You asked about Food Service Robots & Machines
27 people built something like it. 3 are gone.
That is 12% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2022-07-26 | cvat.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | AI customer reputation & performance management for restaurant chains. · superorder.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKaso AI group purchasing for restaurants · kaso.ai | still up |
| 2023-05-06 | moodfood.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSekilo Building the AI powered halal protein supply chain for foodservice in… · sekilo.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | An AI-powered digital grocer that delivers in under 60 mins. · farmsteadapp.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Applied AI Data Research Lab Encoding Human Expertise into Machines… · useocular.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | AI models that teach robots new skills in hours · vernerobotics.com | still up |
| 2023-11-26 | dreamachines.ai | gone |
| 2024-09-01 | YCInnate Personal AI Robots · innate.bot | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Manufacturing more proteins with AI. · tenlives.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Increasing restaurant profitability through our AI Operating System · bytekitchen.io | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | Smart grocery pricing with AI · betterbasket.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | Robots, parts & RL envs & evals - delivered in 48 hrs / pickup in SF. · roboticscenter.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCScout AI insights for consumer products · cpgscout.ai | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | Robots for high skilled labor powering AI infrastructure · shepherdrobotics.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI back office for food product quality teams · cognitioiq.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI control layer for welding robots · tekton-dynamics.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | YCRemy AI Automating dexterous tasks in warehouses with AI-powered robots · tryremy.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Robots that learn on the job · shiraz.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Your personal context, securely portable across every AI app. · ego.ist | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | AI-native ERP for food wholesalers · stockline.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Teaching AI to Design Chips · standardmachines.com | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | YCAsakana AI order entry for food distributors: emails and texts to ERP · asakana.co | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | Reimagining how Machines Learn · lucidic.ai | 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.