You asked about Generative AI
3,166 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-01 | YCLeena AI We at Leena AI build a virtual assistant that answers employee's… · leena.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLegora The agentic operating system for legal work · legora.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHumand All-in-one app for internal communication and HR · humand.co | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Jasper is a leader in creating content using Artificial Intelligence · jasper.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI to engage employees, predict attrition and automate HR/IT support · infeedo.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPibit.ai The fastest path from submission to better decisions. · pibit.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Power commerce photography with generative AI · photoroom.com | still up |
| 2023-06-27 | flux.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTavus Building the human layer of AI · tavus.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJuicebox AI Agents for Recruiting · juicebox.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCGovDash AI platform to win and run government contracts · govdash.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Contract and negotiation AI built for lawyers · draftwise.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLanded Generative AI for frontline worker hiring · gotlanded.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCVetRec AI Scribe for veterinarians. Saving time and improving patient care. · vetrec.io | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSalient AI Servicing for Auto Lenders · trysalient.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Orangewood builds amazing robots that people want. · orangewood.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Track & Boost Your Brand’s Visibility in AI Search · writesonic.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLanceDB Open-source, serverless vectordb for production-scale generative AI · lancedb.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCMixerBox AI Super-Apps to Live Easier | The anything anytime superapps… · mixerbox.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Making Anime Real · spellbrush.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCTruewind AI-Powered Accounting · truewind.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | DreamWorld is a next-gen Minecraft with generative AI building · playdreamworld.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Operating System for Private Market Investors · vectorshift.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Virtualizing brick-mortar infrastructures of clinics w/ generative AI · ankr.us | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Generative AI powered Shopify for home service professionals · toplinepro.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The most magical personal Voice-Led AI English Learning Buddy for Kids · sparkstudio.co | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCD-ID Enable creators and developers to generate realistic AI personas · d-id.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCClueso Create beautiful videos & docs for any product or process in minutes · clueso.io | still up |
| 2023-03-08 | forethought.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The fastest way to ship airtight AI · openlayer.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCkapa.ai The fastest way to build AI assistants on technical content · kapa.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDatrics Generative AI Healthcare Coding Automation · datrics.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCOpen Enterprise AI customer support · open.cx | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCLemonBox AI-generated personalized nutrition solutions, built for you daily. · lemonbox.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFloworks Hire the best AI Sales employees | AI SDR | AI RevOps | AI EA · floworks.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCVector Advertising for the new internet · vector.co | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCHenry Automating Deal Decks for Commercial Real Estate Brokers · henry.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCSaturn Compliance and back office workflows for Wealth Managers. · saturnos.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCFlint Personalized learning built for schools · flintk12.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZOKO Better Business on WhatsApp · zoko.io | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCAccend AI agents for commercial underwriting at banks and fintechs · withaccend.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Automate security and privacy reviews · clearly-ai.com | still up |
| 2023-01-29 | dystr.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Automated SEO for Startups · rankscience.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCScispot The Best Data Infrastructure for Biotechs · scispot.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCoLoop AI Copilot for insights & strategy · coloop.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSyncly Social listening for the video era · syncly.app | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI-native Operating System for Enterprise Ecommerce Companies · hypotenuse.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Affogato AI — Your Agent for instant TikToks, Reels, and ads. · affogato.ai | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Database for AI · activeloop.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCUsul AI Platform for Winning Defense & Government Contracts · usul.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCarnata AI workers for the logistics industry. · arnata.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI SDET for mobile apps · mobileboost.io | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Agents For RFP and Questionnaire Response Automation · inventive.ai | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCCalltree Enterprise-grade AI support reps for call centers · calltree.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCFini Fini | Automate 80% of enterprise support with AI agents · usefini.com | still up |
| 2023-04-08 | aiproduct.tools | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | The Control Plane for Enterprise Agents · credal.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Liability insurance for generative AI and AI Agents · armilla.ai | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCTara AI Meet Tara AI, your new engineering efficiency co-pilot. · tara.ai | 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.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
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.