You asked about Smart Home Assistants
78 people built something like it. 78 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-01 | YCWhyd We make a beautiful, great sounding, voice-controlled speaker. · whyd.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCboxouse portable, affordable, beautiful smart homes · boxouse.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCBarSense Kid's first smartphone with web-based parental controls. · kytephone.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | 3D printing beautiful, high-quality, and sustainable homes. · mightybuildings.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCThread Thread makes it incredibly easy to dress well, using stylists and AI · thread.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Home electrification at $0 upfront cost · solarmente.es | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Move Loot is the most convenient and economical way to buy and sell… · moveloot.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | The fastest and easiest way to make home upgrades · homebreeze.ai | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Autonomous homebuilding factory for the $1.7 trillion housing crisis. · rentthebackyard.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAtmos The entire homebuilding process, all online · buildatmos.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Homestead is a real estate development platform for homeowners · myhomestead.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | We go all out to Build the Smartest AI-Enabled Cameras! · avairsense.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Abundance Labs incubates and builds alternative currency marketplace… · abundancelabs.io | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Interior design marketplace and online retailer · tastemaker.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCStyleBee marketplace for beauty services delivered at the convenience of… · stylebee.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCNomiku Wave our food in front of your Nomiku and have dinner for everyone… · nomiku.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | Cross-store wedding registry. · registrylove.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCastle Castle manages rental homes using automation and on-demand labor. · entercastle.com | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCKicksend Send and print photo albums with people you love.
Acquired by Lyft · kicksend.com | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCOpez Yelp for service pros. · opez.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Engineering and Programming for Kids 6-12 with a focus on creativity,… · futureleague.co | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCAvo Online convenience store for residential and office buildings · avonow.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Testing & treatment at home, in minutes, for chronic & acute disease · cliphealth.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPeakPath Smartwatch powered coaching to improve teams sustainable performance · peakpath.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCVanGo Uber for Kids · ridevango.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | Easiest way to set appointments with real estate leads · smartalto.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSpoken Never overpay online · spoken.io | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCInnaMed At-home blood testing: measure + analyze + enhance. · innamed.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Smart hardware for injury recovery.
· pentavo.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | SourceBeacon is an on-demand procurement concierge for sourcing… · sourcebeacon.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLunaSec An Open Source dependency security tool that is smarter than the rest · lunasec.io | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCUpfront A personal assistant for every homeowner · tryupfront.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCMilo The Family AI - a copilot for parents to tackle the invisible load of… · joinmilo.com | gone |
| 2006-06-01 | Community-curated catalogs for product recommendations · zanbazaar.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCHomeflow Simplifying insurance for large real estate investors · homeflow.me | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCMonthli Monthli is the first marketplace for homeowner associations. We… · monthli.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCNecto ISP starter kit · joinnecto.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCHutsy Home Buying on Autopilot · hutsy.co | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Make graphics like a Pro without being one · playground.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Provides live, virtual running classes to runners all around the world · chargerunning.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCCovetly #1 Collectibles Marketplace: Authentic Vinyl Toys, Comics, Funko Pop · covetly.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Instant, fresh ethnic food that actually taste homemade. We're… · thebuttermilkco.com | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | YCAnyvite anyvite.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | The first online home garden and lawn marketplace · enterneverland.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Low-cost blood glucose test strips scanned with a smartphone camera… · simplestrips.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCBlok A platform for fitness instructors to build their business and… · blok.fit | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | The Mercer Club is a subscription service that allows men to rent… · themercerclubnyc.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | BNPL for moving and renting. · safelyfinance.co | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCLitHit Smart Target for Shooting Sports · lithit.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Smartsite is a hardware device to protect workers from health risks… · smartsitesafety.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCEnvyl Envyl enables a fast, reliable and cost effective peer to peer… · envyl.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Modernizing home health care agencies with software, hardware, and… · anchorhealth.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPoppy Poppy makes it easy for parents to find high quality childcare with… · meetpoppy.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Start Closing is changing the way homeowners and contractors interact… · startclosing.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCEnflux Motion capture clothing for injury prevention · getenflux.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCHalolife Halolife is an online platform to find and plan a burial or cremation… · halolife.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | We're changing the world of coffee, one personalized cup at a time. · sevacoffee.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCSpoil Spoil is gifting for the Snapchat generation. · spoil.co | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Empowering brick-and-mortar retailers to sell more and engage shoppers · raredoor.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCShout Real-Time Classifieds · useshout.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.