You asked about HR Tech
1,524 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | The 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. · humaninterest.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCLattice Modern people management platform. · lattice.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Transforming cities and rural areas through AV transit and technology · maymobility.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Global platform for employee engagement with rewards&flexible benefits · advantageclub.co | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCFountain High volume hiring made simple · fountain.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Modern employee benefits & health savings account (HSA) provider · livelyme.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOntop Simplifying hiring and payments for the global workforce · getontop.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCPave Plan, communicate, and benchmark your compensation in real-time. · pave.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI to engage employees, predict attrition and automate HR/IT support · infeedo.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCGigs The OS for Embedded Telecom · gigs.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Indonesia's #1 ATS & Job Portal to match top talents & companies · dealls.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCPlatzi Turning company knowledge into expert teams · platzi.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCHireArt Gives businesses everything needed to hire & manage W2 contractors. · hireart.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCpeopleCQ Employer backed payroll advances for employees in Egypt · peoplecq.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCWarp AI-native Employee Management Platform for High-Growth Companies · warp.co | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | The Smart Market for Institutional Investors · onechronos.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCFinch Finch is the Employment Data Platform · tryfinch.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJuicebox AI-powered talent sourcing for recruiters · juicebox.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCOsmind Platform for breakthrough mental health research and treatment · osmind.org | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVitau Subscription pharmacy for patients with chronic diseases in LatAm. · vitau.mx | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCSpott AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms · spott.io | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | RNA medicines for liver diseases · ochre-bio.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPayflow A mobile app. It allows employees to get paid their salary on-demand. · payflow.es | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFlo The talent platform for legal · joinflo.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCBenepass Fintech for corporate compensation · getbenepass.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI talent platform to hire, manage, and grow your people · peoplebox.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | AI solution that streamlines candidate screening and recruitment · talentropy.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCompUp Building a compensation graph to help companies optimise people spend · compup.io | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAlex Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people. · alex.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHumanly We empower the world’s hiring teams to grow engaged, high-performing… · humanly.io | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPlane #1 easiest-to-use payroll for startups · plane.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCercli AI powered HR and Recruitment for people teams · cercli.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | A talent acquisition software built for data-driven recruiting teams. · hiresweet.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMindFi Transforming Mental Health for Corporate Asia · mindfi.co | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCPsylaris Psychotherapy through autonomous and personalized VR-sessions. · psylaris.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCBolto AI Powered All-In-One Payroll, HR + Recruiting · bolto.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCNestor Skills-based talent management solutions for a dynamic workforce. · nestorup.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | ModernLoop helps teams automate and streamline recruiting operations · modernloop.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBrite Software that helps employees pick their employee benefits. · britebenefits.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStafBook Rippling for Southeast Asia · stafbook.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHappl Your personalised benefits and engagement platform for global teams · happl.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCDisclo Health disclosure and accommodation management platform · disclo.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCYouShift The OS for hospital workforce management · you-shift.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCafé Your Workplace Engagement Hub · at.cafe | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCHammr Rippling for the Construction Industry · hammr.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Protecting your employees against online harassment · tallpoppy.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | The digital storefront for staffing and recruiting teams. · candidately.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCYotta Save money and win prizes up to $10m through weekly number draws. · withyotta.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSerra Your 24/7 AI Recruiter · serra.io | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | We design and manufacture energy efficient LED lighting fixtures for… · thriveagritech.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFlexDesk AI Agents for corporate real estate teams · flexdesk.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We make engineering interviewing look more like real work. · hatchways.io | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCAsteroid The integration layer for healthcare: EHRs, payer portals & more · asteroid.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | We're training the next generation of protein foundation models. · anthrogen.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | tEQuitable's mission is to create work culture that works for everyone · tequitable.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCSymphony Voice AI sims for next-gen employee training · getsymphony.co | 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.