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| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-01 | YCTigerEye AI for Construction · tigereye.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAlterya Protecting Humans from Scams · alterya.dev | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Open-Source Postman alternative · requestly.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCQuan End-to-end platform to improve wellbeing and team performance. · quanwellbeing.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCTola The simple, fast and free tool for businesses to pay and get paid · tolahq.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTranch Tranch is the invoice to payments platform for enterprises. · tranch.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCProper Reconciliation and financial operations platform · properfinance.io | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHOAi AI agent for community management · hoai.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUnsaddl education benefits and leave of absence management · unsaddl.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | A platform to collect and analyze in-product user feedback · blitzllama.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCUpLink Document Collection Software for Accountants, Auditors, and Lawyers · uplinkapp.io | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCVizzly Customer-Facing Analytics for Modern SaaS. · vizzly.co | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHyperDX Open-source, dev-friendly observability. · hyperdx.io | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCNeosync Neosync is an open-source anonymization and synthetic data platform. · neosync.dev | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBracket Two-way syncs between business tools and your database · usebracket.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Multi-chain token data platform · simplehash.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.