You asked about Virtual and Augmented Reality
36 people built something like it. 36 are gone.
That is 100% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-01 | YCScope AR Scope AR is the leading provider of User Guided Augmented Reality… · scopear.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Wordpress for AR & VR · sketchbox3d.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCMeta Augmented reality glasses. · metavision.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCSunu Audio and Haptics AR interface equipping blind users with super powers · sunu.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Premium immersive cinematic VR entertainment for captive audiences · skylights.aero | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Augmented Reality mobile app to try and buy tattoos · inkhunter.tattoo | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | The simplest way to test, manage, and deploy VR/AR apps at scale. · constructvr.io | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Disney meets Airbnb Experiences · adventurous.co | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCIxora We create the digital outdoor environment for a movie. · ixora.org | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRTCanary We are a monitoring and analytics plugin for all video chat platforms. · rtcanary.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | DoF provides a high quality, affordable higher education alternative. · degreesoffreedom.org | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | Social avatar platform for VTubers · hyper.online | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | YCDabble A synthetic photo studio for e-commerce · dabble.so | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCZigfu Layer above Kinect. · breaks.nu | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLifecast Software to create 3D video for VR, robotics and film. · lifecastvr.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | Augmented reality through projectors · vizeralabs.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPengram Indoor navigation through augmented reality on your phone. · pengramar.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCmiru Experience any piece of furniture in AR · miruhome.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCMoFE Next generation Disney. · mofe.co | gone |
| 2022-07-04 | jrny.coach | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCWelcome Create jaw dropping virtual events · experiencewelcome.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2022-07-20 | sceneforge.app | gone |
| 2022-07-01 | makeacard.info | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCTandem Tandem is a virtual office for remote and distributed teams. · tandem.chat | gone |
| 2022-01-17 | 3dify.me | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMindmesh Mindmesh is the virtual desk that puts you in control. · mindmesh.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | The "Shopify" for Online Schools · tryvirtually.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | API for Retrieval Augmented Generation · superpowered.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Provides live, virtual running classes to runners all around the world · chargerunning.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVizy An all-in-one virtual office for remote teams · vizy.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHera Calendar app to prepare, join and follow-up on virtual meetings · hera.so | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCGoScale Dynamical Scaling Virtual Machines as a Service · goscale.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Virtual events for remote teams · miniexhibitions.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Virtual activities for remote teams · merrymint.co | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Building infrastructure to expand scope and quality of virtual care · brick.health | 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.