You asked about Auto Commerce
1,002 people built something like it. 160 are gone.
That is 18% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 107 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | YCKovi Making car ownership more inclusive, flexible and simple. · kovi.com.br | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | One-stop-shop for restaurants to operate and grow their business. · pidedirecto.mx | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We help automotive aftermarket brands to supply and sell parts online · alephee.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCCARUPI CARUPI is the world's 1st managed P2P marketplace for used cars · carupi.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | On-demand auto maintenance & repairs · mechoautotech.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCEkho Shopify for vehicles · ekho.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Automated user acquisition & selling on WhatsApp for businesses · businessonbot.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCModal digital commerce for the world’s largest auto retailers and brands. · modalup.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMayan A growth automation platform for Amazon sellers · mayan.co | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCReacher We automate creator marketing for the world's largest brands · reacherapp.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBlink Same-day delivery for e-commerce companies in Europe. · blinklastmile.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSleek Browser automation for businesses. · onsleek.com | acquired |
| 2026-01-01 | YCLaurence Quantitative research for autonomous e-commerce growth · laurence.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCShotput Shotput (S15) develops AI and robotics to completely automate… · theshotput.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCStrideQ Automated phone ordering system for restaurants · strideq.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCHandled Automating post-order operations for e-commerce brands and 3PLs · itshandled.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Glisten AI automatically categorizes and tags e-commerce product data. · glisten.ai | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Household needs, from bread to everything. · breadfast.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCDoorDash Restaurant delivery. · doordash.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCCruise Self-driving cars. · getcruise.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup · instacart.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCMeesho Democratizing internet commerce for everyone in India · meesho.com | acquired |
| 2022-02-17 | bardeen.ai | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCFivetran The leader in automated data movement · fivetran.com | still up |
| 2022-04-04 | heyday.xyz | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSuper Super is the first and leading Indonesian social commerce platform · superapp.id | still up |
| 2022-01-26 | fig.io | unverified |
| 2020-01-01 | YCWhatnot Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S. · whatnot.com | still up |
| 2021-11-17 | browserflow.app | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCZapier The easiest way to automate your work. · zapier.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCVanta Vanta—the proven leader in automated compliance helping startups… · vanta.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. · ginkgobioworks.com | acquired |
| 2022-11-15 | retool.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCShipper Southeast Asia’s e-commerce logistics and enablement platform · shipper.id | still up |
| 2026-08-20 | simedw.com | unverified |
| 2022-06-24 | beau.to | still up |
| 2022-02-23 | make.com | unverified |
| 2022-04-15 | automate-notion.com | moved |
| 2019-06-01 | Building the safety net of the future · pairteam.com | still up |
| 2022-11-15 | fn12.com | still up |
| 2022-01-24 | automator.design | still up |
| 2022-01-27 | approveit.today | still up |
| 2023-10-19 | autotab.com | still up |
| 2022-07-28 | mailmodo.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSimetrik No code enterprise SaaS for financial control automation. · simetrik.com | still up |
| 2022-03-27 | getrecut.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCSkydropX Logistic Management System for E-commerce & Retail in Mexico. · skydropx.com | still up |
| 2022-06-15 | tango.us | moved |
| 2023-01-25 | automatisch.io | still up |
| 2022-07-29 | docscube.io | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Customizable beauty for hair, skin, and body care products. · functionofbeauty.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Self-driving semi trucks. · embarktrucks.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCShipBlu Amazon Level Logistics for eCommerce Companies in MENA. · shipblu.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa · remedial.health | still up |
| 2022-04-12 | paved.com | still up |
| 2023-10-06 | rolepad.com | still up |
| 2022-02-17 | socialchamp.com | still up |
| 2022-02-24 | paperless.io | still up |
| 2022-08-23 | crawlee.dev | 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.