You asked about SaaS
18 people built something like it. 4 are gone.
That is 33% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 6 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-01-01 | YCHeap Captures user interactions with no code to generate analytics. · heap.io | acquired |
| 2022-01-26 | hockeystack.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCGitPrime Visibility and analytics for software development leaders. · gitprime.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSwiftSku Management and analytics software for convenience stores · swiftsku.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSecoda Secoda is the AI layer for your Analytics · secoda.co | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCExplo Embedded Analytics and Data Sharing Platform · explo.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Automated QA for your Digital Analytics · trackingplan.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | In-store analytics AI assistant to fix your retail stores · auravision.ai | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCPomello Analytics software that helps companies measure organizational… · pomello.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCVizzly Customer-Facing Analytics for Modern SaaS. · vizzly.co | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Analytics, built for the trades. · usebluelight.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCMercator AI-assisted data analytics · mercator.tech | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | A/B testing for brick-and-mortar stores. · prayasanalytics.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Valor Water Analytics delivers a SaaS platform to utilities to detect… · valorwater.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Analytics for builders. Record and query billions of datapoints with… · scratchdata.com | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | YCBackType BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011 · backtype.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRTCanary We are a monitoring and analytics plugin for all video chat platforms. · rtcanary.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YC42 Analytics stack for omnichannel retailers and brands · 42technologies.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.