You asked about SaaS
17 people built something like it. 4 are gone.
That is 36% 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 |
| 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 |
| 2015-06-01 | A/B testing for brick-and-mortar stores. · prayasanalytics.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCMercator AI-assisted data analytics · mercator.tech | 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 |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRTCanary We are a monitoring and analytics plugin for all video chat platforms. · rtcanary.com | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | YCBackType BackType was an analytics company acquired by Twitter in 2011 · backtype.com | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | YC42 Analytics stack for omnichannel retailers and brands · 42technologies.com | 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.