You asked about Automotive
46 people built something like it. 9 are gone.
That is 25% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 10 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 |
| 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 |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCAlchemy Nanotechnology-enabled coatings for automotive and defence sectors · alchemynano.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2024-01-01 | YCToma AI for Underserved Industries · toma.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Autonomous trucks to fully automate long-haul freight shipping · marsauto.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCCarma The AI Operating System For Modern Fleets. · joincarma.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCEntangl Find & resolve issues in data center engineering & operations using AI · entangl.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 |
| 2016-06-01 | Driverless Trucks, for real. · starsky.io | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is a B2B company that is developing… · openmotors.co | gone |
| 2026-01-01 | YCRevion Intelligence for Automotive Operations · revion.inc | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Next-generation, modular electric vehicles · olympianmotors.com | 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 |
| 2024-09-01 | YCCuro Electric fleets park and charge anywhere with Curo · curocharging.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Voice AI for Automotive · voxopsai.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Automating lenders' interactions with the DMV · cardinalgray.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YClvl5 HD maps for self-driving cars. · lvl5.ai | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | Software for robotaxi operations. · passenger.ai | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCIonworks Simulation software used by leading battery and automotive companies · ionworks.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI for modern automotive dealerships · useclearline.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBlink Same-day delivery for e-commerce companies in Europe. · blinklastmile.com | 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 |
| 2012-01-01 | YCCarsabi Carsabi is the search engine for used cars · carsabi.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCFiix Fiix sends expert auto mechanics to your home, so you don’t have to… · fiix.io | acquired |
| 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 |
| 2015-06-01 | Autonomous shuttles for campus-like environments. · auro.ai | acquired |
How this compares
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.