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| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-01 | YCTechmate A technology concierge for your home. We provide on-demand support… · techmate.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | AI support agent for your business that actually works · percept.ai | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCNara Answer 70% of your support and sales questions. Instantly · trynara.com | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | YCWeave Customer communication and payments platform. · getweave.com | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | YCSegment Software and APIs to collect, clean, and control customer data. · segment.com | acquired |
| 2011-01-01 | Customer loyalty and payments platform for small businesses. · fivestars.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCSoomgo Local services marketplace that connects providers with new customers · soomgo.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCWorkRamp The All-in-One Learning Platform · workramp.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSafeBase Trust Center platform that scales customer security reviews · safebase.io | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | Next Caller creates a positive customer experience through real-time… · nextcaller.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCJoe We let customers "Buy Now Pay Later" on any store in Europe. · joe-app.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | YCNatero Data-driven customer success platform for B2B SaaS. · natero.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCBrevy Empower your customer service team through AI & automation. · brevy.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | Predict job applicant performance for entry-level support roles · loopsupport.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCCohere Support automation that's actually intelligent · cohere.io | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHilos Close and activate your customers on WhatsApp · hilos.io | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLume Speed up customer implementation with AI · lume.ai | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLaudable App for B2B companies to find customer stories and advocates · laudable.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCOmni Fast, up-to-date answers for Sales & Support · addomni.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCScopeAI Automatically extract valuable insights from customer service… · getscopeai.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCVizzly Customer-Facing Analytics for Modern SaaS. · vizzly.co | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSameplan Customer-facing plans for sales teams and their prospects. · sameplan.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCDashdive Break down AI and cloud costs by feature and customer · dashdive.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | The network where sales teams connect to share customer introductions. · partnered.com | acquired |
| 2011-01-01 | YCTalkBin Consumer to business messaging. · talkbin.com | acquired |
How this compares
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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.