You asked about Crypto / Web3
86 people built something like it. 25 are gone.
That is 30% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 4 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-14 | monitalks.xyz | still up |
| 2022-06-26 | findweb3.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCODEXA AI Agent runs the entire international trade operation · codexa.com.br | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAlterya Protecting Humans from Scams · alterya.dev | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPing The global neo-bank for contractors and freelancers · letsping.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBitstack All things money, with better money · bitstack-app.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCWeltio First LatAm W3 WealthTech for AutoInvesting in securities & crypto · weltio.com | gone |
| 2022-01-11 | getrichquick.me | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUpBanx Brex for D2C Brands and Content Creators in Indonesia · upbanx.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCypher Crypto Neo-Bank (WhatsApp moment for bank accounts) · cypherhq.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCApollo Payments & Loyalty Infrastructure · apollofirst.xyz | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Infrastructure powering stablecoin and digital finance · primevault.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPoko Seamless Fiat Payments for Web3 · pokoapp.xyz | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCArgo A social streaming platform powered by creators and fans · argo.la | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCRio LATAM’s largest stablecoin FX and liquidity provider · rio.trade | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Accelerate verifiable computing · argument.xyz | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCDecent Cross-chain routing + trading APIs. One-click transactions with any… · decent.xyz | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCStackup Stackup helps businesses manage their crypto assets. · stackup.fi | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBifrost Wills and Estate Management for Crypto · hapi.finance | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | Palantir for Web3 · blockscope.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Modern Investment Product for 100m underserved Europeans · pluto.markets | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSoon Automated sweep account, invest without the stress of speculating · soon.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBotin Investment super app for Latin America · botin.app | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCLyra Spend crypto anywhere online · paywithlyra.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Decentralized, anonymous, and accountable identity on Web3. · notebooklabs.xyz | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBunkyr Zero-Knowledge security without seed phrases or backup codes · bunkyr.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCashmere Crypto wallet for web3 startups · cashmere.finance | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHype Trade memecoins · hype.meme | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCEthosX The protocol for derivatives on blockchains · ethosx.finance | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPayfura Global payment gateway to buy/sell crypto · payfura.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAYC Fund AI-native crypto hedge fund · aycfund.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Multi-chain token data platform · simplehash.com | acquired |
| 2022-02-04 | cal.com | still up |
| 2022-06-29 | humans.work | unverified |
| 2022-01-23 | wagmipedia.xyz | unverified |
| 2022-04-28 | onjuno.com | gone |
| 2022-04-07 | crew3.xyz | moved |
| 2022-10-03 | continuum.xyz | unverified |
| 2022-01-05 | spacecadet.ventures | still up |
| 2022-06-20 | insquad.com | still up |
| 2022-03-29 | hustleverse.io | moved |
| 2022-07-11 | directual.com | still up |
| 2022-02-10 | blog.mozilla.org | still up |
| 2022-10-05 | hito.xyz | unverified |
| 2022-07-14 | hype.day | still up |
| 2022-10-21 | launchcaster.xyz | gone |
| 2022-01-02 | tokenaround.com | gone |
| 2022-10-16 | superintern.fun | gone |
| 2022-07-03 | notific.xyz | gone |
| 2022-05-27 | ramper.xyz | still up |
| 2022-06-04 | frens.money | unverified |
| 2022-10-20 | plaid.com | still up |
| 2022-03-01 | fweb3.xyz | unverified |
| 2022-07-21 | getmoni.io | still up |
| 2022-03-17 | huntd.tech | still up |
| 2022-06-20 | haha.me | still up |
| 2022-06-08 | invezo.com | unverified |
| 2022-07-13 | PHEmber Fund's NFT and Metaverse Indexes — No gas fees and low investment mins, your keys, your crypto app.ember.fun | still up |
| 2022-03-05 | flipstory.flippyfinance.com | still up |
| 2022-04-08 | coinflix.xyz | gone |
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.