You asked about Retail Tech
1,447 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | YCPodium Get more leads. Make more money. · podium.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | The SuperApp for neighbourhood merchants in Africa. · marketforce.io | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | AI-powered checkout for retail. · standard.ai | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCRADAR RADAR is building technology to completely transform the in-store… · goradar.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMeru.com The one-stop-shop for auto-parts in Mexico. · meru.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPositive B2B supplier of fresh/healthy packaged food · positive.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCtrii One stop investment solution for retail investors in Latam · trii.co | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | The operating system for restaurants in LatAm. · parrotsoftware.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAnfin A multi-asset trading platform dedicated to retail investors · anfin.vn | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSwiftSku Management and analytics software for convenience stores · swiftsku.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCEze The easiest way to track, buy, and sell your company’s tech — all in… · ezeit.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCVori Vori is a modern operating system for supermarkets · vori.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAtomic API that lets companies embed investment accounts into their services · atomicvest.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | One-click checkout and AI sales assistant for LatAm. · comprarapida.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Payroll app to pay workers daily for retailers & manufacturers in SEA · vuiapp.vn | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCUpgraded Upgraded helps retailers and carriers sell devices on subscription. · getupgraded.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Autonomous robots for retails. · taobotics.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSanté All-in-one POS for liquor stores · santehq.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Web-app | investment education and analysis tools for retail investors · stockunlock.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCMetreecs AI-powered demand forecasting for retail · metreecs.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCmatagora Empowering local retailers with tech that works for them. · matagora.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCAstor AI advisor for retail investors · astor.app | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAvocado AI-Native Restaurant POS · avocadopos.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCRastro The fastest way to launch product catalogs. · rastro.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Investing app for Muslims · amalinvest.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCWarpfy Building Shein of Home: tech-driven, design-mfr Home Lifestyle Brand · warpfy.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCGetcho The reliability platform for last-mile delivery · getcho.app | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCCradle B2B payments network in India · cradlefinance.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCWildcard AEO/GEO for E-Commerce and Retail · wild-card.ai | still up |
| 2009-06-01 | YCStripe Economic infrastructure for the internet. · stripe.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Online engineering college for India. Learn technical skills & get… · skill-lync.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCRazorpay India's only full-stack financial solutions company for businesses. · razorpay.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCWave Mobile money app for Africa · wave.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCAthelas Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems · athelas.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Every shift, Covered. · clipboardworks.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCFaire The global online platform empowering independent retail. · faire.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCClear Fintech SaaS platform for invoices, taxes, wealth management & credit. · clear.in | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | We’re building the world’s bank payment network. · gocardless.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 |
| 2012-06-01 | Unlocking the power of biotech with modern software for modern science · benchling.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHogaru Hogaru is a tech-enabled home services platform in Latin America. · hogaru.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCGuesty The management platform for the short term rental industry. · guesty.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCXendit Provides payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia · xendit.co | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCIronclad AI-powered contract management · ironcladapp.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCNabis Nabis is the largest licensed cannabis wholesale platform. · nabis.com | still up |
| 2022-11-23 | bugasura.io | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCLattice Modern people management platform. · lattice.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCH1 Connecting stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem. · h1.co | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCAspire All-in-one Finance OS for businesses · aspireapp.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Building the safety net of the future · pairteam.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLemFi Fair, simple and accessible financial services · lemfi.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Data driven neobank for SMBs in LATAM · kapital.mx | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCFAZZ All-in-one Finance for Every Southeast Asia Business · fazzfinancial.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.
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.