You asked about Auto Commerce
28 people built something like it. 28 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | YCBlink Same-day delivery for e-commerce companies in Europe. · blinklastmile.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Largest B2B eCommerce platform for SMBs in Latin America. · boitas.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Buy and grow profitable e-commerce companies selling on Amazon and DTC · moonshotbrands.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPerfekto Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam · perfekto.mx | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2021-07-13 | autodevtech.com | gone |
| 2021-01-27 | creart.innovrepublic.com | gone |
| 2021-07-13 | everlint.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCQueenly Leading marketplace for formalwear · queenly.com | gone |
| 2021-01-14 | control.verygoodsecurity.com | gone~4mo |
| 2021-06-01 | Pinduoduo for India · gobillion.co | gone |
| 2021-09-28 | aikido.finance | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCOneShop List on multiple resale marketplaces · oneshop.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2021-04-13 | pingmy.life | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Digital pharmacy for Latam, that saves you money and time. · fastfarma.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSpoken Never overpay online · spoken.io | gone |
| 2021-01-27 | autotask.site | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-21 | laravel-enlightn.com | gone~58mo |
| 2021-01-03 | segmentel.com | gone~4mo |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLalabox Live stream shopping for beauty products · lalabox.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBuzzle Automatic voice-of-customer trends & metrics from sales conversations. · buzzle.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPlatypus The Distributed Data Operating System · getplatypus.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCache Online convenience stores fulfilled by tiny, automated dark stores. · grabcache.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDressd Make infinite $$$ off of clothes in your closet without selling them · dressd.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.