You asked about Food
50 people built something like it. 50 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 |
| 2022-04-25 | foodiemap.io | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone · inevitabletech.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCZoomer Outsourced, high volume food delivery.
· zoomerdelivery.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOrchata Groceries delivered in 20 min in Latinamerica · orchata.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | We license brands for delivery and pick-up · purpleplate.co | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | On demand provider of meat to households and food businesses · sendme.ng | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCMilkRun Get Food From Farmers, Delivered. · localmilkrun.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPerfekto Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam · perfekto.mx | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCByte On-demand food delivery from dark kitchens in Pakistan. · web.thebyte.app | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Upgrading Your Wine Experience · undergroundcellar.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCOvipost Automated insect farming · ovipost.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | A brand-new blend of sugars – made from plant fiber! · supplant.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCDuffl 10-minute delivery service for college students. · duffl.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Wine by the glass, delivered · getvinebox.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | Worlds smallest and friendliest café franchise. "The Bike-Powered… · wheelyscafe.com | gone |
| 2009-01-01 | YCFoodoro foodoro.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCNomiku Wave our food in front of your Nomiku and have dinner for everyone… · nomiku.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCGrouper We set up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls. · joingrouper.com | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | Hyperlinking the real world. · paperlinks.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | An AI-powered digital grocer that delivers in under 60 mins. · farmsteadapp.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2023-10-31 | dieornot.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRacer 15-minute food delivery · racer.app | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Amazon for Vegans · mylkguys.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | We are doing for seafood what Impossible did for meat · ordinaryseafood.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMembo Groceries fresher than a farmer’s market, delivered to you (EU) · membo.ee | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Instant, fresh ethnic food that actually taste homemade. We're… · thebuttermilkco.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTaste Online marketplace for dinners shipped from great restaurants · gettaste.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCBensen Online and phone ordering for restaurant takeout and delivery · bensen.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCSimmer We do reviews for dishes. Our app helps users find the very best… · usesimmer.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | We build self-serve bubble tea dispensers! :D · lambdatea.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Cannabis infused beverages · drinkdreamin.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCOrigin Keurig for healthy smoothies. · eatorigin.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Crystallized coffee that's better than fresh Starbucks · suddencoffee.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCHaywheel Haywheel is an artisan food marketplace for restaurants and specialty… · haywheel.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | We make robots that make sandwiches. · bistrobot.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCZenamins Personalized health company doing customized vitamin packs on… · zenamins.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCache Online convenience stores fulfilled by tiny, automated dark stores. · grabcache.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCChoppy! FAST FLAVORFUL PROTEIN · eatchoppy.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Marketplace enabling social commerce for brands and content creators. · globalbelly.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Longevity Nutrition Service · eatblueprint.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHideout A portfolio of delivery-only restaurant brands · findhideout.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Personalized liquid supplements based your health data · mynutrigene.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | dairy reinvented from plants · sperofoods.co | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCYumbin App replaces office vending. · yumbin.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPearl The future of office coffee. Keurig convenience meets cafe quality. · getpearlcoffee.com | 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.