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22 people built something like it. 6 are gone.
That is 29% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | AI native mobile testing. · mobileboost.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAxiom.ai No-code Browser RPA · axiom.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAbacum The AI-native FP&A platform that helps Finance teams drive business… · abacum.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFathom The most flexible AI meeting notetaker ever built. · fathom.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories · fluxauto.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSully.ai Autonomous team of AI agents that runs the entire hospital operations · sully.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLago The AI Native Billing Platform · getlago.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMoichor AI Powered Animal Diagnostics · moichor.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOpenCode The open source AI coding agent · opencode.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Plan and review AI generated code · vibekanban.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Thought-to-Language AI Models · mindportal.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Never code alone. · squire.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | AI workers that book, scribe, code, interpret, and answer clinicians · rejoyhealth.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCunSurvey AI-led market research interviews, no scheduling, instant insights. · unsurvey.ai | acquired |
| 2021-09-07 | denigma.app | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-designed Affinity Reagents · medium.bio | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2021-09-15 | docstring.dev | gone |
| 2021-12-15 | explaincode.app | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI that solves email overwhelm. Not another mail app. · foragemail.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCodeball AI-Powered Code Review · codeball.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSentiyen Conversational AI assistants using your knowledge · sentiyen.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.