You asked about Restaurant Tech
50 people built something like it. 50 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Mobile Energy Storage Technology · moxionpower.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Home electrification at $0 upfront cost · solarmente.es | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | The fastest and easiest way to make home upgrades · homebreeze.ai | gone |
| 2021-10-11 | hellocaribou.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Plaid for Southeast Asia · finantier.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | End-to-end commercial real estate transaction platform · propreturns.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTAG TAG is the First Digital Bank (Chime/Revolut/N26) for Pakistan · tagme.pk | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Buy and grow profitable e-commerce companies selling on Amazon and DTC · moonshotbrands.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Purchasing Software | Procure-to-Pay SaaS · controlhub.com | gone |
| 2021-09-14 | hackerpen.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAkudo India's first learning-focused neobank for teenagers · akudo.in | gone |
| 2021-06-15 | tilodb.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMine The AI personal finance company. · usemine.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | The payments solution for small scale construction. · go.build | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCovie Programmatic building blocks for transacting with insurance · covie.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Personal gaming coach for PC gamers globally · senpai.gg | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNoble Risk decisioning platform · benoble.io | gone |
| 2021-09-26 | jobsinhealthtech.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Thought-to-Language AI Models · mindportal.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCZage Pay by bank and earn rewards · tryzage.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCKrab Instant loans for trucking companies in India · krab.in | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCIvella Banking and savings products designed for couples · ivella.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCJoinSub India's first aggregator and provider of local business subscriptions · joinsub.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | DoF provides a high quality, affordable higher education alternative. · degreesoffreedom.org | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCJupe Just add land · jupe.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAlgofi Building the new financial system · algofi.org | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLevo Treasury management platform for SMBs to optimize idle cash in Latam · levo.mx | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFinary Discord for investing. · about.finary.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCheqout Mobile ordering & payments for Brick & Mortars · cheqout.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | englog.io | gone~27mo |
| 2021-07-22 | start.menuapp.shop | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Discover drugs that control how much cells "squeeze" to treat disease · forcytebio.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Community for fantasy sports players · getplaymaker.app | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHedgehog Cryptocurrency Robo-adviser. Buy. Balance. Relax. · hedgehog.app | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPAYZE Stripe for former Soviet Union countries · payze.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCVerde Digital lending platform for Brazilian farmers · verde.agr.br | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCommery Marketplace to lease commercial real estate · trycommery.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Zapier for billing · hyperseed.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCApollo The card that rewards you with stock · withapollo.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Accelerating the shift to a more transparent economy · purposefinance.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNexus Nexus offers a unified checking and investment account. · nexushq.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTaste Online marketplace for dinners shipped from great restaurants · gettaste.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCFlowbo Pipe for online businesses · flowbo.co | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCnoHQ International contractor and multi country payroll · nohq.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Async personalized and actionable health education by real doctors · rutahealth.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCOpkit AI phone calls for the US healthcare industry · opkit.co | 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.