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672 people built something like it. 165 are gone.
That is 27% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. Half of the gone ones were last seen within 19 months of launching. 54 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCSlash Banking, corporate cards, stablecoin payments – available globally. · slash.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Plaid for Southeast Asia · finantier.co | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNextPay The digital bank for small businesses in the Philippines. · nextpay.world | 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 |
| 2021-07-12 | obsidian.md | still up |
| 2021-01-02 | petapixel.com | still up |
| 2021-01-20 | vim.so | moved |
| 2021-02-08 | clerk.dev | moved |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTractian Physical AI for asset-heavy industries · tractian.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLemFi Fair, simple and accessible financial services · lemfi.com | still up |
| 2021-06-14 | routinedb.com | unverified |
| 2021-03-25 | themes.vscode.one | still up |
| 2021-10-12 | visionzeroreporting.com | still up |
| 2021-08-25 | thishashcollisionisnotporn.com | gone |
| 2021-06-23 | multiverse.plus | unverified |
| 2021-11-16 | budibase.com | still up |
| 2021-12-08 | htwins.net | still up |
| 2021-04-08 | iwishtherewas.app | unverified |
| 2021-06-01 | YCYummy The everything app for LATAM · yummysuperapp.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVendease Where restaurants in Africa buy food supplies · vendease.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDjamo Challenger Bank for consumers in French speaking Africa. · djamo.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2021-06-24 | 3dasd.com | gone |
| 2021-04-17 | bef.no | unverified |
| 2021-03-17 | wiki.dendron.so | still up |
| 2021-04-20 | manuzoid.com | still up |
| 2021-06-02 | yare.io | still up |
| 2021-11-20 | cleanvoice.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Global platform for employee engagement with rewards&flexible benefits · advantageclub.co | still up |
| 2021-03-09 | diahook.com | moved |
| 2021-01-20 | sundayy.app | gone~28mo |
| 2021-02-03 | ytt-tech.com | unverified |
| 2021-04-07 | kaboomjs.com | still up |
| 2021-05-10 | django-sql-dashboard.datasette.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | IP operating software for brands and content companies · marqvision.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCOnebrief Onebrief makes military headquarters run seamlessly · onebrief.com | still up |
| 2021-07-20 | writtenrealms.com | still up |
| 2021-04-22 | dbgate.org | moved |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCyble Cyble - World’s First Intelligence-Driven, AI-Native Security… · cyble.com | still up |
| 2021-02-06 | you-tldr.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOntop Simplifying hiring and payments for the global workforce · getontop.com | still up |
| 2021-05-09 | shelf.so | still up |
| 2021-08-20 | duedilly.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNovatr Online cohort based courses for architects, engineers and designers… · novatr.com | still up |
| 2021-05-13 | hexo.press | still up |
| 2021-03-14 | critter.camera | still up |
| 2021-12-06 | app.milkvideo.com | unverified |
| 2021-11-27 | mood2movie.com | still up |
| 2021-08-06 | papertime.app | gone |
| 2021-04-21 | info.utradea.com | still up |
| 2021-05-12 | csvbox.io | still up |
| 2021-08-17 | tara.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEncord The data layer for physical AI · encord.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCToku Account Receivables Platform for Latin American Enterprises · trytoku.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | One-stop-shop for restaurants to operate and grow their business. · pidedirecto.mx | still up |
| 2021-10-06 | indiepaper.me | gone |
| 2021-09-21 | 7guis.bradwoods.io | still up |
| 2021-02-10 | screenstab.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.