You asked about Transportation
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | YCBus.com The easiest way to charter a bus in North America. · bus.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCFetch Marketplace for self-service truck rental. · fetchtruck.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Mosaix builds the NLP for the local languages at the emerging markets. · mosaix.ai | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCRidejoy Long-distance carpooling marketplace. Shut down in early 2013. · ridejoy.com | gone |
| 2009-06-01 | YCCarWoo The best way to buy a new car. · carwoo.com | gone |
| 2021-01-28 | hauling.market | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | WheelStreet is a Motorbike rental marketplace that connects… · wheelstreet.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCVanGo Uber for Kids · ridevango.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCPaneau Tablets inside Uber/Lyfts to advertise directly to riders · paneau.io | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVizy An all-in-one virtual office for remote teams · vizy.io | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCViacycle viaCycle makes simple, inexpensive bicycle sharing systems that allow… · viacycle.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCFixed iPhone app to fight your parking tickets. · getfixed.me | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCCarsabi Carsabi is the search engine for used cars · carsabi.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSkip Electric scooters for reliable last-mile transportation. · rideskip.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | A universal urban transit app. Given all transportation options… · ride.roversf.com | gone |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
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.