You asked about E-Commerce
13 people built something like it. 3 are gone.
That is 27% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | YCNumeral The AI-native sales tax solution. · numeral.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCYuma AI The AI Support Agent for Ecommerce · yuma.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCProglix B2B Marketplace for Steel Raw Materials · proglix.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCMovley Your e-commerce brand's product quality control department. · movley.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCConverge All-in-one marketing measurement for B2C · runconverge.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCOneText Frictionless payments via SMS · onetext.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFetchr The Personal Shopper in Your Pocket · fetchr.so | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | Neobank for e-commerce businesses · spendruby.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCRevamp AI-Powered Customer Segmentation for eCommerce · getrevamp.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | AI to increase payment acceptance and reduce fraud for businesses · corgilabs.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCBooth AI Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce · booth.ai | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | AI Powered Product Discovery · rubberduckylabs.io | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCViddy A new way to create landing pages that is video-native. · viddyapp.io | acquired |
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.