You asked about Food
27 people built something like it. 10 are gone.
That is 43% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 4 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVendease Where restaurants in Africa buy food supplies · vendease.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCChari B2B e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional proximity stores · chari.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFitHub The one-stop shop for healthy products · fithub.com.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Juicy marbles makes thick juicy and marbled plant based steaks. · juicymarbles.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPerfekto Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam · perfekto.mx | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOlaClick Restaurant Solution (E-commerce via WhatsApp + POS + CRM/Marketing) · olaclick.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Remote labor for restaurants · biteninja.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVoosh Making Restaurants more data-driven! · voosh.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLocale Organic and gourmet high-protein meals, designed for longevity. · shoplocale.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Direct Ordering Software for Restaurants · tablevibe.co | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Patent-pending enzymes to break down common dietary triggers · fodzyme.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Healthy organic food that creates a positive impact · swadesiway.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Helping food brands and retailers reduce food wastage · fountain9.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Tasty and scalable cultivated meat at price parity · orbillion.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Building the next generation food ingredient champion. · planet-a-foods.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Increasing restaurant profitability through our AI Operating System · bytekitchen.io | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMembo Groceries fresher than a farmer’s market, delivered to you (EU) · membo.ee | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCache Online convenience stores fulfilled by tiny, automated dark stores. · grabcache.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Longevity Nutrition Service · eatblueprint.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCStrideQ Automated phone ordering system for restaurants · strideq.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTaste Online marketplace for dinners shipped from great restaurants · gettaste.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.com | gone |
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.