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579 people built something like it. 579 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. Half of the gone ones were last seen within 20 months of launching.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-30 | thegist.ai | gone |
| 2023-08-23 | gentrace.ai | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Social Construct designs and assembles large apartment buildings
… · socialconstructco.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | AI.Fashion is the AI creative suite for the fashion industry. · ai.fashion | gone |
| 2023-08-21 | preview.steerlab.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCNophin AI Deal Screening Analyst for Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions · nophin.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCcamfer Building the world’s first AI mechanical engineer. · camfer.dev | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCNeptyne The programmable spreadsheet. · neptyne.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPhind AI search engine · phind.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | API for Retrieval Augmented Generation · superpowered.ai | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCRemy Making it simpler for medical clinics to work with insurance · startremy.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCAPSULE Buy anything you find on social media · shopcapsule.ai | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSynch Supercharging Sales · withsynch.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | AI Sales Rep for Website Intent Signals · penguinai.app | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI-powered customer support automation for fast-growing companies · opensight.ai | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCDialect AI copilot for forms, questionnaires & RFX · usedialect.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCEcho Founder-led sales co-pilot for B2B startups. · echothat.ai | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Make graphics like a Pro without being one · playground.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | Affordable carbon tracking solution for all businesses · greentally.ai | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCVango AI Development platform that makes it 10x easier to improve visual models · vango.ai | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | The Gen AI evaluation and curation platform · magicflow.ai | gone |
| 2025-06-01 | YCClosera AI Shopping Agent for Your Ecommerce Store · closera.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAbel Transforming document review for litigation teams · tryabel.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCMercator AI-assisted data analytics · mercator.tech | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFabius AI to improve Sales Calls · fabius.io | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI assistant for customer support · growparabolic.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI-powered data extraction engine · indexical.dev | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCLifelike lifelike.app | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLumona AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. · lumona.ai | gone |
| 2022-08-23 | pornpen.ai | gone |
| 2022-05-23 | getnora.page | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | The everything store for restaurants in LATAM. · frubana.com | gone |
| 2023-06-25 | dialup.net | gone |
| 2022-07-07 | router.via.exchange | gone |
| 2022-12-20 | paidlink.to | gone |
| 2022-01-19 | dakiya.xyz | gone |
| 2022-10-10 | playlists.dags.dev | gone |
| 2022-07-12 | airgram.io | gone |
| 2022-01-31 | magistrate.khanna.law | gone |
| 2022-02-02 | devtoolsfortailwind.com | gone |
| 2022-06-15 | humit.app | gone |
| 2021-01-23 | rysolv.com | gone |
| 2022-10-03 | exactbuyer.com | gone |
| 2022-04-26 | sigmamail.ai | gone |
| 2023-02-22 | jotte.ai | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCKobo360 Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. · kobo360.com | gone |
| 2022-05-17 | blendsocial.io | gone |
| 2022-04-22 | sonero.ai | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | 3D printing beautiful, high-quality, and sustainable homes. · mightybuildings.com | gone |
| 2022-10-04 | debugmail.io | gone |
| 2022-01-24 | suprememinds.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-31 | ideas-generator.com | gone |
| 2022-03-09 | techstandswithukraine.io | gone |
| 2021-06-26 | cq.mtc.dev | gone |
| 2021-10-03 | spotml.io | gone |
| 2022-05-28 | meml.ink | gone |
| 2022-04-06 | atompay.me | gone |
| 2022-03-31 | lisnclips.app | gone |
| 2022-06-28 | snackable.ai | 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.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
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.