You asked about NLP
Nobody in the register described anything this way.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | YCShipamax Simple, end-to-end automation for logistics orgs · shipamax.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHomeRoom We Rent Your Property by the Room. You earn 50% more Rent. · livehomeroom.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | YCOnyx Open Source AI Chat · onyx.app | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | YCWit.ai Natural Language for Developers --Wit is an API that makes it easy… · wit.ai | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | YCKraftful Copilot for product teams · kraftful.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Business intelligence on text · hyperglue.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCScopeAI Automatically extract valuable insights from customer service… · getscopeai.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | Natural language processing APIs for developers. · plasticity.ai | 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.