You asked about Election Tech
1,855 people built something like it. 257 are gone.
That is 16% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 208 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | Non-profit building open-source voting machines for US elections. · voting.works | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Political/civic tech helping progressive campaigns organize & mobilize · impactive.io | acquired |
| 2024-09-01 | Scaling Genomic AI for Embryo Selection · reticular.com | still up |
| 2009-06-01 | YCStripe Economic infrastructure for the internet. · stripe.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCCoinbase Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies. · coinbase.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Online engineering college for India. Learn technical skills & get… · skill-lync.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCRazorpay India's only full-stack financial solutions company for businesses. · razorpay.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCWave Mobile money app for Africa · wave.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCGroww Making financial services simple, transparent and delightful. · groww.in | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCAthelas Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems · athelas.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPodium Get more leads. Make more money. · podium.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCBrex Business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management software. · brex.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | Every shift, Covered. · clipboardworks.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCClear Fintech SaaS platform for invoices, taxes, wealth management & credit. · clear.in | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | We’re building the world’s bank payment network. · gocardless.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCKovi Making car ownership more inclusive, flexible and simple. · kovi.com.br | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCNewfront Modern insurance brokerage. · newfront.com | acquired |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | The 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. · humaninterest.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Unlocking the power of biotech with modern software for modern science · benchling.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHogaru Hogaru is a tech-enabled home services platform in Latin America. · hogaru.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCXendit Provides payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia · xendit.co | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCGuesty The management platform for the short term rental industry. · guesty.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCNabis Nabis is the largest licensed cannabis wholesale platform. · nabis.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCIronclad AI-powered contract management · ironcladapp.com | still up |
| 2022-11-23 | bugasura.io | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCLattice Modern people management platform. · lattice.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Data driven neobank for SMBs in LATAM · kapital.mx | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCAspire All-in-one Finance OS for businesses · aspireapp.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCZenefits HR for small businesses: onboarding, payroll and benefits. · zenefits.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLemFi Fair, simple and accessible financial services · lemfi.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Building the safety net of the future · pairteam.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCFAZZ All-in-one Finance for Every Southeast Asia Business · fazzfinancial.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCH1 Connecting stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem. · h1.co | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa. · flutterwave.com | still up |
| 2022-05-11 | himalayas.app | still up |
| 2021-07-06 | sidequestjobs.com | unverified |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHoum All-in-one real estate marketplace for Latin America · houm.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCTRM Labs TRM is building a safer world for billions of people. · trmlabs.com | still up |
| 2009-06-01 | YCWePay Payments for platform businesses. · wepay.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLegora The AI workspace for lawyers · legora.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | The SuperApp for neighbourhood merchants in Africa. · marketforce.io | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | The everything store for restaurants in LATAM. · frubana.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | We make healthcare in emerging markets affordable and accessible · getreliancehealth.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Mobile Energy Storage Technology · moxionpower.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | A mental health benefits platform for employers. · modernhealth.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCSendwave Instant, no fee international remittances. · sendwave.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSimetrik No code enterprise SaaS for financial control automation. · simetrik.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Manage your ledgers and avail Financial Services like Lending on your… · khatabook.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Food delivery service in Africa · beudelivery.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa · remedial.health | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCAjaib Consumer fintech for Indonesia · ajaib.co.id | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | We make robots for biologists. · opentrons.com | still up |
| 2006-06-01 | YCScribd World's largest online library. · scribd.com | 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.
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.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
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.