You asked about Creator Economy
96 people built something like it. 17 are gone.
That is 19% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 6 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-19 | influencers.club | still up |
| 2022-03-03 | presailor.com | unverified |
| 2019-01-01 | YCExly One stop shop for creators to launch, manage & grow their knowledge… · exlyapp.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCEasol Shopify for experiences · easol.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCBeek Leading audio subscription platform for Spanish content and creators · beek.io | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCTagMango Monetisation tool for the Indian creator economy · tagmango.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCLaylo The CRM powering iconic musicians and events · laylo.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Scale new user acquisition with YouTube Creators · makrwatch.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUpBanx Brex for D2C Brands and Content Creators in Indonesia · upbanx.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCFinnix Financial technology solutions for Indonesian creative businesses · finnix.id | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Performance-Optimized Influencer Marketing at Scale · 1stcollab.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTrendpop Discover trends as they happen · trendpop.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPoko Seamless Fiat Payments for Web3 · pokoapp.xyz | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCReacher We automate creator marketing for the world's largest brands · reacherapp.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCDots 💸 Developer friendly drop in payouts infrastructure · usedots.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Software for tattoo artists and studios · venue.ink | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCArgil The video generation engine for the creator economy · argil.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCJitter Fast and simple animation tool on the web 💫 · jitter.video | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTaro Help high-growth tech companies hire strong engineers · jointaro.com | acquired |
| 2025-01-01 | YCawen awen translates intent into exceptional visuals through conversation · awen.ai | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCKoyal Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform · koyal.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2026-06-01 | Local creators for local businesses · trynearby.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAd Army Generate, iterate, and ship AI ad creatives faster · ad.army | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCKaiten Find culinary products and experiences from great makers everywhere · onkaiten.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJamble Live shopping for collectibles in Brazil · jambleapp.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCWabi We are Shopify for the $15B creator economy in LATAM · wabi.build | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCPursuit Revlo helps broadcasters on Twitch engage and monetize their fan… · revlo.co | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | Marketplace enabling social commerce for brands and content creators. · globalbelly.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCFlowbo Pipe for online businesses · flowbo.co | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Virtual events for remote teams · miniexhibitions.com | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | YCFlick We Handle AI. You Direct Films. · flick.art | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFigments Building worlds at technological inflection points · plotdrive.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | AI media creation platform for creators and developers · magichour.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Tool and platform to create and sell webcomics · storyboarder.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPair AI Reimagining education with short form video and AI · pairai.com | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCGrocalo AI brain for creators that runs their social content · grocalo.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCStar Make games with AI - no coding required · buildwithstar.com | still up |
| 2021-05-12 | build.mmm.page | still up |
| 2021-08-27 | metameme.app | still up |
| 2021-03-25 | themes.vscode.one | still up |
| 2022-06-06 | yep.com | unverified |
| 2022-06-08 | bueno.art | still up |
| 2022-11-18 | questoapp.com | unverified |
| 2022-01-06 | kit.creatorstack.com | gone |
| 2022-06-28 | burb.co | still up |
| 2022-02-17 | callin.com | unverified |
| 2022-01-13 | thousandfaces.club | still up |
| 2022-10-28 | eurekaa.io | still up |
| 2022-03-22 | creatorkit.com | still up |
| 2023-02-23 | ingestai.io | unverified |
| 2022-07-18 | goodprofile.me | still up |
| 2022-02-09 | creatorclub.com | gone |
| 2022-04-08 | coinflix.xyz | gone |
| 2022-05-30 | shopme.bio | unverified |
| 2022-03-16 | vokal.co | still up |
| 2022-06-15 | coqui.ai | unverified |
| 2022-09-16 | reflio.com | unverified |
| 2022-03-25 | web3creators.com | still up |
| 2022-06-28 | squadcast.fm | 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.
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.