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1,224 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 |
| 2011-06-01 | 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 |
| 2011-01-01 | YCPebble Watch that helps you get shit done and limit the mayhem of… · getpebble.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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2009-06-01 | Lockitron makes electronic locks you can control locally from your… · lockitron.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Thought-to-Language AI Models · mindportal.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Open-source humanoid robots · kscale.dev | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Delightful robots · tuesdaylabs.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 |
| 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 |
| 2026-09-01 | YCVexo An AI bracelet that remembers your day and acts before you ask. · vexoai.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | Automating refurbishment of $1T in consumer electronics · reviserobotics.com | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | YCCyclon a phone where AI is the interface · cyclon.ai | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCLitHit Smart Target for Shooting Sports · lithit.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | Graft Concepts makes unique iPhone cases and other mobile accessories · graftconcepts.com | gone |
| 2009-06-01 | YCWakemate wakemate.com | gone |
| 2027-01-01 | YCLucebox Self-improving inference workstation · lucebox.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCZowPow Wireless toy game controllers for mobile games. · zowpow.com | gone |
| 2026-09-01 | voice-first hardware interface for human-agent interaction · antimattr.one | still up |
| 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 |
| 2019-06-01 | YCKubeSail The Self-Hosting Company · kubesail.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCWhyd We make a beautiful, great sounding, voice-controlled speaker. · whyd.com | gone |
| 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 |
| 2007-01-01 | YCTwitch A global community creating the future of live entertainment. · twitch.com | acquired |
| 2005-06-01 | YCReddit The frontpage of the internet. · reddit.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
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.