You asked about Latin America
10 people built something like it. 10 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | YCOrchata Groceries delivered in 20 min in Latinamerica · orchata.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Largest B2B eCommerce platform for SMBs in Latin America. · boitas.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCViya Mobile first apartment rentals for LatAm · viyaliving.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCovela The digital insurance broker for SMEs in LATAM · covela.mx | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBotin Investment super app for Latin America · botin.app | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCGlio Amazon Marketplace for Latin America · glio.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Api that let you connect all the restaurant tech services in Latam · mipos.dev | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCBus.com The easiest way to charter a bus in North America. · bus.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | AFROSTREAM is Netflix for African-American and African content… · afrostream.tv | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCFameGame Live and interactive TV shows for mobile - starting with American… · itunes.apple.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.