You asked about Cashierless Checkout
10 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 25% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 | YCMashgin Self-Checkout using Computer Vision. · mashgin.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Order ahead for pickup · crunchbase.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCWibond Affirm for LATAM · wibond.co | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCaper Plug-and-play cashier-less retail powered by computer vision and AI · caper.ai | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | YCInokyo We bring physical stores to the digital age with cashierless checkout. · inokyo.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | AI-powered checkout for retail. · standard.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | One-click checkout and AI sales assistant for LatAm. · comprarapida.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCArrow Modern Checkout Platform for D2C brands in Southeast Asia · arrowcheckout.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Selfycart - let's grocery shoppers scan items and checkout on their… · selfycart.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Encarte is building 1-click checkout for all online stores. · heycanopy.com | still up |
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.