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| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | YCAXDRAFT AXDRAFT helps corporations draft, negotiate and approve documents 10x… · axdraft.com | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | YCBonsai The all-in-one solution for small businesses and self-employed. · hellobonsai.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCLawyaw Automating document-based workflows · lawyaw.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | The Complete Listing Toolkit for the New Era of Real Estate · disclosures.io | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCWilling The best way to make your legal will. · willing.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCMulligan AI automation for insurance brokerages · insurestack.ai | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCUpLink Document Collection Software for Accountants, Auditors, and Lawyers · uplinkapp.io | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPactima Live video signing for real-time agreements · pactima.com | acquired |
| 2007-01-01 | YCZenter Zenter is the gmail of slides · googleblog.blogspot.com | acquired |
| 2010-01-01 | YCCrocodoc Embed PDFs, PowerPoints, and other documents into web and mobile apps · crocodoc.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.