You asked about Computer Vision
48 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 5% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 4 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | AI company transforming enterprise physical security to prevent… · ambient.ai | still up |
| 2022-07-26 | cvat.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Power commerce photography with generative AI · photoroom.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Superb AI provides end-to-end computer vision MLOps platform · superb-ai.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Document AI. One API Call. · veryfi.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCOverview Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software · overview.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCTaiv AI-powered tech that makes business TV smarter, engaging, and… · taiv.tv | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCCrowdAI CrowdAI is the world's leading no-code platform for vision AI · crowdai.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMach9 AI CAD Software for Civil Engineering · mach9.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCEventual Building the AI data engine for any modality and scale · daft.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCerrion Video AI to automatically detect and respond to production line… · cerrion.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Database for AI · activeloop.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCaper Plug-and-play cashier-less retail powered by computer vision and AI · caper.ai | acquired |
| 2025-09-01 | The AI drawing review platform for architects and engineers. · getstructured.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCTraces Transform your video monitoring with AI · traces.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | In-store analytics AI assistant to fix your retail stores · auravision.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOda AI Agent for Home Design · odastudio.ai | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | AI performance monitoring for factory workers · optifye.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Build better computer vision models by building better datasets · segments.ai | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | App that turns selfie photos into thousand emoji that look like you… · mirror-ai.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | Analyze any footage, without training a model · ondeckai.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Network for Physical AI Data Business · deepreach.ai | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCAllus AI Transforming manufacturing with our next-gen Vision Foundation Model · allus.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Mobile app for CPG brands to connect to millions of stores globally · milkyway.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Computer vision that makes the industrial workplace, safer · protex.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | AI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time vision · openvector.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | AI agent that optimizes inference for embedded compute like Jetson · runlocal.ai | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | Robot Cowboys that Herd Cattle with AI Drones · brumby | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAedilic Open-Source AI-generated image/deepfake detection · nonescape.com | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | AI co-pilot for building plan review and building code compliance · permitify.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | YCBidflow AI Takeoffs for Electrical · usebidflow.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Enabling autonomous drone operations globally through AI software · irisonboard.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | Transform Images And Videos Into Immersive 3D With AI · digitalcarbon.ai | still up |
| 2022-10-03 | interior.computer | moved |
| 2022-10-17 | aragorn.ai | still up |
| 2022-12-02 | twitch.tv | still up |
| 2023-11-14 | flawless.is | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Automate circuit board design using AI · diode.computer | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCBild AI AI estimating & detailing for Division 8 doors, frames & hardware · bild.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-16 | hackaday.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Vision-powered warehouse automation: maximizing performance and value · powerhouseai.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCZomma The AI BPO for financial servies, run by computer-use agents · zommalabs.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | AI Infra for real-time vision applications · overshoot.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | AI that operates quantum computers for scientific discovery · conductorquantum.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCMarkov Expert computer-use data for frontier AI labs · markovstudios.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | Desktop RPA with AI computer use · autocomputer.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Turn your company's computer work into AI agents. · screenpipe.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI Diagnosis of Heart Disease · invisionmedtech.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | The tiny computer built for voice AI. · buttoncomputer.com | still up |
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.
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.