You asked about Education
17 people built something like it. 3 are gone.
That is 20% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-10 | tomoclub.org | still up |
| 2022-05-05 | skill-focus.com | unverified |
| 2022-10-06 | nocode.tech | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAntWalk An employee up-skilling platform for fast growing companies · antwalk.com | gone |
| 2022-08-22 | fundingfyre.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2022-05-18 | pickcode.io | 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 |
| 2022-01-01 | Web-app | investment education and analysis tools for retail investors · stockunlock.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | All-in-one re-entry & workforce development training platform · emergecareer.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We teach UX/UI design and then help people get great jobs. · avocademy.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTaro Help high-growth tech companies hire strong engineers · jointaro.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCToko Learn English by speaking with an AI · tokotutor.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCDarsel Chatbot teaching K12 math in developing countries · darsel.tech | still up |
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.