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1,229 people built something like it. 366 are gone.
That is 35% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 191 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | Tech-powered women's wellness. · bellabeat.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | YCPebble Watch that helps you get shit done and limit the mayhem of… · getpebble.com | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | Automatic connects your car to the rest of your digital life. · automatic.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | Bluesmart makes smart luggage powered by an app to empower people to… · bluesmart.com | acquired |
| 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 |
| 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 The personal AI agent for Korea. · 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 |
| 2014-01-01 | We're making a smart, front door camera with intercom that lets you… · getkuna.com | acquired |
| 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 |
| 2010-06-01 | Business dashboards · leftronic.com | acquired |
| 2009-06-01 | Lockitron makes electronic locks you can control locally from your… · lockitron.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | Open-source humanoid robots · kscale.dev | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Thought-to-Language AI Models · mindportal.com | gone |
| 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 |
| 2025-09-01 | YCTornyol We build micro-drones that kill mosquitoes. · tornyol.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 |
| 2026-09-01 | Talk to your computer without talking · subvocal.company | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | YCHundred 100% automated inspection for consumer electronics parts · hundred.systems | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | Automating refurbishment of $1T in consumer electronics · reviserobotics.com | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | YCVexo An AI bracelet that remembers your day and acts before you ask. · vexoai.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | Graft Concepts makes unique iPhone cases and other mobile accessories · graftconcepts.com | gone |
| 2026-09-01 | YCCyclon a phone where AI is the interface · cyclon.ai | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction · antimattr.one | still up |
| 2009-06-01 | YCWakemate wakemate.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCWhyd We make a beautiful, great sounding, voice-controlled speaker. · whyd.com | gone |
| 2027-01-01 | YCLucebox Self-improving inference workstation · lucebox.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCKubeSail The Self-Hosting Company · kubesail.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCToymail Connected toys that enable two-way voice messaging between children… · toymail.co | gone |
| 2026-01-01 | Your own chef at home · meetmirabelle.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | Device tracks & monitors your car · drivepulseapp.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCZowPow Wireless toy game controllers for mobile games. · zowpow.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCLitHit Smart Target for Shooting Sports · lithit.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | We're building a tactile gaming controller for mobile phones. · milkshakelabs.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCSilver Low cost consumer device for toxin detection. · scansilver.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 |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCTruepill API-connected healthcare infrastructure. · truepill.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | 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.