You asked about Insurance
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | YCCover The mobile-first insurance platform that makes insurance easy. · cover.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Funding platform for global insurance, starting with crop insurance… · worldcovr.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCovie Programmatic building blocks for transacting with insurance · covie.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Insurance Distribution Infrastructure · zincplatform.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCovela The digital insurance broker for SMEs in LATAM · covela.mx | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCRemy Making it simpler for medical clinics to work with insurance · startremy.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCHomeflow Simplifying insurance for large real estate investors · homeflow.me | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | The AI copilot for health insurance brokers. · blumebenefits.com | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCLeaky Online auto and business insurance. (Acquired 2013) · leaky.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | An enterprise health benefits platform that rewards employees for… · physioh.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Start Closing is changing the way homeowners and contractors interact… · startclosing.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | AI medical summaries in minutes · riskangle.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | CareLedger helps companies save money on healthcare expenses by… · careledger.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCZen99 Tax and insurance tools for independent contractors · tryzen99.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.