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1,209 people built something like it. 361 are gone.
That is 35% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 188 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | Tech-powered women's wellness. · bellabeat.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCBoosted Simple, fun, and fast electric vehicles. · boostedboards.com | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPetcube Petcube is on the mission to improve lives of pets and pet owners… · petcube.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | Automatic connects your car to the rest of your digital life. · automatic.com | acquired |
| 2011-01-01 | YCPebble Watch that helps you get shit done and limit the mayhem of… · getpebble.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | Bluesmart makes smart luggage powered by an app to empower people to… · bluesmart.com | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | We're creating the loudest battery-driven speaker on the market · soundboks.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Fat Llama is the first fully insured peer-to-peer rental marketplace.… · fatllama.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCQuell Get fit fighting your way through a fantasy world. · playquell.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCircular Subscription consumer electronics for Asia · nowcircular.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCProxy Smart ring digital wallet · proxy.com | acquired |
| 2013-06-01 | YCSenic Simple Controls for Sonos, Philips Hue and other Smart Home products · senic.com | acquired |
| 2025-01-01 | YCPickle Where your life context becomes understanding. · pickle.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We go all out to Build the Smartest AI-Enabled Cameras! · avairsense.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCUpgraded Upgraded helps retailers and carriers sell devices on subscription. · getupgraded.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCLumoid We are a try before you buy service for consumer electronics. · lumoid.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | YCVanhawks We are making the smart carbon fibre commuting bike and platform for… · vanhawks.com | acquired |
| 2009-06-01 | Lockitron makes electronic locks you can control locally from your… · lockitron.com | acquired |
| 2010-06-01 | Business dashboards · leftronic.com | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | We're making a smart, front door camera with intercom that lets you… · getkuna.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Thought-to-Language AI Models · mindportal.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Open-source humanoid robots · kscale.dev | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | YCTornyol We build micro-drones that kill mosquitoes. · tornyol.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCInnate Personal AI Robots · innate.bot | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | ShapeScale is a personal 3D scanner and fitness tracker that… · shapescale.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Delightful robots · tuesdaylabs.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCGreentoe "Name Your Price" for products · greentoe.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | YCFort Strength Tracking Wearable · fort.cx | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | AI for security cameras · visualone.tech | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | Automating refurbishment of $1T in consumer electronics · reviserobotics.com | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | Talk to your computer without talking · subvocal.company | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCToymail Connected toys that enable two-way voice messaging between children… · toymail.co | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | Graft Concepts makes unique iPhone cases and other mobile accessories · graftconcepts.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCZowPow Wireless toy game controllers for mobile games. · zowpow.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCWhyd We make a beautiful, great sounding, voice-controlled speaker. · whyd.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | Device tracks & monitors your car · drivepulseapp.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCLitHit Smart Target for Shooting Sports · lithit.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCKubeSail The Self-Hosting Company · kubesail.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | Your robot chef · meetmirabelle.com | still up |
| 2009-06-01 | YCWakemate wakemate.com | gone |
| 2026-09-01 | voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction · antimattr.one | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCSilver Low cost consumer device for toxin detection. · scansilver.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | We're building a tactile gaming controller for mobile phones. · milkshakelabs.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Household needs, from bread to everything. · breadfast.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCDoorDash Restaurant delivery. · doordash.com | acquired |
| 2009-01-01 | YCAirbnb Book accommodations around the world. · airbnb.com | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup · instacart.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCChaldal chaldal.com | still up |
| 2005-06-01 | YCReddit The frontpage of the internet. · reddit.com | acquired |
| 2007-01-01 | YCTwitch A global community creating the future of live entertainment. · twitch.com | acquired |
| 2011-01-01 | Platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. · goatgroup.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCTruepill API-connected healthcare infrastructure. · truepill.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSuper Super is the first and leading Indonesian social commerce platform · superapp.id | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Every shift, Covered. · clipboardworks.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCClear Fintech SaaS platform for invoices, taxes, wealth management & credit. · clear.in | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | We’re building the world’s bank payment network. · gocardless.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.
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.