You asked about Engineering, Product and Design
7 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 29% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCMergent Incredibly reliable background task queues and cron jobs · mergent.co | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCParade Launch your company without hiring a designer · getparade.com | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCMixRank Data products for sales, marketing, finance, recruiting, and more. · mixrank.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | ModernLoop helps teams automate and streamline recruiting operations · modernloop.io | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCFiber AI The freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products · fiber.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We teach UX/UI design and then help people get great jobs. · avocademy.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCEdlyft Helps enterprises train college CS students on essential job skills · edlyft.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.