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38 people built something like it. 38 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 | Never code alone. · squire.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Synthetic data for better vision. · sbxrobotics.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCClay Figma for 3D design · clay3d.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPensil New-Age White Label Community Platform SDKs and APIs for Games,… · pensil.in | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCodeball AI-Powered Code Review · codeball.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBuzzle Automatic voice-of-customer trends & metrics from sales conversations. · buzzle.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Observability for Data Engineering Teams · lariatdata.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTriplit The best database for app developers · triplit.dev | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFable The command center for product teams · tryfable.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLunatic Operating System for server-side apps · lunatic.solutions | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCDime Instant E2E tests for your website · dime.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Delightful components for iOS. · movingparts.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCIvella Banking and savings products designed for couples · ivella.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Create + share amazing product GIFs in minutes ⚡️ · kindamagical.com | gone |
| 2021-01-20 | sundayy.app | gone~28mo |
| 2021-12-06 | postdrc.com | gone |
| 2021-06-03 | assetroulette.com | gone |
| 2021-03-29 | launchdisco.com | gone |
| 2021-11-11 | sw.ink | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Embed NL-to-SQL into your Product 📈 · dataherald.com | gone |
| 2021-06-02 | loom.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Meeting agendas, notes, & goals that tie back to your OKRs · hypercontext.com | gone |
| 2021-05-21 | proficience.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMindmesh Mindmesh is the virtual desk that puts you in control. · mindmesh.com | gone |
| 2021-12-22 | interviewer.space | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAerotime Calendar that kills time fragmentation · aerotime.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCJune June is the new way to do product analytics · june.so | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | englog.io | gone~27mo |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2021-04-26 | whize.co | gone |
| 2021-04-01 | buyitforquality.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | AI that solves email overwhelm. Not another mail app. · foragemail.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLalabox Live stream shopping for beauty products · lalabox.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPlatypus The Distributed Data Operating System · getplatypus.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHera Calendar app to prepare, join and follow-up on virtual meetings · hera.so | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Create video testimonials with a link · milkvideo.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPatterns Next-Gen Financial Analysis and Reporting with AI Agents · patterns.app | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.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.