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1,530 people built something like it. 217 are gone.
That is 15% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. Half of the gone ones were last seen within 21 months of launching. 110 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCNasdisc A marketplace for vinyl, cassettes and cds · nasdisc.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-21 | demo.vercel.pub | unverified |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTint Makes it easy for tech platforms to embed insurance into products · tint.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPulpix Binge-watching technology for video platforms. · pulpix.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFintool Financial copilot for institutional investors · fintool.com | acquired |
| 2026-01-01 | YCInstinct Trade your instinct · instinct.xyz | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCAlgoriz Algoriz is an AI based algorithmic trading platform that enables you… · algoriz.com | gone |
| 2026-06-01 | YCArbital The social trading app for stocks, memes, and perps · arbital.xyz | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCattimet Building the Prime Radiant · attimet.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Derivatives Exchange for Compute · getcomputable.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCLysto Revenue intelligence platforms for startups · lysto.ai | gone |
| 2026-06-01 | YCTovenAI AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms · toven.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCDreamRP Tech and platforms for human creators and the entertainment industry · dreamrp.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCLotas AI for quantitative trading · lotas.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAYC Fund AI-native crypto hedge fund · aycfund.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup · instacart.com | acquired |
| 2022-11-16 | notion.so | moved |
| 2022-11-30 | wyldcard.io | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Rebuilding healthcare with AI at the core · akidolabs.com | still up |
| 2022-02-01 | first100users.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | AI-First Creative Partner for Enterprise Teams · superside.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2023-07-30 | sfcompute.org | unverified |
| 2022-06-30 | ycombinator.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCVanta Vanta—the proven leader in automated compliance helping startups… · vanta.com | still up |
| 2022-01-06 | productrecipes.com | moved |
| 2022-02-02 | pallyy.com | still up |
| 2022-03-11 | phlaunchchecklist.com | still up |
| 2022-10-13 | obsidian.md | still up |
| 2023-10-10 | eliot.blog | still up |
| 2022-04-06 | wizenguides.com | moved |
| 2022-06-28 | earth.fm | still up |
| 2022-07-13 | totalrealreturns.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCScale AI Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI · scale.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCLeena AI We at Leena AI build a virtual assistant that answers employee's… · leena.ai | still up |
| 2022-03-22 | fuelfinance.me | still up |
| 2022-06-30 | gorelay.co | still up |
| 2022-03-07 | loops.so | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLegora The AI workspace for lawyers · legora.com | still up |
| 2022-11-03 | gitbook.com | still up |
| 2022-10-11 | deepstash.com | still up |
| 2022-02-21 | apigacor88.art | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCTovala A smart-oven-paired subscription meal service. · tovala.com | still up |
| 2022-11-03 | picso.ai | still up |
| 2022-10-04 | supabase.com | still up |
| 2022-10-04 | sparkmailapp.com | still up |
| 2022-05-23 | startups.fyi | still up |
| 2022-01-19 | uteach.io | unverified |
| 2022-10-12 | stockai.com | unverified |
| 2022-06-14 | ilo.so | unverified |
| 2022-05-13 | angelmatch.io | unverified |
| 2022-05-26 | microstartups.co | unverified |
| 2021-01-01 | Seamless mobility to, through, and from space. It starts with 100%… · stokespace.com | still up |
| 2022-04-29 | phlaunchchecklist.com | still up |
| 2022-10-27 | astria.ai | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCMiso We make booking services as easy as buying products online. · miso.kr | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Harnesses business activity to unlock growth. · people.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCSendbird The AI agent that doesn’t just support, it delights. · sendbird.com | still up |
| 2022-02-15 | shortwave.com | still up |
| 2022-06-13 | favikon.com | still up |
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.
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.