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14 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 10% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 4 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | YCsync. AI lipsync tool for video content creators · sync.so | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCWuri App to read fiction stories as visual novels with images, videos,… · wuri.in | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCOverlap Multimodal AI agents for video · overlap.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCSonauto Create hit songs with AI · sonauto.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCRemade AI-native canvas for creative workflows. · remade.ai | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCTypa The content engine that wins attention and drives growth. · typa.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | A recommendation system for the Internet · browserbuddy.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | Self-improving content bank for marketing · useresonance.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | YCFocal AI video creation tool for TV shows and movies · focalml.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Remix any song into any style · soundry.ai | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCPalmier Video editor built for AI · palmier.io | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI media creation platform for creators and developers · magichour.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | GenAI Interactive story. Creator write fictions 10x faster. · storioai.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | Turn your agent into a professional video editor · diffusion.studio | 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.