You asked about Recruiting
14 people built something like it. 14 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 | YCTorch torch.io | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCAlana Staff management software for retail, manufacturing and hospitality · alana.jobs | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCElpha Professional network for women · elpha.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | We teach Filipinos to become remote software engineers globally. · avionschool.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Your personal hiring page. · talentdrop.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCFastpad Hiring Software for India · fastpad.com | gone |
| 2008-01-01 | joberator.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCSycamore Marketplace for companies to add a delivery driver in 5 minutes. · mysycamore.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | Predicting workplace performance through neuroscience · prophecysciences.com | gone |
| 2008-01-01 | snaptalent.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Virtual events for remote teams · miniexhibitions.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | StrongIntro helps recruiters turn their entire company into a source… · strongintro.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSyncro Intelligence layer for internal communications and culture · runsyncro.com | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | jobalchemist.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.