You asked about AR
360 people built something like it. 360 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. Half of the gone ones were last seen within 19 months of launching.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-05 | nomdebebe.app | gone |
| 2021-09-07 | bonsaibrowser.com | gone |
| 2021-02-26 | hummingbard.com | gone |
| 2021-11-09 | stovetop.app | gone |
| 2023-03-31 | blog.coscreen.co | gone |
| 2022-04-28 | fintopea.com | gone |
| 2021-09-07 | xirva.org | gone |
| 2021-01-28 | stonks.news | gone |
| 2021-05-30 | paperd.ink | gone |
| 2022-06-14 | mysideproject.rocks | gone |
| 2021-04-25 | mark.show | gone |
| 2023-07-11 | playlaser.xyz | gone |
| 2022-05-11 | paperd.ink | gone |
| 2022-09-06 | simulator.tryshare.app | gone |
| 2022-01-09 | keyboard-drill.com | gone |
| 2023-04-12 | librarian-ai.com | gone |
| 2023-06-17 | postcardbot.com | gone |
| 2021-12-29 | walloftext.art | gone |
| 2023-02-26 | ichi.do | gone |
| 2023-09-19 | hydra.so | gone |
| 2023-04-11 | equalto.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | stonks.news | gone |
| 2021-01-09 | convier.me | gone~19mo |
| 2021-08-25 | webcrate.app | gone |
| 2022-02-11 | windi.app | gone |
| 2022-07-08 | shop.nootritious.com | gone |
| 2023-09-16 | louisquissetlabs.com | gone |
| 2021-02-05 | quikpub.co | gone~14mo |
| 2022-03-30 | calendar.sharats.me | gone |
| 2023-06-14 | app.scribbler.so | gone |
| 2023-07-17 | peeng.sh | gone |
| 2023-04-07 | signalprocessingjobs.com | gone |
| 2023-12-20 | forwarder-proxy.io | gone |
| 2023-01-04 | semanticvideosearch.com | gone |
| 2022-12-08 | hnpdf.com | gone |
| 2021-03-22 | reclist.me | gone |
| 2022-05-06 | recipehunt.app | gone |
| 2023-12-13 | noise.site | gone |
| 2022-01-07 | app.radar.chat | gone |
| 2022-07-24 | app.skillpress.io | gone |
| 2021-01-03 | organizedly.io | gone~4mo |
| 2021-05-16 | thingstwin.com | gone |
| 2021-05-03 | getmonito.com | gone |
| 2023-04-22 | dontbo.re | gone |
| 2022-03-21 | getsocialdomain.com | gone |
| 2022-03-13 | convey.earth | gone |
| 2022-12-22 | handlr.sapico.me | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | pastenow.me | gone |
| 2022-04-28 | gaclient.com | gone |
| 2022-08-21 | ideas.dynamate.io | gone |
| 2022-10-24 | sideprojects.fazier.com | gone |
| 2023-05-16 | neucards.com | gone |
| 2023-09-19 | arabic-numbers.koljapluemer.com | gone |
| 2021-07-31 | paperdelivery.co | gone |
| 2023-09-11 | loopy.fm | gone |
| 2021-02-27 | writer.math.dev | gone~13mo |
| 2021-06-09 | usegarnet.com | gone |
| 2021-09-03 | examples.jina.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-16 | starqueue.org | gone |
| 2021-10-11 | hellocaribou.com | gone |
How this compares
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.
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.