You asked about Smart Clothing
15 people built something like it. 15 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | The Mercer Club is a subscription service that allows men to rent… · themercerclubnyc.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCEnflux Motion capture clothing for injury prevention · getenflux.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | We go all out to Build the Smartest AI-Enabled Cameras! · avairsense.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPeakPath Smartwatch powered coaching to improve teams sustainable performance · peakpath.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Easiest way to set appointments with real estate leads · smartalto.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Smart hardware for injury recovery.
· pentavo.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLunaSec An Open Source dependency security tool that is smarter than the rest · lunasec.io | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCFREY FREY is a line of exceptional laundry and clothing care products.… · frey.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCboxouse portable, affordable, beautiful smart homes · boxouse.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Low-cost blood glucose test strips scanned with a smartphone camera… · simplestrips.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPerShop Your personal clothing store! · pershop.app | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCLitHit Smart Target for Shooting Sports · lithit.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCWhyd We make a beautiful, great sounding, voice-controlled speaker. · whyd.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Smartsite is a hardware device to protect workers from health risks… · smartsitesafety.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCBarSense Kid's first smartphone with web-based parental controls. · kytephone.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.