You asked about Compliance
Nobody in the register described anything this way.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-01 | YCRegology AI Agents for Regulatory Compliance · regology.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | YCEnzyme Automating regulatory approval & compliance for life science companies · enzyme.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAscen EOR for the staffing industry · ascen.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | Helping 100+ brands bring all quality and compliance operations… · factoredquality.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAer Compound compliance: the central hub for meeting SEC obligations · aercompliance.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSarus Use personal data for analytics and ML, safely and seamlessly · sarus.tech | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCCentral Payroll, benefits, state compliance & other bullsh*t for startups · centralhq.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCStriga Compliant Crypto and Banking Infrastructure · striga.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCStacksi Automated Answers to Security Questionnaires · stacksi.com | acquired |
| 2014-06-01 | YCPayable Simple payments and tax compliance for your contract workforce. · payable.com | acquired |
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.