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6 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 20% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 | YCWayUp Marketplace for employers to recruit college students and recent grads · wayup.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHiration We help job seekers quickly create resumes that get 2X more interviews · hiration.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCSorce Tinder for jobs · sorce.jobs | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Match job seekers to roles at deep technology startups. · bitstoatoms.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCTsenta AI career agent that finds matching jobs & applies on your behalf · tsenta.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | First agentic AI-powered community for 1 billion people with criminal… · commissary.club | 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.