You asked about Transportation
14 people built something like it. 14 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 |
| 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 |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSkip Electric scooters for reliable last-mile transportation. · rideskip.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCCarsabi Carsabi is the search engine for used cars · carsabi.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | A universal urban transit app. Given all transportation options… · ride.roversf.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.