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15 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 15% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-01 | YCPump.co The Costco for cloud is here 🔥🔥 · pump.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCofactr Cloud pre-factory logistics and procurement for electronics · cofactr.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | A scalable, cloud-native Perforce and Git alternative · diversion.dev | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Visually design and manage cloud infrastructures. · brainboard.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStrac Data Discovery, DLP, DSPM for SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI & Endpoints · strac.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | 10x-1000x faster compute for Neural Network training · strongcompute.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHypaHub A Cloud-Based Bioinformatics and AI Platform · hypahub.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | No-code data curation for LLM fine-tuning and evaluation. · airtrain.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBeam AI-Native Cloud Platform · beam.cloud | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Run compute-intensive apps in a browser · jamsocket.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Deploy secure, scalable cloud infrastructure in minutes not days · massdriver.cloud | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRavion The agent-native cloud infrastructure platform for AWS. · ravion.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Bioinformatics pipelines in the cloud · flowdeploy.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPoly Intelligent Personal Cloud Storage · poly.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | An easier way to deploy and manage cloud apps · nullstone.io | 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.