You asked about Electric Vehicles
Nobody in the register described anything this way.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-01 | YCBoosted Simple, fun, and fast electric vehicles. · boostedboards.com | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | YCCruise Self-driving cars. · getcruise.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | Long range, battery electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. · talyn.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Electricity price forecasts for energy storage, ev charging, etc. · inbalanceresearch.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YClvl5 HD maps for self-driving cars. · lvl5.ai | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | Advancing surgical precision through safe electrical stimulation. · allotropemed.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.