You asked about E-Commerce
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Buy and grow profitable e-commerce companies selling on Amazon and DTC · moonshotbrands.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Largest B2B eCommerce platform for SMBs in Latin America. · boitas.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPerfekto Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam · perfekto.mx | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCQueenly Leading marketplace for formalwear · queenly.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Pinduoduo for India · gobillion.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCOneShop List on multiple resale marketplaces · oneshop.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Digital pharmacy for Latam, that saves you money and time. · fastfarma.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSpoken Never overpay online · spoken.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBlink Same-day delivery for e-commerce companies in Europe. · blinklastmile.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLalabox Live stream shopping for beauty products · lalabox.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDressd Make infinite $$$ off of clothes in your closet without selling them · dressd.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.