You asked about Creator Economy
11 people built something like it. 11 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | YCBeek Leading audio subscription platform for Spanish content and creators · beek.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCWabi We are Shopify for the $15B creator economy in LATAM · wabi.build | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Marketplace enabling social commerce for brands and content creators. · globalbelly.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCFlowbo Pipe for online businesses · flowbo.co | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFigments Building worlds at technological inflection points · plotdrive.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Virtual events for remote teams · miniexhibitions.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | Foundation Model for Human Attention · creatorml.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Accelerating the shift to a more transparent economy · purposefinance.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Video publishing and monetization platform for creators and artists · gigs.live | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | A video subscription platform serving black viewers and creators. · blackoak.tv | 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.