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59 people built something like it. 59 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-18 | dogbunnypuzzle.com | gone |
| 2022-01-13 | looptap.vasanthv.com | gone |
| 2022-03-01 | lessmilk.com | gone |
| 2022-10-14 | createtargetaudience.com | gone |
| 2023-07-11 | playlaser.xyz | gone |
| 2022-05-07 | battle-of-flags.com | gone |
| 2022-03-31 | weighoff.net | gone |
| 2022-03-04 | fastflood.dylancastillo.co | gone |
| 2022-04-05 | vcpuzzle.com | gone |
| 2022-01-12 | punksvsapes.com | gone |
| 2023-02-27 | projectgoobii.com | gone |
| 2022-04-07 | moviehunt.com | gone |
| 2022-02-23 | docs.hathora.dev | gone |
| 2022-01-26 | zk-treasure-hunt.glitch.me | gone |
| 2022-07-04 | dreambookgame.com | gone |
| 2022-02-01 | pixel.vkoskiv.com | gone |
| 2021-01-18 | gamejoyhq.com | gone |
| 2022-02-05 | nineletterwordgame.com | gone |
| 2022-02-21 | twentyletters.com | gone |
| 2021-11-22 | neet.vc | gone |
| 2023-09-18 | gron.games | gone |
| 2023-09-01 | got.ready2play.online | gone |
| 2022-11-20 | costerly.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCFello Grow money and win $1000 every week by saving and playing games · fello.in | gone |
| 2022-11-14 | 500letters.com | gone |
| 2021-01-30 | puzzlepanda.com | gone~22mo |
| 2021-03-17 | getmedes.com | gone |
| 2021-01-25 | jel.app | gone |
| 2022-12-11 | hanzi.gg | gone |
| 2023-08-06 | sillycovalley.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | Games For Education · taptolearn.com | gone |
| 2022-11-03 | wordtower.net | gone |
| 2022-10-19 | mathgrams.com | gone |
| 2022-03-25 | play.moonlightmuseum.io | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Multiverse is a web-based game creation system inspired by Dungeons &… · playmultiverse.com | gone |
| 2023-09-15 | slashsaber.com | gone |
| 2023-04-20 | chessgpt.atomic14.com | gone |
| 2021-09-01 | squiggly.school | gone |
| 2021-02-03 | meet.airconsole.com | gone~22mo |
| 2022-03-07 | secondlongestwordwins.com | gone |
| 2022-02-28 | letterjumble.com | gone |
| 2023-10-09 | tapsnake.com | gone |
| 2023-05-02 | numswap.com | gone |
| 2022-08-05 | pledu.co | gone |
| 2021-03-03 | chickenroll.fun | gone |
| 2021-01-27 | autotask.site | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCPlayAbly We build games to help brands engage, convert, and retain customers · playably.ai | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCGamelynx Easily watchable cross-platform competitive games. · gamelynx.gg | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMixr Team building through online game tournaments. · mixronline.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPensil New-Age White Label Community Platform SDKs and APIs for Games,… · pensil.in | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Play high-end PC games on your laptop by streaming them. · vectordash.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCEvo.Do QA Bots for Games · evo.do | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCDropleaf Subscription service for all you can play indie PC games. · dropleaf.io | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCZowPow Wireless toy game controllers for mobile games. · zowpow.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCMinefold Simple multiplayer game servers. · minefold.com | gone |
| 2010-06-01 | YCKoduco iPad games. · koduco.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCUnnyhog Video game development company.We are creating unique and… · unnyhog.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | We provide market data on the mobile games business to developers,… · thinkgaming.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | Jam.gg, play couch games online with friends · jam.gg | gone |
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.