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| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | YCFern Instantly offer SDKs and API Docs · buildwithfern.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLangfuse Open source LLM engineering platform · langfuse.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | The open source, fullstack monitoring platform: stop guessing why… · highlight.io | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCKeep The open-source AIOps platform · keephq.dev | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | Open source GenAI development platform · flowiseai.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLume Speed up customer implementation with AI · lume.ai | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | The interface for your database · outerbase.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | Web, Desktop, and Mobile apps with one codebase in Rust · dioxuslabs.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCCardinal Your AI product backlog · cardinalapp.io | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCTremor The UI toolkit for Dashboards · tremor.so | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCOpenPipe Turn expensive prompts into cheap fine-tuned models · openpipe.ai | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCDashdive Break down AI and cloud costs by feature and customer · dashdive.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCInari Your junior AI product manager · useinari.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCContinue Pioneering open-source coding agent · continue.dev | acquired |
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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.