You asked about Clean Meat
34 people built something like it. 9 are gone.
That is 30% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 4 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | YCOffbeast We make plant-based steaks with an authentic texture · offbeast.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Shiok Meats is a cell-based clean shrimp company, the first of its… · shiokmeats.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.com | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCSegment Software and APIs to collect, clean, and control customer data. · segment.com | acquired |
| 2022-07-01 | macpaw.com | still up |
| 2023-08-10 | aerolite.dev | still up |
| 2021-11-20 | cleanvoice.ai | still up |
| 2022-04-06 | adrianmato.com | still up |
| 2022-05-30 | shopme.bio | unverified |
| 2018-06-01 | Building a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative. · gfi.org | still up |
| 2022-06-22 | anyexif.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAnakin One API to get clean data from any website for your AI agents at scale · anakin.io | still up |
| 2023-06-16 | discuit.net | moved |
| 2015-01-01 | YCCleanly Laundry & Dry Cleaning delivered. · cleanly.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | On demand provider of meat to households and food businesses · sendme.ng | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSOMATIC Bathroom cleaning robots for office buildings. · getsomatic.com | still up |
| 2022-02-09 | validkube.com | still up |
| 2021-02-28 | bengtan.com | still up |
| 2023-03-07 | yobulk.dev | gone |
| 2021-12-30 | hackerscroll.com | gone |
| 2022-06-12 | cleanupphotos.com | unverified |
| 2018-06-01 | Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production… · rebellyous.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAurabeat Providing clean, safe, virus free air for homes, buildings and cars · aurabeattech.com | still up |
| 2021-01-13 | datorss.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCElucify Elucify is an API that plugs into your CRM which automatically cleans… · getelucify.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCExec Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their… · iamexec.com | acquired |
| 2022-09-02 | timerpage.com | still up |
| 2022-08-28 | wizdata.io | gone |
| 2021-11-02 | officeroutine.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Tasty and scalable cultivated meat at price parity · orbillion.com | acquired |
| 2026-08-18 | meatbag.atomic14.com | unverified |
| 2023-09-23 | cleanclip.cc | still up |
| 2026-08-29 | vectorify.co | unverified |
| 2023-05-25 | manuelkehl.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | We are doing for seafood what Impossible did for meat · ordinaryseafood.com | gone |
| 2023-10-17 | goodbyemail.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBLUUMBIO We make bacteria and plants that clean up pollution. · bluumbio.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Open source software that cleans and transforms messy healthcare data. · tuvahealth.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCGlassjar Clean app for check writing · glassjar.co | gone |
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.