You asked about Media
22 people built something like it. 22 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-15 | niceplace.network | gone |
| 2022-12-30 | fetcher.page | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCCoub Coub is YouTube for video loops. You can take any video from YouTube,… · coub.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCArk Ark organizes the world's social information. · ark.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Everyday.me - Record your life. Store it forever. · everyday.me | gone |
| 2021-04-14 | cropping.rocks | gone |
| 2021-02-26 | member.chatanalytic.com | gone~13mo |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCAPSULE Buy anything you find on social media · shopcapsule.ai | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCNaytev Naytev automates paid and organic social media management in one place · naytev.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCCovetly #1 Collectibles Marketplace: Authentic Vinyl Toys, Comics, Funko Pop · covetly.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Video publishing and monetization platform for creators and artists · gigs.live | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | YCSlinkset Votable lists · slinkset.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFigments Building worlds at technological inflection points · plotdrive.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCIxora We create the digital outdoor environment for a movie. · ixora.org | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Social media management tool for Instagram and Snapchat · storyboard.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCStreamup Streamup is a live streaming community for music. We make it fun and… · streamup.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | YCBeatDeck Music, Metrics... Meritocracy.
(Upload Music, Connect your Social… · beatdeck.com | gone |
| 2010-01-01 | LaunchHear was a startup attempting to make PR scale in the same way… · alexkrupp.com | gone |
| 2010-06-01 | YCUpbeat Upbeat: Building the next generation of Public Relations (PR) · upbeatpr.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCMoFE Next generation Disney. · mofe.co | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLumona AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. · lumona.ai | gone |
| 2006-01-01 | YCSnipshot We sold Snipshot to Ansa in 2013. · snipshot.com | 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.