You asked about ML
8 people built something like it. 8 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | Foundation Model for Human Attention · creatorml.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Hearing aids that work in noisy places, like restaurants, using ML. · audiofocus.io | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCFloydHub ML Platform for developing, training and deploying ML models · floydhub.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOrbiter ML models automatically monitor business performance · getorbiter.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBricksAI Streamlining LLM application management for enterprises · trybricks.ai | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Implement streamlined Salesforce processes for agile GTM teams · laserfocus.io | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCPreloop Translate your experimental scripts into production ML services · preloop.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCScout Dead simple CI/CD for ML teams · scout.ml | 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.