You asked about DevOps
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-01 | YCShuttle Build Backends. Fast. · shuttle.dev | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | A self-healing platform to enrich and fix server alerts automatically · neptune.io | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | Data Quality & Playback Platform · streamdal.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLynx AI platform for investigating and resolving engineering incidents · uselynx.ai | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCReploy Instant, shareable staging environments · getreploy.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAtomized Enabling teams to deploy without needing a cloud expert · atomizedhq.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCInvaria The next generation logging and observability platform · invaria.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 |
| 2026-01-01 | YCMendral AI DevOps Engineer · mendral.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCNextop Nextop optimizes the path between your app and backend. Client… · nextop.io | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | Resolve PR check failures instantly with AI · technician.dev | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCScout Dead simple CI/CD for ML teams · scout.ml | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | Sysadmin as a service. We make deploying, configuring, monitoring,… · solidstage.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.