You asked about Autonomous Trucking
87 people built something like it. 10 are gone.
That is 13% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 10 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | Self-driving semi trucks. · embarktrucks.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories · fluxauto.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCTeleo Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment · teleo.ai | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | Technology for Trucking · onswitchboard.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Autonomous trucks to fully automate long-haul freight shipping · marsauto.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Driverless Trucks, for real. · starsky.io | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | Driver co-pilot to make trucking more efficient · hypermile.ai | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YClvl5 HD maps for self-driving cars. · lvl5.ai | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles · hermes-robotics.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | iPhone-based driver monitoring for commercial fleets. · observantai.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCViaopt Uber pool for corporate trucking fleets · viaopt.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCCruise Self-driving cars. · getcruise.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | The autonomous revenue cycle management platform. · joincandidhealth.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Rose Rocket is ERP software for trucking companies. · roserocket.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | One-stop-shop for restaurants to operate and grow their business. · pidedirecto.mx | still up |
| 2022-02-09 | apps.shopify.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Making car ownership and management frictionless. · yoshimobility.com | still up |
| 2021-07-21 | foxglove.dev | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCVolansi Autonomous VTOL delivery solutions. · flyvoly.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | YCPyka Autonomous electric airplanes · flypyka.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCWarmly, [Acquired by HubSpot in 2026] Autonomous sales platform to auto-email… · warmly.ai | acquired |
| 2023-10-03 | wildmoose.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Foundation models and autonomous chambers for plant biology · urbankisaan.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSully.ai Autonomous team of AI agents that runs the entire hospital operations · sully.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Autonomous homebuilding factory for the $1.7 trillion housing crisis. · rentthebackyard.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Making all ships robots. · fleetzero.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Autonomous drones to help warehouses scan inventory. · corvus-robotics.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCGoLorry Mobile marketplace for inter-city trucking in India · golorry.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Autonomous offensive and defensive cybersecurity platform · codeant.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCPsylaris Psychotherapy through autonomous and personalized VR-sessions. · psylaris.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI-native Robotics · nexterarobotics.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCTerminal Plaid for Telematics Data in Commercial Trucking · withterminal.com | still up |
| 2023-11-28 | junglegym.ai | unverified |
| 2024-06-01 | YCTabula Autonomous Accounting Software · tabula.de | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCPaladin We deploy autonomous drones to 911 calls. Our software gives first… · paladindrones.io | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Autonomous surgical robots · andromedasurgical.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCZeit AI The autonomous data engineer for the mid-market · zeit-ai.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCCartage Autonomous freight coordination · cartage.ai | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on… · robby.io | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Autonomous robots for retails. · taobotics.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Autonomous organizations without humans in the loop · andonlabs.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Autonomous medical care · legionhealth.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Autonomous driving technology for farm tractors. · bearflagrobotics.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | Modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. · tankpayments.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCCaribou The autonomous tax firm · usecaribou.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCKrab Instant loans for trucking companies in India · krab.in | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | Autonomous patrol-boats for National Security · splash9.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond · cosmicrobotics.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCShone Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit. · shone.com | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | Superintelligent financial advisor · becomeautonomous.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCMindbase Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans… · mymindbase.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCPazi Platform where autonomous companies are built · pazi.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRownd Fully autonomous defense solutions for the global edge. · rownd.ai | still up |
| 2023-10-12 | tripleaxle.com | unverified |
| 2024-01-01 | Autonomously scaling environments · vibrantlabs.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCorgea Corgea finds, and fixes insecure code and packages autonomously. · corgea.com | still up |
| 2023-07-03 | autopack.ai | unverified |
| 2023-05-12 | chord.pub | 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.