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20 people built something like it. 4 are gone.
That is 27% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 5 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | YCGitPrime Visibility and analytics for software development leaders. · gitprime.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCVoker The Agent Analytics Platform · voker.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHaystack Delivery Analytics for Software Teams · usehaystack.io | still up |
| 2008-06-01 | YCCO2Stats Social and environmental web analytics. Acquired in December 2016. · co2stats.com | gone |
| 2022-10-20 | playerzero.app | unverified |
| 2022-02-17 | june.so | still up |
| 2022-02-10 | kraftful.com | still up |
| 2022-05-19 | objectiv.io | unverified |
| 2013-01-01 | YCScuba Analytics for impatient people. · scuba.io | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSecoda Secoda is the AI layer for your Analytics · secoda.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Automated QA for your Digital Analytics · trackingplan.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSarus Use personal data for analytics and ML, safely and seamlessly · sarus.tech | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAvo Fixing data quality in product analytics. · avo.app | still up |
| 2021-04-14 | analyticsverse.com | still up |
| 2023-04-19 | mitzu.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCJune June is the new way to do product analytics · june.so | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHydra Serverless Analytics on Postgres · hydra.so | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCWhaly Whaly is building a self-service analytics platform · whaly.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Confidently ship analytics code faster with fewer errors · ilumadata.io | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCQuary The first in-browser analytics engineering platform · quary.dev | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | YCBackType BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011 · backtype.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | Analytics to improve how teams work and collaborate · worklytics.co | 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.