runs the entire hospital operations · sully.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDatrics Generative AI Healthcare Coding Automation · datrics.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI Agents for Data Operations · oneschema.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAbstra Automate finance operations with Python and AI · abstra.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Dramatically better search and ads for marketplaces · promoted.ai | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCZensors AI to understand and automates the physical world · zensors.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCRoutine AI-native all-in-one workspace for startups · routine.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBiodock Cloud AI microscopy automation · biodock.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAxiom.ai No-code Browser RPA · axiom.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Cut your writing time by 40% with AI-powered autocomplete · compose.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVenu AI Meet qualified leads in person by automating conference production · venu3d.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Increasing restaurant profitability through our AI Operating System · bytekitchen.io | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBytebot Bytebot is the open source container for AI desktop agents. · bytebot.ai | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSequin Sequin is building AI Voice Agents to automate collections calls for… · sequinai.com | still up |
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.