You asked about Social
23 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 10% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 3 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | YCSpeak A superhuman, AI-powered language tutor in your pocket · speak.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCBeacons An AI-powered, all-in-one business platform for content creators · beacons.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YC222 the AI social facilitator for offline human to human interactions · 222.place | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCRamen VR Ramen VR is transforming game development with advanced XR + AI tools. · ramenvr.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | App that turns selfie photos into thousand emoji that look like you… · mirror-ai.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCMindbase Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans… · mymindbase.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCPrecious AI to curate your baby photos · preciousapp.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCWhip A social feed for interactive AI Creations · whip.run | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFriz AI Social Media Manager · usefriz.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCRemade AI-native canvas for creative workflows. · remade.ai | acquired |
| 2025-09-01 | YCDigipals The future of Social in the age of AI · digipals.app | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | Frontier AI Defenses for Social Engineering Attacks · beesafe.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCGrocalo AI brain for creators that runs their social content · grocalo.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | AI agents on real phones, growing brands across every platform. · tellif.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCDeep24 AI coach for your entire life · deep24.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | GenAI Interactive story. Creator write fictions 10x faster. · storioai.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | Character.AI with real time video avatars · dollyglot.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Remix any song into any style · soundry.ai | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCClear The unbiased AI and data layer for skin health. · getclearapp.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | The social network layer for AI apps · a1zap.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCEggnog Fun with AI video · eggnog.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLumona AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. · lumona.ai | gone |
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.