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33 people built something like it. 33 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 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on… · robby.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCZoomer Outsourced, high volume food delivery.
· zoomerdelivery.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOrchata Groceries delivered in 20 min in Latinamerica · orchata.com | gone |
| 2021-07-31 | paperdelivery.co | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Autonomous homebuilding factory for the $1.7 trillion housing crisis. · rentthebackyard.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | We license brands for delivery and pick-up · purpleplate.co | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | The Rocket Network: Sustainable & On-Demand Delivery Anywhere in Space · spaceryde.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCByte On-demand food delivery from dark kitchens in Pakistan. · web.thebyte.app | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCDuffl 10-minute delivery service for college students. · duffl.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Driverless Trucks, for real. · starsky.io | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | An AI-powered digital grocer that delivers in under 60 mins. · farmsteadapp.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCOle Fashion shopping with delivery and return on demand · oleshop.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCShone Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit. · shone.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRacer 15-minute food delivery · racer.app | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | We’re creating programmable therapies · felixbt.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBlink Same-day delivery for e-commerce companies in Europe. · blinklastmile.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI for drug formulation · lavo.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMembo Groceries fresher than a farmer’s market, delivered to you (EU) · membo.ee | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCAirmada Autonomous ground stations for drones · airmada.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCViaopt Uber pool for corporate trucking fleets · viaopt.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCEnvyl Envyl enables a fast, reliable and cost effective peer to peer… · envyl.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCSimmer We do reviews for dishes. Our app helps users find the very best… · usesimmer.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | YCSwapbox Stop missing deliveries. Ship to Swapbox and pick up at our kiosks. · swapbox.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCBensen Online and phone ordering for restaurant takeout and delivery · bensen.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCache Online convenience stores fulfilled by tiny, automated dark stores. · grabcache.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCSycamore Marketplace for companies to add a delivery driver in 5 minutes. · mysycamore.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTaste Online marketplace for dinners shipped from great restaurants · gettaste.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | Accelerating protein engineering. · trident.bio | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHideout A portfolio of delivery-only restaurant brands · findhideout.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.