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50 people built something like it. 5 are gone.
That is 11% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 3 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | YCRUUF Managed marketplace for solar in Latam · ruuf.cl | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Empowering Autism Care Providers to Go Independent · finnihealth.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | AI-powered care for seniors with chronic disease · kivohealth.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLittio Dollar banking for people in Latin America · littio.co | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YC222 the AI social facilitator for offline human to human interactions · 222.place | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCheqUPI India's first UPI wallet for foreign nationals and NRIs · cheq.money | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCPure Marketplace for Rare Coins & Precious Metals · collectpure.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | A new kind of creative company. · rubbrband.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCVendah Vendah is building a Faire-style marketplace for LATAM’s +50M… · vendah.com.br | still up |
| 2023-12-01 | getvibrato.com | unverified |
| 2023-01-01 | Less screen time, more life. · clearspace.org | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Search engine for trustworthy medical information. · medisearch.io | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCOneText Frictionless payments via SMS · onetext.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Automating lenders' interactions with the DMV · cardinalgray.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCEzDubs Real-time speech translation · ezdubs.ai | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCnunu.ai Building the first multimodal agents to play and test games. · nunu.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFinvest AI Wealth Manager · getfinvest.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | AI-native tax platform to save $1T+ for Americans · rally.tax | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCY/n Play your story · yn.app | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCType AI-native storytelling studio. · type.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Earn and redeem credit card points for free flights · pointhound.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFetchr The Personal Shopper in Your Pocket · fetchr.so | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCStuddy An AI math tutor for every student · studdy.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Don't die of heart disease. Empirical is the first AI-native heart… · empirical.health | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCUpfront A personal assistant for every homeowner · tryupfront.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCDecohere Real-time generative AI · decohere.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSanvivo Shopify for pharmacies in Europe · sanvivo.eu | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Read romance comics. · shortbread.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCGlade Build games at the speed of thought · gladestudio.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCTheya The world's simplest Bitcoin self-custody solution · theya.us | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Learn language with real-world content, at your level · readbean.app | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCScout Scout is an AI news aggregator that turns your role, industry, and… · thedailyscout.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCEnvelope Budgeting app with built-in banking · envelopebudgeting.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Get Paid for Family Caregiving · thecareoasis.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCMaxi AI Agent for your personal finances · usemaxi.app | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Program computers with natural language · magicloops.dev | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCrex.fit Automating nutrition tracking. · rex.fit | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCWebhound Long-horizon research agents · webhound.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCLifelike lifelike.app | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLinum type text, dream video · linum.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCChoppy! FAST FLAVORFUL PROTEIN · eatchoppy.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCOverlord AI Accountability Partner · overlord.app | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | DeFi for Everyone · rainmaker.nyc | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Tool and platform to create and sell webcomics · storyboarder.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCKhoj AI for humans · khoj.dev | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPair AI Reimagining education with short form video and AI · pairai.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCRoame Flight search engine using credit card points and miles · roame.travel | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSaatvy Root cause help for chronic conditions · saatvy.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCVaero AI for Human Writing · vaero.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | ai · trycoil.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Asset Light Chipotle for Africa · chowcentral.com | 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.