You asked about Swarm AI
210 people built something like it. 210 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. Half of the gone ones were last seen within 19 months of launching.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-23 | pornpen.ai | gone |
| 2023-06-25 | dialup.net | gone |
| 2022-12-20 | paidlink.to | gone |
| 2022-10-10 | playlists.dags.dev | gone |
| 2022-01-31 | magistrate.khanna.law | gone |
| 2023-02-22 | jotte.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-26 | cq.mtc.dev | gone |
| 2021-10-03 | spotml.io | gone |
| 2022-05-28 | meml.ink | gone |
| 2023-04-12 | librarian-ai.com | gone |
| 2021-03-31 | threethingsdaily.xyz | gone |
| 2022-12-17 | huberman.rile.yt | gone |
| 2022-09-06 | voxelchain.app | gone |
| 2023-03-08 | plato.io | gone |
| 2023-12-30 | containercve.com | gone |
| 2022-09-21 | phantasmagoria.stavros.io | gone |
| 2023-03-28 | airwalker.io | gone |
| 2023-05-12 | logicloop.com | gone |
| 2023-08-23 | gentrace.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-25 | sirendns.com | gone |
| 2022-02-05 | nineletterwordgame.com | gone |
| 2023-03-31 | platoeducation.ai | gone |
| 2023-03-05 | turingjest.app | gone |
| 2022-03-21 | getsocialdomain.com | gone |
| 2023-08-11 | obl.ong | gone |
| 2023-08-13 | notyet.news | gone |
| 2022-02-21 | twentyletters.com | gone |
| 2023-08-17 | textify.storia.ai | gone |
| 2021-07-12 | silverdial.org | gone |
| 2023-11-23 | mycyclopedia.co | gone |
| 2021-07-30 | volantai.org | gone |
| 2021-09-03 | examples.jina.ai | gone |
| 2023-09-18 | gron.games | gone |
| 2023-11-29 | docu.review | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | todobot.ai | gone |
| 2021-10-04 | fuelfinder.uk | gone |
| 2021-01-16 | herogateapp.com | gone~11mo |
| 2021-04-11 | muil.io | gone |
| 2022-12-04 | remarkai.in | gone |
| 2022-11-21 | tribecrafters.io | gone |
| 2023-03-13 | mermaidflow.app | gone |
| 2023-08-19 | bountyfordevs.com | gone |
| 2023-03-05 | chatgptbay.com | gone |
| 2023-11-30 | codesnaps.io | gone |
| 2023-10-06 | whattoreadafter.xyz | gone |
| 2021-10-06 | iko.ai | gone |
| 2023-07-29 | neuralsupport.online | gone |
| 2022-11-09 | supertweak.dev | gone |
| 2021-10-13 | ttgpapp.com | gone |
| 2021-11-29 | background.webcam | gone |
| 2021-11-24 | airgram.io | gone |
| 2023-09-29 | joincoflow.com | gone |
| 2022-11-20 | costerly.com | gone |
| 2023-05-17 | subscriber-only.com | gone |
| 2022-09-26 | airplane.dev | gone |
| 2021-01-30 | etherlearn.cryptizens.io | gone |
| 2021-01-27 | creart.innovrepublic.com | gone |
| 2021-04-10 | cardanocubes.com | gone |
| 2023-05-02 | handsdown.kianpak.com | gone |
| 2023-03-07 | yobulk.dev | gone |
How this compares
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
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.