You asked about Automotive
45 people built something like it. 9 are gone.
That is 26% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 11 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | YCCruise Self-driving cars. · getcruise.com | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | Self-driving semi trucks. · embarktrucks.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | Transforming cities and rural areas through AV transit and technology · maymobility.com | still up |
| 2021-04-19 | autonews.io | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Making car ownership and management frictionless. · yoshimobility.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | Car Repairs, Reinvented:a. Mechanic comes to your home or work to fix… · yourmechanic.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | We help automotive aftermarket brands to supply and sell parts online · alephee.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | Automatic connects your car to the rest of your digital life. · automatic.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | YCZendar We make high definition radar allowing self-driving cars to see in… · zendar.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | On-demand auto maintenance & repairs · mechoautotech.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCEkho Shopify for vehicles · ekho.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCAlchemy Nanotechnology-enabled coatings for automotive and defence sectors · alchemynano.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2025-06-01 | YCFlai We Bring Customers to Your Dealership · useflai.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCRoboTire Robotire is automating vehicle maintenance for today and future… · robotire.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Autonomous trucks to fully automate long-haul freight shipping · marsauto.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCCarDash Managed marketplace for automotive services. · repairsmith.com | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | YCPhiar We are developing a revolutionary AI-powered augmented reality… · phiar.net | acquired |
| 2009-06-01 | YCCarWoo The best way to buy a new car. · carwoo.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is a B2B company that is developing… · openmotors.co | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Driverless Trucks, for real. · starsky.io | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Next-generation, modular electric vehicles · olympianmotors.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | YCRevion Intelligence for Automotive Operations · revion.inc | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCMOVEdot AI Agents for Hardware Engineering · movedot.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Phone AI that Captures Every Dealership Revenue Opportunity · shortloop.dev | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Agent-Driven Engineering · navier.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Automating lenders' interactions with the DMV · cardinalgray.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Voice AI for Automotive · voxopsai.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YClvl5 HD maps for self-driving cars. · lvl5.ai | acquired |
| 2024-09-01 | YCCuro Electric fleets park and charge anywhere with Curo · curocharging.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | AI for modern automotive dealerships · useclearline.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCIonworks Simulation software used by leading battery and automotive companies · ionworks.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBlink Same-day delivery for e-commerce companies in Europe. · blinklastmile.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Software for robotaxi operations. · passenger.ai | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCNimbus Tesla for city dwellers · nimbus.green | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCWeel GPS & dashcam smartphone app · weel.live | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRevoy Make diesel semi trucks hybrid-electric · revoy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCVersable AI powered product description enhancement for the auto parts industry · versableai.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | Building AI employees for car dealers · sandra-ai.com | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | Robots for vehicle maintenance. · rodeorobotics.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | The AI Operating System for Auto Shops. · trycarsignal.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCPalifer Predictive maintenance models for trains and heavy industry · palifer.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCFiix Fiix sends expert auto mechanics to your home, so you don’t have to… · fiix.io | acquired |
| 2012-01-01 | YCCarsabi Carsabi is the search engine for used cars · carsabi.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | Autonomous shuttles for campus-like environments. · auro.ai | acquired |
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.