You asked about Payroll
24 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 |
| 2012-01-01 | YCGusto Provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team · gusto.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCWorkpay Payroll, compliance, benefits, and Employer of Record services for… · myworkpay.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | remote.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCRuna Automating payroll for Latin America. · runahr.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 |
| 2019-06-01 | YCZeal Modern payroll for modern work · zeal.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMonet Payroll-backed loans and cash advances in Latam · monet.com.co | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCTrayd A construction payroll and compliance platform built for specialty… · buildtrayd.com | 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 |
| 2022-01-01 | Eazipay powers effortless payroll and financial access in Africa. · myeazipay.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCBolto AI Powered All-In-One Payroll, HR + Recruiting · bolto.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCKombo Unified API for HR, payroll and recruiting software · kombo.dev | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The Work Number for LatAm · burodeingresos.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Payroll app to pay workers daily for retailers & manufacturers in SEA · vuiapp.vn | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCThera AI-Native Finance OS · getthera.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCEvery Banking + Payroll/Benefits + Bookkeeping + Tax in one place · every.io | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCHammr Rippling for the Construction Industry · hammr.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Mobile first solution for Payroll, employee & expense management · salarybook.co.in | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCShor International payroll, built for founders · shorpay.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCmalibou the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for French SMBs · malibou.co | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | YCGrade API for performance-based payroll · usegrade.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.