You asked about Augmented Reality
20 people built something like it. 20 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-01 | YCScope AR Scope AR is the leading provider of User Guided Augmented Reality… · scopear.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Wordpress for AR & VR · sketchbox3d.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCSunu Audio and Haptics AR interface equipping blind users with super powers · sunu.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCMeta Augmented reality glasses. · metavision.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | Social avatar platform for VTubers · hyper.online | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Premium immersive cinematic VR entertainment for captive audiences · skylights.aero | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCDabble A synthetic photo studio for e-commerce · dabble.so | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Augmented Reality mobile app to try and buy tattoos · inkhunter.tattoo | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | Augmented reality through projectors · vizeralabs.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCIxora We create the digital outdoor environment for a movie. · ixora.org | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | The simplest way to test, manage, and deploy VR/AR apps at scale. · constructvr.io | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Disney meets Airbnb Experiences · adventurous.co | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCZigfu Layer above Kinect. · breaks.nu | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPengram Indoor navigation through augmented reality on your phone. · pengramar.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCmiru Experience any piece of furniture in AR · miruhome.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRTCanary We are a monitoring and analytics plugin for all video chat platforms. · rtcanary.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | DoF provides a high quality, affordable higher education alternative. · degreesoffreedom.org | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | API for Retrieval Augmented Generation · superpowered.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLifecast Software to create 3D video for VR, robotics and film. · lifecastvr.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCMoFE Next generation Disney. · mofe.co | gone |
How this compares
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.