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7 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 14% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | YCDraftaid Go from 3D models to CAD drawings using AI · draftaid.io | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCDistro The AI co-pilot for sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors. · distro.app | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Automate circuit board design using AI · diode.computer | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI for Robot Arms in Factories · pivotrobotics.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCSoff AI Agents for Distributors · soff.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCcamfer Building the world’s first AI mechanical engineer. · camfer.dev | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | AI control layer for welding robots · tekton-dynamics.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.