You asked about Culture
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone · inevitabletech.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Tech enabled and fully integrated PAN India agri produce supply chain · kisannetwork.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCMilkRun Get Food From Farmers, Delivered. · localmilkrun.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCOvipost Automated insect farming · ovipost.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | A brand-new blend of sugars – made from plant fiber! · supplant.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | boostbiomes.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Real time Google Earth for agriculture -- imagery collected weekly… · terravion.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCTrade We're building Africa's Commodity Exchange. · tradeghana.co | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | We enable cheaper, faster, and better genetic engineering of plants.… · taxa.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCCowlar Fitbit for dairy cows. Farms use cowlar's alerts & recommendations to… · cowlar.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCEdyn Nest for lawn and garden · edyn.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSyncro Intelligence layer for internal communications and culture · runsyncro.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | We're making it easier to do sustainable farming. · modularscience.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.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.