You asked about SaaS
299 people built something like it. 32 are gone.
That is 12% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 22 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | AI-First Creative Partner for Enterprise Teams · superside.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCIronclad AI-powered contract management · ironcladapp.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTractian Physical AI for asset-heavy industries · tractian.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Harnesses business activity to unlock growth. · people.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCSendbird The AI agent that doesn’t just support, it delights. · sendbird.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Contact center AI platform. · observe.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCyble Cyble - World’s First Intelligence-Driven, AI-Native Security… · cyble.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCoLab Human and AI design review for hardware · colabsoftware.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI to engage employees, predict attrition and automate HR/IT support · infeedo.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAbacum The AI-native FP&A platform that helps Finance teams drive business… · abacum.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCNumeral The AI-native sales tax solution. · numeral.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCampfire The AI Native ERP for the fastest growing companies. · campfire.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Applied AI for The Emerging Economies · latentspace.sh | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFathom The most flexible AI meeting notetaker ever built. · fathom.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRDash AI Powered Construction Management Software · rdash.io | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Superb AI provides end-to-end computer vision MLOps platform · superb-ai.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCModel ML AI Workspace for Financial Services. · modelml.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRootly AI-native on-call and incident response carefully crafted to help… · rootly.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCHatch The AI CSR Platform · usehatch.ai | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCGoLinks Intuitive, easy-to-remember short links - powered by AI. · golinks.io | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCMotion The only work management platform for both Human and AI Employees · usemotion.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCConfido AI-enabled financial automation and intelligence for CPG Brands · confidotech.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCVerihubs AI-powered Deepfake Detection · verihubs.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Plug-and-play AI platform with sensors and dashboards that makes… · iotflows.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSwipe Super AI Accountant for SMBs · getswipe.in | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPopl Your AI GTM platform for In-Person Events · popl.co | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCBIK Agentic AI CRM for ecommerce · bik.ai | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCSpott AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms · spott.io | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVendr The AI negotiation agent to help you save money on SaaS. · vendr.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCLuminai Luminai is the AI platform for Health System Operations. · luminai.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCArintra Enterprise-grade AI for revenue assurance · arintra.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSoraban AI tax workflow platform for accounting firms · soraban.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAgency Agency replaces traditional security and compliance headcount with AI. · getagency.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Contract and negotiation AI built for lawyers · draftwise.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSully.ai Autonomous team of AI agents that runs the entire hospital operations · sully.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHumaans AI-Powered HRIS for high performing teams · humaans.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLago The AI Native Billing Platform · getlago.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCComplif Compliance tools & AI agents for financial companies · complif.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCVeriff AI-powered identity verification solution for fraud prevention. · veriff.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YChaddock AI agents to run restaurant operations · haddock.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAgave AI Financial Operations for Construction · useagave.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | AI-based full stack observability platform · middleware.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUnlayer AI-powered content creation infrastructure for apps · unlayer.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCPointOne AI Time Platform for Law Firms · pointone.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Track & Boost Your Brand’s Visibility in AI Search · writesonic.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | AI solution that streamlines candidate screening and recruitment · talentropy.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI talent platform to hire, manage, and grow your people · peoplebox.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCBeacons An AI-powered, all-in-one business platform for content creators · beacons.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI-powered user assistance platform · command.ai | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCOutset AI-powered user interviews · outset.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCDatafold Automating manual and repetitive data engineering tasks with AI · datafold.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCinder Infrastructure to protect companies from AI abuse · cinder.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | AI-powered customer service for startups · cloudhumans.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | AI-enabled automation of diagnostic radiology workflow and reporting. · synapsica.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAlex Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people. · alex.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTigerEye AI for Construction · tigereye.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCuracel AI-Powered Infrastructure for Insurance & Healthcare · curacel.co | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCTruewind AI-Powered Accounting · truewind.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | AI customer reputation & performance management for restaurant chains. · superorder.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Generative AI powered Shopify for home service professionals · toplinepro.com | still up |
How this compares
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
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.