You asked about Recruiting
71 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-01 | A flexible work app that connects businesses with hourly workers. · instawork.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | Change the world to value skills over pedigree · hackerrank.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCFountain High volume hiring made simple · fountain.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCPave Plan, communicate, and benchmark your compensation in real-time. · pave.com | still up |
| 2022-06-15 | bazait.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAwesomic Get matched with top 1% of talents in 24h · awesomic.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | We help US tech companies hire and manage software engineers in LATAM · howdy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Indonesia's #1 ATS & Job Portal to match top talents & companies · dealls.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAccioJob Offline-first tech skilling and placement for India · acciojob.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAshby All-in-one recruiting platform that empowers hiring excellence in… · ashbyhq.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCHENRY We train AI engineers and connect them with companies. · soyhenry.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Learning platform for job seekers with job applications automation · careerist.cc | 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 |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVahan AI recruiter for India's massive blue-collar workforce · vahan.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCPowerUs LinkedIn for skilled blue-collar workers · powerus.de | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Workforce platform to recruit, license, credential & manage clinicians · directshifts.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJuicebox AI Agents for Recruiting · juicebox.ai | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCSpott AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms · spott.io | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLanded Generative AI for frontline worker hiring · gotlanded.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFlo The talent platform for legal · joinflo.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCEmi Labs Helping great teams hire better frontline workers, faster. · emilabs.ai | still up |
| 2021-09-07 | gethigher.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCWeekday AI recruiter that runs outbound sourcing campaigns to find top talent · weekday.works | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI talent platform to hire, manage, and grow your people · peoplebox.ai | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | YCMixRank Data products for sales, marketing, finance, recruiting, and more. · mixrank.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 | YCExtern Professional Experience Anytime, Anywhere. · extern.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAlex Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people. · alex.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | A talent acquisition software built for data-driven recruiting teams. · hiresweet.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHiration We help job seekers quickly create resumes that get 2X more interviews · hiration.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCKombo Unified API for HR, payroll and recruiting software · kombo.dev | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | AI hiring platform powered by expert recruiters · contrario.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCBolto AI Powered All-In-One Payroll, HR + Recruiting · bolto.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Education, Employment, Loyalty verification. Global & Compliant. · reclaimprotocol.org | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | ModernLoop helps teams automate and streamline recruiting operations · modernloop.io | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCDover Your startup's all-in-one recruiting solution · dover.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCEdyst Edyst is a peer-to-peer online learning platform where students learn… · edyst.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCManara Connecting top Middle East talent to global tech jobs · manara.tech | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | The digital storefront for staffing and recruiting teams. · candidately.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSerra Your 24/7 AI Recruiter · serra.io | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We make engineering interviewing look more like real work. · hatchways.io | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCFiber AI The freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products · fiber.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We help top engineers from emerging markets get jobs abroad at… · outtalent.com | still up |
| 2010-06-01 | The retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow · recurse.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCSorce Tinder for jobs · sorce.jobs | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCrew Next Gen ATS/CRM for Modern Recruitment Agencies · crew.work | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Information Security (Cyber Security), Compliance and Privacy (GDPR &… · stealthworker.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAdni The career network for healthcare workers · adni.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSimplify Helping a billion people build their dream career · simplify.jobs | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPyxai An assessment tool that evaluates people to predict future success · pyxai.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCPluto LinkedIn for agents · talentpluto.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YC10 By 10 10by10 is a unique marketplace in the recruiting agency industry for… · 10by10.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAirwork On-demand labour that's actually good · airworkhq.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | The AI-native Recruiting OS · perfectly.so | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCElip AI Cooking something sweet and salty! · tryelip.ai | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | Turn Your Taste Into Hires · lantern.md | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHirebolt AI engineering capacity. Made simple. ⚡️ · hirebolt.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCLitmus Evals for humans · litmushiring.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCOutship Hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI · outship.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.
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.