You asked about Apparel and Cosmetics
26 people built something like it. 0 are gone.
That is 0% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-01 | Platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. · goatgroup.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Customizable beauty for hair, skin, and body care products. · functionofbeauty.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | Scentbird is a luxury fragrance subscription service. · scentbird.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCMBX A global multi-brand beauty and personal care startup. · us.memebox.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Modern ecommerce for petite women · shortstorybox.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Honeylove makes functional undergarments for women · honeylove.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCBinks A zero inventory, zero returns factory-to-consumer apparel company · getbinks.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Fashionable college, NBA and MLS apparel. · hypeandvice.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | Shoptiques.com lets you shop the world's best local boutiques online. · shoptiques.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCLynks Lynks is an e-commerce company that makes high demand products… · lynks.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSockSoho Building world's largest men fashion brand powered by technology · socksoho.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Hair care products for curly hair. · lusbrands.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCCurtsy Curtsy is a sustainable clothing resale app. · curtsyapp.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCMTailor Get measured by your phone in under 30 seconds for perfect fitting… · mtailor.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | Online Auctions for Authentic (Women's) Designer Goods · lollipuff.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCStyleUp StyleUp brings effortless joy to getting dressed with daily,… · thestyleup.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCMarkhor Markhor is a DTC company that works with craftsmen to make shoes and… · markhor.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCWANTD A direct to consumer marketplace and influencer network for brands · getwantd.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCRetrofit A vintage marketplace curated by AI · retrofit.shop | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCVastrm Mass customized active apparel. We are building a full turn key… · vastrm.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLygg Building New Anti-Aging Ingredients for Skincare · lyggcorp.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSoco Visual AI shopping · socosearch.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCFlip Community-driven marketplace for sneakers. · justflip.com | still up |
| 2022-03-06 | mockover.com | still up |
| 2022-11-05 | 1sewn.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | AI for Instantly Manufacturable Fashion · patternfast.com | still up |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
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.