You asked about Entertainment
7 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 17% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-01 | Pay what you want for awesome games and other content while giving to… · humble.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | AI games and entertainment on TV · weekend.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Platform that allows anyone to create and monetize video games. · dreamcraft.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Building Communities Through Play · startplayinggames.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRedbean Make games and stories with AI · redbean.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCGlade Build games at the speed of thought · gladestudio.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCUnnyhog Video game development company.We are creating unique and… · unnyhog.com | 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.