You asked about Self-Driving Vehicles
12 people built something like it. 12 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 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is a B2B company that is developing… · openmotors.co | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Mobile Energy Storage Technology · moxionpower.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCDrivezy India's largest vehicle sharing platform, turning people's vehicles… · drivezy.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCFetch Marketplace for self-service truck rental. · fetchtruck.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | A self-healing platform to enrich and fix server alerts automatically · neptune.io | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCNimbus Tesla for city dwellers · nimbus.green | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCOneKey Find the most profitable sites to build EV charging station · getonekey.io | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Selfycart - let's grocery shoppers scan items and checkout on their… · selfycart.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Firsthand makes software-enabled, self-serve retail kiosks that carry… · shopfirsthand.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | We build self-serve bubble tea dispensers! :D · lambdatea.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Rippling for trucking · drivingforce.co | 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.