You asked about Cloud Computing
35 people built something like it. 35 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-01 | YCSixa Personal computer in the cloud · sixa.io | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | No-code data curation for LLM fine-tuning and evaluation. · airtrain.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTriplit The best database for app developers · triplit.dev | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCCakework API that adds cloud hosting to any developer platform · cakework.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | Instant sandboxed server environments · stackmachine.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Helping developers scale their applications with ease. · paralleluniverse.co | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCGoScale Dynamical Scaling Virtual Machines as a Service · goscale.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCCelest The Vercel of Flutter · celest.dev | gone |
| 2011-01-01 | .NET Cloud Platform as a Service · appharbor.com | gone |
| 2023-02-26 | ichi.do | gone |
| 2022-06-15 | autocloud.io | gone |
| 2021-06-30 | leapp.cloud | gone |
| 2021-04-01 | cfs.stokeo.com | gone |
| 2021-02-23 | singlepagecloud.com | gone~12mo |
| 2015-01-01 | The robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences. · transcriptic.com | gone |
| 2023-10-02 | multinode.dev | gone |
| 2022-07-02 | webreducer.dev | gone |
| 2021-08-08 | beta.rocketcompute.com | gone |
| 2023-04-18 | file.love | gone |
| 2022-01-20 | mapthe.cloud | gone |
| 2023-12-27 | docs.cloud.ploomber.io | gone |
| 2023-07-13 | microfeed.org | gone |
| 2021-05-10 | webassembly.cloud | gone |
| 2021-09-01 | cloudalarm.in | gone |
| 2022-05-29 | arraylist.org | gone |
| 2022-05-23 | hulse.app | gone |
| 2022-09-08 | lug.dev | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAtomized Enabling teams to deploy without needing a cloud expert · atomizedhq.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Bioinformatics pipelines in the cloud · flowdeploy.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCTensil We turn machine learning models into custom hardware. · tensil.ai | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Finder for the Cloud · collections.me | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | Software and hardware to run neural networks faster and cheaper · deepsilicon.net | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAuroraQ Building the first practical, integrated quantum computer. · auroraq.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | Client-side encryption for your devices and the cloud. · documents.me | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | Jam.gg, play couch games online with friends · jam.gg | 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.