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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | YCAntWalk An employee up-skilling platform for fast growing companies · antwalk.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSkillza Skillza builds simple tools for teachers and schools in MEA · skillza.co | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | We provide live after-school tutoring to K-12 students in Vietnam · marathon.edu.vn | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKoala Minecraft for Teachers · teachwithkoala.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCMySivi MySivi - AI English Speaking Practice App · mysivi.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUnsaddl education benefits and leave of absence management · unsaddl.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | Programming courses for experienced engineers · codecrafters.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | All-in-one re-entry & workforce development training platform · emergecareer.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Web-app | investment education and analysis tools for retail investors · stockunlock.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTaro Help high-growth tech companies hire strong engineers · jointaro.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | We teach UX/UI design and then help people get great jobs. · avocademy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCDarsel Chatbot teaching K12 math in developing countries · darsel.tech | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCToko Learn English by speaking with an AI · tokotutor.com | 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.