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Nobody in the register described anything this way.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | Digital Sales Rooms (Acquired by MindTickle) · enableus.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTaoFi The financial layer for decentralized AI · taofi.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTarsal Data pipeline for your security data lake. · tarsal.co | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Supercharge your mobile apps · emergetools.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Helping food brands and retailers reduce food wastage · fountain9.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMable First personalized migraine clinic using genetics and telehealth. · trymable.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTelivy Automate your cyber security risk assessments · telivy.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCKeyri Secure fraud prevention and authentication platform for developers · keyri.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Business intelligence on text · hyperglue.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSleek Browser automation for businesses. · onsleek.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCStacksi Automated Answers to Security Questionnaires · stacksi.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCVogent Build Voice AI Agents · vogent.ai | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBytebot Bytebot is the open source container for AI desktop agents. · bytebot.ai | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | The network where sales teams connect to share customer introductions. · partnered.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMentum AI-Powered Assistant for Procurement and Strategic Sourcing · getmentum.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.