You asked about Retail
47 people built something like it. 47 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-01 | YCThread Thread makes it incredibly easy to dress well, using stylists and AI · thread.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Largest B2B eCommerce platform for SMBs in Latin America. · boitas.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPeeba Risk-free wholesale for retailers across Southeast Asia · peeba.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCValienta Helping Dropshippers in Colombia run the business and increase sales · valienta.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCModal digital commerce for the world’s largest auto retailers and brands. · modalup.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCWeltio First LatAm W3 WealthTech for AutoInvesting in securities & crypto · weltio.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Shopify for a mobile first world · mynamaste.in | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCAlana Staff management software for retail, manufacturing and hospitality · alana.jobs | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCCelery Celery is a platform for pre-orders (www.trycelery.com). Accept… · trycelery.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Interior design marketplace and online retailer · tastemaker.com | gone |
| 2011-01-01 | YCInporia Fashion shopping email list. · inporia.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCInokyo We bring physical stores to the digital age with cashierless checkout. · inokyo.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSprintAI AI-led platform for inventory and fulfillment optimization · getsprint.ai | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCDealyze Dealyze helps national retailers build exceptional customer and… · dealyze.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLuca The Modern Pricing Engine for Retail · askluca.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCGonddo Wholesale marketplace for independent retailers buy & manage inventory · gonddo.com.br | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Building Gong.io for offline retail. · outloud.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Mobile app for CPG brands to connect to millions of stores globally · milkyway.ai | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | We make $1,000 Amazon Go stores. · maitian.ai | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCraftOS Inventory Management and POS for the Wine industry · craftos.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCOurMenu ourmenu.io | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Overview Search, as a Service · branch-ai.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Marketplace enabling social commerce for brands and content creators. · globalbelly.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCIn Stock Find any product, in stock nearby · instock.org | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Firsthand makes software-enabled, self-serve retail kiosks that carry… · shopfirsthand.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCHaywheel Haywheel is an artisan food marketplace for restaurants and specialty… · haywheel.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Selfycart - let's grocery shoppers scan items and checkout on their… · selfycart.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | A/B testing for brick-and-mortar stores. · prayasanalytics.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | We make robots that make sandwiches. · bistrobot.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Empowering brick-and-mortar retailers to sell more and engage shoppers · raredoor.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Real-time communication solution for retail and restaurant employees. · shiftmessenger.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCWhirl Pay instantly with your fingerprint. · getwhirl.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | Replacing the paper restaurant menu with an interactive experience at… · buttersystems.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCLocalOn Web marketing for SMBs & merchants associations. · localon.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCCrowdery [Now Clara, YC S14- claralabs.com] · crowdery.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | Ultra-short feedback surveys on tablets mounted in businesses. Higher… · posmetrics.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | YCBeatDeck Music, Metrics... Meritocracy.
(Upload Music, Connect your Social… · beatdeck.com | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | frogmetrics.com | gone |
| 2009-06-01 | YCInstantq instantq.com | gone |
| 2010-01-01 | YCFabricly fabricly.com | gone |
| 2011-01-01 | Facebook stores. · beetailer.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | Augmented reality through projectors · vizeralabs.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Next Generation Home Shopping Network · shopagram.co | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCMindori Mindori builds white-label voice search for e-commerce apps. · mindori.com | gone |
| 2010-01-01 | YCFithub fithub.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Api that let you connect all the restaurant tech services in Latam · mipos.dev | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | BookSolid is the opentable for tour operators. · booksolid.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.