You asked about Industrial Bio
17 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 6% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | AI Inference Platform for Drug Discovery · tamarind.bio | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCDistro The AI co-pilot for sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors. · distro.app | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Agent-Driven Engineering · navier.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI for Robot Arms in Factories · pivotrobotics.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Gen AI molecular simulations that reproduce wetlab results · angstrom-ai.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | AI that operates quantum computers for scientific discovery · conductorquantum.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI control layer for welding robots · tekton-dynamics.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | AI for life sciences documents · raycaster.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCAluna Data for biomedical AI · alunadata.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | The AI scientist for always-on biodefense · aminoanalytica.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | Scaling Genomic AI for Embryo Selection · reticular.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Energy efficient chips for AI · zscc.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | AI document creation and data management for clinical trials · baselinetrials.com | gone |
| 2024-09-01 | AI that gets aircraft flying faster · tryforerunner.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCConsus The fastest and cheapest way to use AI with ITAR or CUI data. · consus.io | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI Hypothesis Engine for Molecular Discovery · junction.bio | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | An AI agent for scientific research · undermind.ai | 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.