You asked about E-commerce
261 people built something like it. 64 are gone.
That is 29% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 41 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-01 | Household needs, from bread to everything. · breadfast.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCDoorDash Restaurant delivery. · doordash.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup · instacart.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCMeesho Democratizing internet commerce for everyone in India · meesho.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSuper Super is the first and leading Indonesian social commerce platform · superapp.id | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCKovi Making car ownership more inclusive, flexible and simple. · kovi.com.br | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCWhatnot Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S. · whatnot.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCShipper Southeast Asia’s e-commerce logistics and enablement platform · shipper.id | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCSkydropX Logistic Management System for E-commerce & Retail in Mexico. · skydropx.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCShipBlu Amazon Level Logistics for eCommerce Companies in MENA. · shipblu.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Customizable beauty for hair, skin, and body care products. · functionofbeauty.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa · remedial.health | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | Digital trade finance and B2B commerce company · dripcapital.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | IMPORTANT: The original YC founders are no longer involved with this… · teespring.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCJusto Helps restaurants take online orders directly from customers · getjusto.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | The SMS revenue platform for e-commerce merchants · postscript.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRider Modern parcel delivery for online sellers in Pakistan. · withrider.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCVetcove Powering the animal health supply chain. · vetcove.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCclicOH Amazon-like logistics for e-commerce companies in Latam · clicoh.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEstoca The Logistics Operating System for E-commerce in LatAm · estoca.com.br | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | One-stop-shop for restaurants to operate and grow their business. · pidedirecto.mx | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | Empowering restaurants and small food makers to ship nationwide. · goldbelly.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | India's Telemedicine Platform & Online Pharmacy for Dermatology Care · clinikally.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Modern ecommerce for petite women · shortstorybox.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCNumeral The AI-native sales tax solution. · numeral.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAlokai Frontend Platform for eCommerce · alokai.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCJoy The platform for all your life events. · withjoy.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Power commerce photography with generative AI · photoroom.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | YCQuartzy Marketplace for life science supplies. · quartzy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCFleek A B2B marketplace for wholesale second hand fashion · joinfleek.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCChari B2B e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional proximity stores · chari.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | The easiest way to create a beautiful, mobile optimized website. · strikingly.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCThread Thread makes it incredibly easy to dress well, using stylists and AI · thread.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Courtyard turns shopping into entertainment with instant liquidity · courtyard.io | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCShogun Shogun empowers brands to create exceptional ecommerce experience. · getshogun.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Grocery Delivery in Pakistan · kravemart.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCRinsed Software to run car washes moving to a monthly subscription model · rinsed.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | YCTalkable Online store referrals. · talkable.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCEasol Shopify for experiences · easol.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSkio Subscriptions for Shopify · skio.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | YCBinks A zero inventory, zero returns factory-to-consumer apparel company · getbinks.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCLumi Packaging for online brands. · lumi.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | Taking from 1 to 100 the premade food industry in LATAM · todoscomemos.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFitHub The one-stop shop for healthy products · fithub.com.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We help automotive aftermarket brands to supply and sell parts online · alephee.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Global online sales platform · cartpanda.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCBurrow A design brand creating innovative, award winning furniture. · burrow.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCBIK Agentic AI CRM for ecommerce · bik.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Reselling marketplace for social media entrepreneurs in Pakistan · markaz.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCVendoo We help online sellers manage a sales business on multiple platforms. · vendoo.co | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Fashionable college, NBA and MLS apparel. · hypeandvice.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Faire for Indonesia · credibook.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | Shoptiques.com lets you shop the world's best local boutiques online. · shoptiques.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCXberts Xberts.com is a community-based marketplace for global hardware… · xberts.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCCARUPI CARUPI is the world's 1st managed P2P marketplace for used cars · carupi.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Shopify for Beauty and Wellness businesses in Latam · agendapro.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCWareIQ Amazon-prime like logistics for eCommerce companies in India · wareiq.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | The operating system powering ecommerce fulfillment · flow.space | still up |
How this compares
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
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.