You asked about Computer Vision
149 people built something like it. 24 are gone.
That is 18% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 14 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-24 | app.banana.dev | unverified |
| 2012-01-01 | Turn physical objects and environments into 3D models in seconds. · matterport.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | IP operating software for brands and content companies · marqvision.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Building the Operating System for B&M Retail using Deep Learning · focal.systems | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCTempo Live home fitness training powered by computer vision. · tempo.fit | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | AI company transforming enterprise physical security to prevent… · ambient.ai | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCMashgin Self-Checkout using Computer Vision. · mashgin.com | still up |
| 2022-07-26 | cvat.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCRoboflow 🖼️ Give your software the sense of sight. · roboflow.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Power commerce photography with generative AI · photoroom.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Superb AI provides end-to-end computer vision MLOps platform · superb-ai.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Document AI. One API Call. · veryfi.com | still up |
| 2023-11-28 | usezeroshot.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCOverview Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software · overview.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCTaiv AI-powered tech that makes business TV smarter, engaging, and… · taiv.tv | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCSkyways Creating a new form of air transportation to advance our civilization · skyways.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCCrowdAI CrowdAI is the world's leading no-code platform for vision AI · crowdai.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCautarc autarc is the agentic OS for energy installers. · autarc.energy | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMach9 AI CAD Software for Civil Engineering · mach9.ai | still up |
| 2022-07-19 | trackobject.xyz | unverified |
| 2021-05-27 | sbxrobotics.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCEventual Building the AI data engine for any modality and scale · daft.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | A.I. to create stunning fashion images for eCommerce. · alluresystems.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCerrion Video AI to automatically detect and respond to production line… · cerrion.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Building The Next Generation of Night Vision Devices · deepnight.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCaper Plug-and-play cashier-less retail powered by computer vision and AI · caper.ai | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | Database for AI · activeloop.ai | still up |
| 2021-09-07 | arthurdouillard.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | We create automation technology for the cannabis industry. · sortingrobotics.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | efference.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTenyks The World's Most Versatile Video Answering Engine · tenyks.ai | still up |
| 2021-07-21 | blog.roboflow.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Driver co-pilot to make trucking more efficient · hypermile.ai | acquired |
| 2025-09-01 | The AI drawing review platform for architects and engineers. · getstructured.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCScanbase The API for Diagnostic Test Analysis (COVID-19, FLU, RSV, STD,… · scanbase.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCTraces Transform your video monitoring with AI · traces.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | In-store analytics AI assistant to fix your retail stores · auravision.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOda AI Agent for Home Design · odastudio.ai | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Buid, test and deploy perception applications · standardcyborg.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCTule Help farmers make irrigation decisions with sensors / computer vision · tuletechnologies.com | acquired |
| 2025-01-01 | AI performance monitoring for factory workers · optifye.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Build better computer vision models by building better datasets · segments.ai | acquired |
| 2022-02-14 | universe.roboflow.com | unverified |
| 2017-01-01 | App that turns selfie photos into thousand emoji that look like you… · mirror-ai.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | ShapeScale is a personal 3D scanner and fitness tracker that… · shapescale.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | We generate synthetic data for computer vision models. · zumolabs.ai | gone |
| 2025-06-01 | Analyze any footage, without training a model · ondeckai.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Defect detection for manufacturing built from CAD and synthetic data. · bucket.bot | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCAllus AI Transforming manufacturing with our next-gen Vision Foundation Model · allus.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Turn your data into a deployed computer vision model · jidomaps.com | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | GitHub for visual data · labelflow.ai | gone |
| 2026-06-01 | Network for Physical AI Data Business · deepreach.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Synthetic data for better vision. · sbxrobotics.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCClipDrop Turn regular mobile photos into professional product visuals · clipdrop.co | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Single photo nutrition tracking. · snapcalorie.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Mobile app for CPG brands to connect to millions of stores globally · milkyway.ai | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Computer vision that makes the industrial workplace, safer · protex.ai | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | AI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time vision · openvector.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Helping realtors showcase the full potential of their properties · applydesign.io | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | Foundation models to automate x-ray analysis for radiologists · mecha-health.ai | 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.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
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.