You asked about Banking and Exchange
17 people built something like it. 4 are gone.
That is 27% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCLemFi Fair, simple and accessible financial services · lemfi.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDjamo Challenger Bank for consumers in French speaking Africa. · djamo.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCProspa Banking for businesses · getprospa.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCtrii One stop investment solution for retail investors in Latam · trii.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Plaid for Southeast Asia · finantier.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTAG TAG is the First Digital Bank (Chime/Revolut/N26) for Pakistan · tagme.pk | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNextPay The digital bank for small businesses in the Philippines. · nextpay.world | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLevro Multicurrency account & international payments for businesses · levro.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTruss Banking for construction · trusspayments.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMono Plaid for Africa, but better. · mono.co | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMendel Workflows to empower employees to spend while finance stay in control · mendel.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBroad The multicurrency account and card for Brazilians · broad.app | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Accelerating the shift to a more transparent economy · purposefinance.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSlash Banking, corporate cards, stablecoin payments – available globally. · slash.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCStriga Compliant Crypto and Banking Infrastructure · striga.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDayra Data-driven embedded Financial Services for Gig Workers · dayra.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCIvella Banking and savings products designed for couples · ivella.com | gone |
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.