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23 people built something like it. 23 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 | Plaid for Southeast Asia · finantier.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTAG TAG is the First Digital Bank (Chime/Revolut/N26) for Pakistan · tagme.pk | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCMultis Accounting & Treasury Management Software for Web3 Teams · multis.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | directmatchx.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | Bitcoin Marketplace · buttercoin.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCParker Parker is a digital bank. · getparker.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCLetter Beautifully designed banking for high net-worth individuals. · letter.co | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Accelerating the shift to a more transparent economy · purposefinance.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCEmigre Banking in India for Indian expats (NRIs) · emigre.us | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCBen The easiest way to learn about, buy, and store cryptocurrency. · ben.co | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCSerica Financial payment and loan services for the Medical Cannabis and… · sericapay.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheddar The Best Mobile Checking Account · cheddar.io | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCLendsnap The Digital Mortgage Company. · openfpga.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSeis Banking 100% in Spanish for the 44 million US Spanish speakers · seis.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCValiu USD mobile banking for LatAm's businesses and people · valiu.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCIvella Banking and savings products designed for couples · ivella.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | The NFT exchange for traders · nftscoring.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | Card issuer for Africa · bridgecard.cards | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCValari Embedded finance platform for LatAm. · valari.co | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCTrade We're building Africa's Commodity Exchange. · tradeghana.co | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | We deliver affordable renewable energy direct to customers and are… · getgex.com | gone |
| 2007-06-01 | SocialPicks was a platform where stock investors could exchange… · socialpicks.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAlma Gamified mobile banking app where people can win $1M every Wednesday · myalmafi.com | 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.