You asked about Creator Economy
66 people built something like it. 11 are gone.
That is 18% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 6 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTrendpop Discover trends as they happen · trendpop.com | acquired |
| 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 |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAd Army Generate, iterate, and ship AI ad creatives faster · ad.army | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Local creators for local businesses · trynearby.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCKaiten Find culinary products and experiences from great makers everywhere · onkaiten.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCWabi We are Shopify for the $15B creator economy in LATAM · wabi.build | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJamble Live shopping for collectibles in Brazil · jambleapp.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCPursuit Revlo helps broadcasters on Twitch engage and monetize their fan… · revlo.co | acquired |
| 2026-06-01 | YCGrocalo AI brain for creators that runs their social content · grocalo.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCFlick We Handle AI. You Direct Films. · flick.art | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | AI media creation platform for creators and developers · magichour.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPair AI Reimagining education with short form video and AI · pairai.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCFlowbo Pipe for online businesses · flowbo.co | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFigments Building worlds at technological inflection points · plotdrive.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | Tool and platform to create and sell webcomics · storyboarder.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Virtual events for remote teams · miniexhibitions.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Marketplace enabling social commerce for brands and content creators. · globalbelly.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCStar Make games with AI - no coding required · buildwithstar.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Our platform enables creators to build experiences, games, and worlds… · pocketworlds.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCHubla All-in-one platform for creators to sell courses and subscriptions · hub.la | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCKashin Credit for the emerging economy in Latam · kashin.app | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | The only end-to-end crowdfunding platform built for today’s creators · backerkit.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Better financial services for creators · trykarat.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCJABU B2B payments, transforming Africa's cash economy · gojabu.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Software for collaborating with content creators and influencers · popularpays.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | YCBeacons An AI-powered, all-in-one business platform for content creators · beacons.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Helping creators monetize · buymeacoffee.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAppX AppX helps social media creators launch their own mobile apps. · appx.co.in | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCD-ID Enable creators and developers to generate realistic AI personas · d-id.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCKinside Powering the $648b Care Economy · kinside.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | YCsync. AI lipsync tool for video content creators · sync.so | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCJumpcut Helping creators go viral and build businesses. · jumpcut.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCArgo A social streaming platform powered by creators and fans · argo.la | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCStipop Monetization platform for character creators · studio.stipop.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLizza AI-assitant for managing creator-brand partnerships · lizza.link | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Foundation Model for Human Attention · creatorml.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCPillar All-In-One Creator Store · pillar.io | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Meet other creators. Get daily matches. Find brand deals. · swipehouse.co | acquired |
| 2026-06-01 | AI-native procurement services for the physical economy · spaceflow.tech | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Accelerating the shift to a more transparent economy · purposefinance.com | gone |
| 2026-01-01 | YCSponge Financial infrastructure for the agent economy · paysponge.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCPaloma Digital transformation for real economy businesses · getpaloma.ai | 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.