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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. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | YCOnyx Open Source AI Chat · onyx.app | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCMem0 The Memory layer for AI Agents · mem0.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Open-Source Reinforcement Learning (RL) & Fine-tuning for LLMs. · unsloth.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Workspace for your AI Agents, Build any Workflow. · dench.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCTusk AI agent that generates unit and integration tests · usetusk.ai | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | Open-source AI coworker with memory · rowboatlabs.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCcmux Open source applied AI lab building next-gen devtools · cmux.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLantern Postgres vector database extension to build AI applications · lantern.dev | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Security for AI-native developers · superagent.sh | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAedilic Open-Source AI-generated image/deepfake detection · nonescape.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | Open source AI copilot that knows your company's code and its context · storia.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI tooling · withpretzel.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | The fastest developer experience for building on open source AI. · openfoundry.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCOpslane Verify AI-generated code before you ship it · opslane.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCTracecat The open source AI-native security automation platform · tracecat.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCOpen Enterprise AI customer support · open.cx | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCOpencall Practice admin run by AI · opencall.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.