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19 people built something like it. 19 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 | YCWelcome Create jaw dropping virtual events · experiencewelcome.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCOico B2B marketplace for construction material in Brazil. · en.oico.com.br | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Bicycle AI provides customer support as a service. We work on top of… · bicycleai.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YConetool App-Store for SaaS: one invoice, one user management, one login. · onetool.co | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCDropbase AI app builder for internal tools. Build back-office software faster… · dropbase.io | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | AI driven professional engineering firm · traverse.ai | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | Claim solar incentives with AI · jasmine.energy | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Software for robotaxi operations. · passenger.ai | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCRemy Making it simpler for medical clinics to work with insurance · startremy.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNimbus Nimbus reduces Datadog costs by more than 60% without Manual Effort · nimbus.dev | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | We help run engaging online conferences. · meetanyway.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI-powered customer support automation for fast-growing companies · opensight.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Automate paperwork by turning documents into structured data. · docucharm.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCPre The AI accountability agent for startup founders · buildwithpre.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCProfig The phone system for businesses. Manage everything from your company… · profig.com | gone |
| 2010-01-01 | LaunchHear was a startup attempting to make PR scale in the same way… · alexkrupp.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSorted Instant SaaS management · sorted-lp.webflow.io | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCZaam Zaam is an end-to-end SaaS solution for business onboarding. · zaam.io | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCHipmob Customer communication for iOS and Android developers - an in-app… · hipmob.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.