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126 people built something like it. 126 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 22 months of launching.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-01 | lessmilk.com | gone |
| 2021-09-07 | bonsaibrowser.com | gone |
| 2021-05-08 | portfolio.zxh.io | gone |
| 2023-10-05 | store.app | gone |
| 2021-01-07 | synergyjs.org | gone~54mo |
| 2022-04-16 | serentty.com | gone |
| 2021-05-30 | paperd.ink | gone |
| 2022-02-23 | telegie.com | gone |
| 2022-05-11 | paperd.ink | gone |
| 2022-03-04 | fastflood.dylancastillo.co | gone |
| 2022-05-28 | meml.ink | gone |
| 2021-12-29 | walloftext.art | gone |
| 2023-09-02 | xrss.infogulch.com | gone |
| 2021-08-25 | webcrate.app | gone |
| 2021-02-20 | tabfloater.io | gone |
| 2023-12-30 | containercve.com | gone |
| 2023-02-12 | g-script.io | gone |
| 2022-02-23 | docs.hathora.dev | gone |
| 2023-01-26 | onekb.uber.space | gone |
| 2023-03-28 | klavier.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-22 | companydirectory.uk | gone |
| 2021-02-07 | onethousand.in | gone~24mo |
| 2023-06-28 | nohooks.io | gone |
| 2022-12-13 | shipnix.io | gone |
| 2022-09-26 | smarketman.com | gone |
| 2021-06-03 | assetroulette.com | gone |
| 2023-12-13 | noise.site | gone |
| 2022-09-29 | jiter.dev | gone |
| 2022-03-13 | convey.earth | gone |
| 2021-02-14 | fjbundler.com | gone~22mo |
| 2021-10-15 | indiefeeds.com | gone |
| 2021-02-27 | writer.math.dev | gone~13mo |
| 2023-01-23 | synesthesia.ai | gone |
| 2022-09-12 | beta.readtomyshoe.com | gone |
| 2021-01-14 | staticbackend.com | gone~55mo |
| 2022-12-20 | veonid.com | gone |
| 2021-04-26 | usetalk.io | gone |
| 2022-11-21 | tribecrafters.io | gone |
| 2023-09-20 | iwantthisstartup.com | gone |
| 2021-09-28 | instantpreview.dev | gone |
| 2022-12-01 | taptab.manibatra.xyz | gone |
| 2021-11-29 | background.webcam | gone |
| 2023-04-19 | gogobrowse.com | gone |
| 2022-01-18 | freebrowsers.dosyago.com | gone |
| 2023-05-02 | handsdown.kianpak.com | gone |
| 2021-01-30 | puzzlepanda.com | gone~22mo |
| 2023-07-04 | txtpages.xyz | gone |
| 2022-01-10 | hackernews.pro | gone |
| 2023-06-13 | react.frameright.io | gone |
| 2021-06-13 | graha.io | gone |
| 2021-08-19 | canonic.dev | gone |
| 2023-05-08 | cookgpt.nl | gone |
| 2022-03-02 | beta.backspace.eco | gone |
| 2023-12-23 | futurehurry.com | gone |
| 2021-06-07 | duskee.app | gone |
| 2023-04-19 | remanent.gg | gone |
| 2023-06-10 | color.io | gone |
| 2022-04-13 | playmellow.com | gone |
| 2022-11-27 | twittermastodon.com | gone |
| 2022-09-08 | pictureit.art | 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.