You asked about Creator Economy
11 people built something like it. 0 are gone.
That is 0% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | YCFinnix Financial technology solutions for Indonesian creative businesses · finnix.id | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUpBanx Brex for D2C Brands and Content Creators in Indonesia · upbanx.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPoko Seamless Fiat Payments for Web3 · pokoapp.xyz | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Software for tattoo artists and studios · venue.ink | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTaro Help high-growth tech companies hire strong engineers · jointaro.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAd Army Generate, iterate, and ship AI ad creatives faster · ad.army | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJamble Live shopping for collectibles in Brazil · jambleapp.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCStar Make games with AI - no coding required · buildwithstar.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCKashin Credit for the emerging economy in Latam · kashin.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCArgo A social streaming platform powered by creators and fans · argo.la | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLizza AI-assitant for managing creator-brand partnerships · lizza.link | 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.