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1,380 people built something like it. 1,380 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-18 | dogbunnypuzzle.com | gone |
| 2022-01-13 | looptap.vasanthv.com | gone |
| 2022-03-01 | lessmilk.com | gone |
| 2021-11-05 | nomdebebe.app | gone |
| 2021-09-07 | bonsaibrowser.com | gone |
| 2022-03-27 | networksfromscratch.com | gone |
| 2023-05-17 | beepberry.sqfmi.com | gone |
| 2022-08-23 | pornpen.ai | gone |
| 2021-11-19 | ponymessenger.com | gone |
| 2021-05-08 | portfolio.zxh.io | gone |
| 2022-11-26 | stylometry.net | gone |
| 2022-01-04 | showcase.onlyrecipe.app | gone |
| 2023-10-05 | store.app | gone |
| 2022-05-13 | dev.aspect.app | gone |
| 2022-12-18 | imihajlov.tk | gone |
| 2021-05-22 | instruments.digital | gone |
| 2021-02-26 | hummingbard.com | gone |
| 2021-11-09 | stovetop.app | gone |
| 2023-06-25 | dialup.net | gone |
| 2021-09-10 | medusa-commerce.com | gone |
| 2023-03-31 | blog.coscreen.co | gone |
| 2021-01-07 | synergyjs.org | gone~54mo |
| 2021-08-25 | thishashcollisionisnotporn.com | gone |
| 2022-11-14 | divestos.org | gone |
| 2022-12-20 | paidlink.to | gone |
| 2022-10-10 | playlists.dags.dev | gone |
| 2022-10-29 | ffmpeg.guide | gone |
| 2022-01-31 | magistrate.khanna.law | gone |
| 2022-04-19 | emacs.amodernist.com | gone |
| 2022-04-25 | lists.sh | gone |
| 2021-06-24 | 3dasd.com | gone |
| 2023-01-15 | neuralframes.com | gone |
| 2022-05-27 | podbabble.com | gone |
| 2022-04-28 | fintopea.com | gone |
| 2021-09-07 | xirva.org | gone |
| 2021-10-23 | sub.live | gone |
| 2022-04-16 | serentty.com | gone |
| 2021-01-28 | stonks.news | gone |
| 2021-05-30 | paperd.ink | gone |
| 2022-03-30 | v2.envkey.com | gone |
| 2022-06-14 | mysideproject.rocks | gone |
| 2021-04-25 | mark.show | gone |
| 2023-07-11 | playlaser.xyz | gone |
| 2021-02-21 | tinyads.io | gone~33mo |
| 2022-05-03 | betagainst.fun | gone |
| 2021-01-20 | sundayy.app | gone~28mo |
| 2022-05-27 | maps.ellenhp.me | gone |
| 2023-02-22 | jotte.ai | gone |
| 2022-11-23 | unclutter.it | gone |
| 2022-05-07 | battle-of-flags.com | gone |
| 2021-05-23 | dynablogger.com | gone |
| 2021-07-19 | shouldigetahouse.com | gone |
| 2022-03-31 | weighoff.net | gone |
| 2022-02-23 | telegie.com | gone |
| 2022-05-11 | paperd.ink | gone |
| 2023-12-08 | sol-1.org | gone |
| 2023-08-09 | tosnotify.com | gone |
| 2022-03-04 | fastflood.dylancastillo.co | gone |
| 2022-10-21 | ezpersonality.com | gone |
| 2022-07-20 | signalsandsorcery.org | 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.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
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.