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136 people built something like it. 136 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-06 | wunderbucket.io | gone |
| 2021-01-20 | sundayy.app | gone~28mo |
| 2022-04-15 | finity.polygon.technology | gone |
| 2022-06-04 | figmatemplates.net | gone |
| 2022-05-29 | designmind.io | gone |
| 2022-05-27 | oura.gucci.com | gone |
| 2022-04-12 | kcaps.app | gone |
| 2021-12-06 | postdrc.com | gone |
| 2021-06-03 | assetroulette.com | gone |
| 2007-06-01 | YCEivod eivod.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Students… · makeschool.com | gone |
| 2021-03-29 | launchdisco.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCUniverse Design and build any kind of website. On your iPhone or iPad. · onuniverse.com | gone |
| 2021-11-11 | sw.ink | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Social Construct designs and assembles large apartment buildings
… · socialconstructco.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPathmind Pathmind helps industrial engineers and simulation modelers achieve… · pathmind.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Interior design marketplace and online retailer · tastemaker.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCSixa Personal computer in the cloud · sixa.io | gone |
| 2021-05-21 | proficience.io | gone |
| 2008-01-01 | YCTrigger Better PhoneGap. · trigger.io | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | We speed up Excel. · datanitro.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | AI.Fashion is the AI creative suite for the fashion industry. · ai.fashion | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCLetter Beautifully designed banking for high net-worth individuals. · letter.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCIvella Banking and savings products designed for couples · ivella.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Never code alone. · squire.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCOzone Figma for video · ozone.pro | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPloomber Heroku for AI · ploomber.io | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | We generate synthetic data for computer vision models. · zumolabs.ai | gone |
| 2022-11-09 | onegen.io | gone |
| 2023-11-13 | demo.storywhisper.xyz | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCXkit Universal CRM integration for B2B SaaS apps · xkit.co | gone |
| 2023-09-23 | basketballdesigner.com | gone |
| 2023-03-09 | homepage.gallery | gone |
| 2023-03-30 | atomix.design | gone |
| 2023-04-20 | designducky.ai | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | GitHub for visual data · labelflow.ai | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLynx AI platform for investigating and resolving engineering incidents · uselynx.ai | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCUnflow The next generation CMS built for mobile apps · unflow.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCEnveloop Design and send messages from your app with a simple API. · enveloop.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCParade Launch your company without hiring a designer · getparade.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCQueue All-in-one platform for agencies to launch and grow · usequeue.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCDuckly Video chat with real-time collaboration. · duckly.com | gone |
| 2026-08-19 | openmock.app | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Synthetic data for better vision. · sbxrobotics.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCClay Figma for 3D design · clay3d.io | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | The publishing layer for the agentic internet · structuredlabs.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCPagedraw Pagedraw is a platform for productionizing designs into code. Thanks… · pagedraw.io | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPelm Plaid for utilities · pelm.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCVessel Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools · vessel.dev | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Eve is our way of bringing the power of computation to everyone, not… · kodowa.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | lightwell.pro | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPensil New-Age White Label Community Platform SDKs and APIs for Games,… · pensil.in | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | Aide is an AI-native , privacy-first IDE built on top of VSCode · aide.dev | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCSixty On demand web app help · usesixty.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCcamfer Building the world’s first AI mechanical engineer. · camfer.dev | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCFloydHub ML Platform for developing, training and deploying ML models · floydhub.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCTusk AI agent that generates unit and integration tests · usetusk.ai | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCContrast Developer Handoff - Reimagined for Storybook · mismatch.app | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Turn any website into an API · dashblock.com | 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.