You asked about Marketing
17 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 13% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-29 | octie.ai | still up |
| 2022-05-16 | ortto.com | still up |
| 2022-10-05 | juice.ai | unverified |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTruva Sell more. Grind less with AI agents. · truva.ai | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | Create video by chatting to AI · wondercraft.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Run, Track and manage any and all user incentive campaigns. · rehook.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKular AI Lead Generator · kular.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCngrow.ai Low-code SaaS for marketing in push notifications · ngrow.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCotera The fastest way to build an AI agent · cotera.co | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCSuperbar Sales AI for your Website · superbar.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCMindbase Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans… · mymindbase.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSprites The AI performance marketing agent for entrepreneurs and growth teams · sprites.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAvina GTM signals engine for sales teams. Automate warm outbound with AI. · avina.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAd Army Generate, iterate, and ship AI ad creatives faster · ad.army | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRanla The AI growth marketer that turns SaaS signups into revenue · ranla.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUberduck Fast, professional content creation with AI audio, image, and video. · uberduck.ai | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPopsy AI tool that finds you leads on Reddit and sends them hyper… · popsy.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCZorba AI copilot for real-estate sales teams, powered by proprietary data · getzorba.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.