You asked about Media
18 people built something like it. 18 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-01 | YCCoub Coub is YouTube for video loops. You can take any video from YouTube,… · coub.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Everyday.me - Record your life. Store it forever. · everyday.me | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCArk Ark organizes the world's social information. · ark.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCAPSULE Buy anything you find on social media · shopcapsule.ai | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCCovetly #1 Collectibles Marketplace: Authentic Vinyl Toys, Comics, Funko Pop · covetly.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCNaytev Naytev automates paid and organic social media management in one place · naytev.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Video publishing and monetization platform for creators and artists · gigs.live | gone |
| 2010-06-01 | YCUpbeat Upbeat: Building the next generation of Public Relations (PR) · upbeatpr.com | 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 |
| 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
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.