You asked about SMB
6 people built something like it. 6 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | Largest B2B eCommerce platform for SMBs in Latin America. · boitas.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCFibo SaaS calendar and messaging for SMBs · fiboapp.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Shopify for a mobile first world · mynamaste.in | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLevo Treasury management platform for SMBs to optimize idle cash in Latam · levo.mx | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCLocalOn Web marketing for SMBs & merchants associations. · localon.com | gone |
| 2011-01-01 | YCSiasto Siasto is a collaboration tool designed for SMBs who use Google Apps,… · siasto.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.