You asked about E-commerce
16 people built something like it. 6 are gone.
That is 43% 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 |
| 2023-03-08 | about.imma.app | gone |
| 2023-07-13 | claros.so | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCMovley Your e-commerce brand's product quality control department. · movley.com | gone |
| 2023-06-21 | product-module.medusajs.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 |
| 2023-06-01 | YCRevamp AI-Powered Customer Segmentation for eCommerce · getrevamp.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Neobank for e-commerce businesses · spendruby.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCBooth AI Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce · booth.ai | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | AI to increase payment acceptance and reduce fraud for businesses · corgilabs.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCViddy A new way to create landing pages that is video-native. · viddyapp.io | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | AI Powered Product Discovery · rubberduckylabs.io | 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.