You asked about Genetic Engineering
124 people built something like it. 124 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-01 | We enable cheaper, faster, and better genetic engineering of plants.… · taxa.com | gone |
| 2007-06-01 | YCEivod eivod.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Engineering next-generation, brain-penetrant cancer therapies. · reverielabs.com | gone |
| 2022-06-21 | scenario.tech | gone |
| 2023-04-02 | uimakers.club | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPathmind Pathmind helps industrial engineers and simulation modelers achieve… · pathmind.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCSixa Personal computer in the cloud · sixa.io | gone |
| 2008-01-01 | YCTrigger Better PhoneGap. · trigger.io | gone |
| 2011-01-01 | Turning PhDs & engineers into data scientists & data engineers · insightdatascience.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | We speed up Excel. · datanitro.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCCamperoo Engineering and Programming for Kids 6-12 with a focus on creativity,… · futureleague.co | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | Data Quality & Playback Platform · streamdal.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCNarrator The only platform that can prep data to answer EVERY question you… · narratordata.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Never code alone. · squire.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPloomber Heroku for AI · ploomber.io | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | We generate synthetic data for computer vision models. · zumolabs.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Large Scale Genomic Data Mining Software · spiralgenetics.com | gone |
| 2023-03-21 | devscreen.io | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | GitHub for visual data · labelflow.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | AI driven professional engineering firm · traverse.ai | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCXkit Universal CRM integration for B2B SaaS apps · xkit.co | gone |
| 2021-12-22 | interviewer.space | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | englog.io | gone~27mo |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLynx AI platform for investigating and resolving engineering incidents · uselynx.ai | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCEnveloop Design and send messages from your app with a simple API. · enveloop.com | gone |
| 2022-08-31 | devscreen.io | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCQueue All-in-one platform for agencies to launch and grow · usequeue.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCDuckly Video chat with real-time collaboration. · duckly.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | The publishing layer for the agentic internet · structuredlabs.com | gone |
| 2023-01-12 | handcalc.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Eve is our way of bringing the power of computation to everyone, not… · kodowa.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCClay Figma for 3D design · clay3d.io | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCUnflow The next generation CMS built for mobile apps · unflow.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCPagedraw Pagedraw is a platform for productionizing designs into code. Thanks… · pagedraw.io | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPelm Plaid for utilities · pelm.com | gone |
| 2021-04-26 | whize.co | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCVessel Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools · vessel.dev | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Synthetic data for better vision. · sbxrobotics.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPensil New-Age White Label Community Platform SDKs and APIs for Games,… · pensil.in | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCContrast Developer Handoff - Reimagined for Storybook · mismatch.app | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | lightwell.pro | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCFloydHub ML Platform for developing, training and deploying ML models · floydhub.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | Aide is an AI-native , privacy-first IDE built on top of VSCode · aide.dev | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCTusk AI agent that generates unit and integration tests · usetusk.ai | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCcamfer Building the world’s first AI mechanical engineer. · camfer.dev | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCSixty On demand web app help · usesixty.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Convert Design files to working websites automagically · markupwand.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Turn any website into an API · dashblock.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCGrai Open source version control for metadata · grai.io | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | API For PDF Document Workflows · fileforge.com | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | YCRovr AI FDE Engine that runs your engineering workflows · withrovr.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCInvaria The next generation logging and observability platform · invaria.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Distributed AI for Industrial Process Monitoring and Optimization. · numericcal.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Create Alexa Skills without coding · producthunt.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCNaytev Naytev automates paid and organic social media management in one place · naytev.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTriplit The best database for app developers · triplit.dev | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPlatypus The Distributed Data Operating System · getplatypus.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCodeball AI-Powered Code Review · codeball.ai | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCMarft Marft creates embeddable machine learning models for application… · marft.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBuzzle Automatic voice-of-customer trends & metrics from sales conversations. · buzzle.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.
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.