You asked about Chat
14 people built something like it. 14 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | YCOrchata Groceries delivered in 20 min in Latinamerica · orchata.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Message without interrupting what you're doing · hoverchat.com | gone |
| 2009-06-01 | FanChatter aggregates, amplifies and empowers fan content on every… · fanchatter.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCHum A chat program that integrates with email, with presence. · letshum.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCDuckly Video chat with real-time collaboration. · duckly.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPensil New-Age White Label Community Platform SDKs and APIs for Games,… · pensil.in | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCPolly Polly is a social polling app for Snapchat and Instagram stories. · polly.fun | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRume Video chat that doesn't feel like work · rume.video | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Social media management tool for Instagram and Snapchat · storyboard.com | gone |
| 2006-06-01 | YCJumpchat jumpchat.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCSpoil Spoil is gifting for the Snapchat generation. · spoil.co | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCAirPair Instant access to the world's best software experts via video chat… · airpair.com | gone |
| 2010-06-01 | Local chat. · messageparty.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRTCanary We are a monitoring and analytics plugin for all video chat platforms. · rtcanary.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.