You asked about Autonomous Delivery
34 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.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | One-stop-shop for restaurants to operate and grow their business. · pidedirecto.mx | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCShipBlu Amazon Level Logistics for eCommerce Companies in MENA. · shipblu.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCYummy The everything app for LATAM · yummysuperapp.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2021-07-21 | foxglove.dev | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories · fluxauto.ai | still up |
| 2021-07-31 | paperdelivery.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSully.ai Autonomous team of AI agents that runs the entire hospital operations · sully.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNash Nash is the digital logistics infrastructure for commerce · usenash.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAdaptyv We're building fully automated labs for protein engineering · adaptyvbio.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Using the immune system to cure disease · parallel.bio | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTitipku Super Hyperlocal Marketplace for SMEs in Indonesia · titipku.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Discovering drugs that target the DNA regulome · talus.bio | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Security Delivery Platform to orchestrate AI agents for Service… · contraforce.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLocale Organic and gourmet high-protein meals, designed for longevity. · shoplocale.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Autonomous medical care · legionhealth.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We make injections as easy as pushing a button! · pirouettepharma.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The foundation for the next era of biology · outputbio.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Multi-targeted therapeutics to treat complex diseases · harmonicdiscovery.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Programmable biology company for psychoactive effect design · mindstate.design | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHaystack Delivery Analytics for Software Teams · usehaystack.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | World's fastest and most optimal route optimization engine · logisticsos.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBlink Same-day delivery for e-commerce companies in Europe. · blinklastmile.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles · hermes-robotics.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Developing milk-inspired therapeutics for infectious diseases · matrubials.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The dynamic single-cell analysis company · cellchorus.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Semi-Autonomous Diagnostics for Emergent Care · cairehealth.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMembo Groceries fresher than a farmer’s market, delivered to you (EU) · membo.ee | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCache Online convenience stores fulfilled by tiny, automated dark stores. · grabcache.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTaste Online marketplace for dinners shipped from great restaurants · gettaste.com | gone |
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.