You asked about Autonomous Delivery
21 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 5% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | Food delivery service in Africa · beudelivery.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRider Modern parcel delivery for online sellers in Pakistan. · withrider.com | acquired |
| 2022-02-09 | apps.shopify.com | still up |
| 2022-02-16 | codegiant.io | still up |
| 2022-10-22 | sendfly.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCChowdeck On-demand food delivery for Africa · chowdeck.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Grocery Delivery in Pakistan · kravemart.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa · getfoodcourt.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Making all ships robots. · fleetzero.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Unleashing the potential of DNA and RNA based therapies using AI · whitelabgx.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBakool Group buying for Fresh in Indonesia's tier 2 cities · bakool.id | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Healthcare data infrastructure for next generation care delivery. · metriport.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCQUIK Building the operating system for business in LATAM · quikpago.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCOle Fashion shopping with delivery and return on demand · oleshop.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRownd Fully autonomous defense solutions for the global edge. · rownd.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCMindbase Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans… · mymindbase.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Managed Sales Email Delivery For Cold Outreach · lightmeter.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCQuinn Your biopharma team, from molecule design to portfolio strategy · quinnbio.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Growing micro-organs to find new drugs · rosebudbiosciences.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Your autonomous motion designer that turns every feature into a… · impractical.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCKeylika Redefining the Standard of Care for Iron Deficiency Anemia · keylika.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.
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.