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77 people built something like it. 77 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-10 | medusa-commerce.com | gone |
| 2021-06-24 | 3dasd.com | gone |
| 2021-05-30 | paperd.ink | gone |
| 2022-03-30 | v2.envkey.com | gone |
| 2022-05-11 | paperd.ink | gone |
| 2023-09-19 | hydra.so | gone |
| 2021-08-25 | webcrate.app | gone |
| 2023-03-06 | sorbay.io | gone |
| 2023-07-02 | bigcapital.ly | gone |
| 2021-09-03 | examples.jina.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-09 | usegarnet.com | gone |
| 2022-11-25 | backoffice-demo.ballerine.app | gone |
| 2023-09-18 | gron.games | gone |
| 2022-06-03 | modelrunner.org | gone |
| 2021-05-26 | zentrum.alles.cx | gone |
| 2021-10-04 | fuelfinder.uk | gone |
| 2021-04-26 | usetalk.io | gone |
| 2023-08-19 | bountyfordevs.com | gone |
| 2023-01-12 | getsleuth.xyz | gone |
| 2022-11-25 | search.rye.com | gone |
| 2021-05-20 | recast.amplication.com | gone |
| 2021-04-06 | birthday.report | gone |
| 2023-03-07 | yobulk.dev | gone |
| 2021-04-12 | openresume.dev | gone |
| 2023-05-26 | embedditor.ai | gone |
| 2023-03-24 | demo.uselotus.io | gone |
| 2021-10-07 | librelogos.org | gone |
| 2021-06-06 | dontwaste.today | gone |
| 2023-10-01 | sugarcaneai.dev | gone |
| 2023-07-01 | switchfeat.com | gone |
| 2022-09-06 | scenery.cx | gone |
| 2022-08-25 | go.instill.tech | gone |
| 2021-02-09 | spatcher.io | gone~17mo |
| 2021-03-30 | funklang.com | gone |
| 2022-11-24 | about.opendolphin.social | gone |
| 2022-02-09 | trex.ameba.co | gone |
| 2023-06-28 | bulletpoints.news | gone |
| 2022-10-13 | polistat.mbhs.edu | gone |
| 2021-07-15 | badapple.tools | gone |
| 2023-06-21 | product-module.medusajs.com | gone |
| 2023-06-15 | regrail.io | gone |
| 2021-02-21 | enzymeui.com | gone~38mo |
| 2023-05-07 | pixelfy.ai | gone |
| 2023-06-14 | zapddit.com | gone |
| 2022-04-07 | codespread.io | gone |
| 2022-05-06 | youonlygetanapi.com | gone |
| 2021-03-03 | chickenroll.fun | gone |
| 2023-07-20 | 100.builders | gone |
| 2021-09-08 | mockachino.com | gone |
| 2021-06-18 | steez.news | gone |
| 2023-10-12 | demo.openble.org | gone |
| 2022-07-08 | shop.nootritious.com | gone |
| 2021-04-22 | humanlambdas.com | gone |
| 2022-02-06 | beerba.se | gone |
| 2021-03-06 | harigami.net | gone |
| 2023-03-05 | chatgptbay.com | gone |
| 2021-12-07 | app.openindoor.io | gone |
| 2022-07-27 | quarterlifelist.com | gone |
| 2022-08-04 | app.learningloop.org | gone |
| 2021-01-02 | merge-chance.info | gone~52mo |
How this compares
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
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.