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21 people built something like it. 3 are gone.
That is 17% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 3 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-01 | YCFountain High volume hiring made simple · fountain.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOntop Simplifying hiring and payments for the global workforce · getontop.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Indonesia's #1 ATS & Job Portal to match top talents & companies · dealls.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | Intelligent technical hiring. · triplebyte.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCForage Online job simulations for companies to train, and then hire, students · theforage.com | acquired |
| 2025-01-01 | YCSpott AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms · spott.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | AI solution that streamlines candidate screening and recruitment · talentropy.ai | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | YCMixRank Data products for sales, marketing, finance, recruiting, and more. · mixrank.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAlex Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people. · alex.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCercli AI powered HR and Recruitment for people teams · cercli.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCNimble Data-driven teacher hiring · hirenimble.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHiration We help job seekers quickly create resumes that get 2X more interviews · hiration.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | AI hiring platform powered by expert recruiters · contrario.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLumina AI+human powered automation on job-community platform with 1.5M… · lumibot.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | The digital storefront for staffing and recruiting teams. · candidately.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | TANGObuilder automates structural engineers jobs. · tangobuilder.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCFiber AI The freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products · fiber.ai | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Predict job applicant performance for entry-level support roles · loopsupport.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCParade Launch your company without hiring a designer · getparade.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Your personal hiring page. · talentdrop.com | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | YCOvlo Founder led hiring for London startups · ovlo.ai | 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.