You asked about Apparel and Cosmetics
25 people built something like it. 25 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-01 | YCLe Tote Subscription service for women's apparel & accessories. · letote.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCQueenly Leading marketplace for formalwear · queenly.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSecured Tools for Sneaker, NFT & web3 investors · secured.community | gone |
| 2011-01-01 | YCInporia Fashion shopping email list. · inporia.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCLooklive Looklive is a community and marketplace for fashion. Users browse… · looklive.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Riya Collective is building the first community-driven global… · riyacollective.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFetchr The Personal Shopper in Your Pocket · fetchr.so | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCAPSULE Buy anything you find on social media · shopcapsule.ai | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCFREY FREY is a line of exceptional laundry and clothing care products.… · frey.com | gone |
| 2006-06-01 | YCShoutfit shoutfit.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCAdla Department store for e-commerce · tryadla.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Marketplace for Luxury Fashion Rentals. · stylelend.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | The Mercer Club is a subscription service that allows men to rent… · themercerclubnyc.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCGlio Amazon Marketplace for Latin America · glio.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | We're creating every women's fantasy by combining the unwanted… · 99dresses.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Fit to Form is a site where women shop for dresses based on their… · thefittoform.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCHush Hush is the top social commerce app in the United States. · shophush.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRestocks Buy sneakers and streetwear here · restocks.io | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | And Comfort is a direct to consumer fashion brand. · andcomfort.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCHauteDay Gaming Meets Women's Shopping. · hauteday.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPerShop Your personal clothing store! · pershop.app | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDressd Make infinite $$$ off of clothes in your closet without selling them · dressd.com | gone |
| 2022-11-17 | blnkfabrics.com | gone |
| 2022-01-17 | 3dify.me | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Expedia for ordering blank apparel · dgiapparel.com | gone |
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.