You asked about Robotic Process Automation
65 people built something like it. 65 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-01 | From screen recordings to desktop automations using program synthesis · warpdrive.co | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | AI driven professional engineering firm · traverse.ai | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Turn any website into an API · dashblock.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCRoboTire Robotire is automating vehicle maintenance for today and future… · robotire.com | gone |
| 2022-07-25 | ab.bot | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | 3D printing beautiful, high-quality, and sustainable homes. · mightybuildings.com | gone |
| 2022-08-05 | rocketride.io | gone |
| 2022-01-31 | candymail.saasbase.dev | gone |
| 2022-11-18 | posterity.life | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone · inevitabletech.com | gone |
| 2023-04-07 | signalprocessingjobs.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAtmos The entire homebuilding process, all online · buildatmos.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | AI-enabled automation of diagnostic radiology workflow and reporting. · synapsica.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | AWS for manufacturing. · voodoomfg.com | gone |
| 2023-05-26 | embedditor.ai | gone |
| 2022-10-30 | signalprocessingjobs.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | The robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences. · transcriptic.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | The operating system for factory production lines · aisupervision.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on… · robby.io | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | YCMedisas Medisas builds workflow & collaboration software for hospitals. · medisas.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCastle Castle manages rental homes using automation and on-demand labor. · entercastle.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Driverless Trucks, for real. · starsky.io | gone |
| 2021-09-28 | aikido.finance | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Open-source humanoid robots · kscale.dev | gone |
| 2023-09-20 | skillpool.tech | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCShone Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit. · shone.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | The Unified API for Business Financial Data · integrationlabs.co | gone |
| 2023-06-09 | pluto.fi | gone |
| 2023-05-13 | simplotask.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCArylla We connect products to the internet using an invisible, chip-less tag · arylla.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCMystro Mystro is an app that makes rideshare drivers up to 30% more money by… · mystrodriver.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCVathys Accelerating machine learning through software · vathys.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Synthetic data for better vision. · sbxrobotics.com | gone |
| 2023-09-15 | bytewax.io | gone |
| 2021-01-27 | autotask.site | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | YCAltrina The SOP Automation Platform · altrina.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLunaSec An Open Source dependency security tool that is smarter than the rest · lunasec.io | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCFinnt AI Agents for CFO and Finance teams · finnt.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Distributed AI for Industrial Process Monitoring and Optimization. · numericcal.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSidenote Meeting follow-up, automated · sidenote.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPlatypus The Distributed Data Operating System · getplatypus.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCPashi Pashi builds software to operate and optimize production lines. · pashi.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI-powered customer support automation for fast-growing companies · opensight.ai | gone |
| 2026-01-01 | Custom Aerospace-Grade Battery Packs · kytentech.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Give Salesforce the AI upgrade it deserves · crmcopilot.co | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCDefer Zero infrastructure background processing platform. · defer.run | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Implement streamlined Salesforce processes for agile GTM teams · laserfocus.io | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Blockstamp is an asset management software for industrial equipment · blockstampsf.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCTensil We turn machine learning models into custom hardware. · tensil.ai | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCOSIMple Software for inspectors to automate their paper workflow. · osimple.co | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Marketing automation platform optimized for mobile and web. · marketfox.io | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | On average each Ambulance run is two hours long, 40 minutes is spent… · rigplenish.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | Building the lowest-power silicon for embedded deep learning and… · remicro.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCShotput Shotput (S15) develops AI and robotics to completely automate… · theshotput.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCBeep Cellular networks for IoT. · beepnetworks.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Functional 3D printing materials. · madesolid.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCArc aerial videography · arccameras.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLifecast Software to create 3D video for VR, robotics and film. · lifecastvr.com | 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.