You asked about Food Service Robots & Machines
224 people built something like it. 51 are gone.
That is 26% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 26 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-06-01 | YCPresto Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants · presto.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | Pop Meals is a restaurant chain without chefs. All recipes are… · popmeals.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Remote labor for restaurants · biteninja.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Great tasting produce, farmed around the corner · beanstalk.farm | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCMobydish MobyDish, a tech-enabled service, allowing anyone to place a catering… · mobydish.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2015-06-01 | YCteaBOT A robot that makes tea! · teabot.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | We make robots that make sandwiches. · bistrobot.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCStrideQ Automated phone ordering system for restaurants · strideq.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPearl The future of office coffee. Keurig convenience meets cafe quality. · getpearlcoffee.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale. · shinkei.systems | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCDoorDash Restaurant delivery. · doordash.com | acquired |
| 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 |
| 2012-06-01 | Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup · instacart.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCChaldal chaldal.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCCalii Full-stack grocery delivery in LatAm · calii.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCTovala A smart-oven-paired subscription meal service. · tovala.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Food delivery service in Africa · beudelivery.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | We make robots for biologists. · opentrons.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 |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLezzoo Lezzoo is an on-demand delivery Superapp for Iraq. · lezzoo.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Zerocater is revolutionizing how companies feed their employees · zerocater.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | Empowering restaurants and small food makers to ship nationwide. · goldbelly.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Building a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative. · gfi.org | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCChowdeck On-demand food delivery for Africa · chowdeck.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Turning food waste into Biochar to remove CO2 from the atmsophere · releaf.africa | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCChari B2B e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional proximity stores · chari.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Aviron transforms workouts with game-based exercise machines, making… · avironactive.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa · getfoodcourt.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Grocery Delivery in Pakistan · kravemart.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | To make food a renewable resource, for everyone · inevitabletech.com | gone |
| 2014-01-01 | YCGobble Daily meal delivery, personalized to your tastes. · gobble.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCShef Shef is a Marketplace for Homemade Food · shef.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSkio Subscriptions for Shopify · skio.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | Taking from 1 to 100 the premade food industry in LATAM · todoscomemos.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFitHub The one-stop shop for healthy products · fithub.com.co | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCFlaviar Try-at-home service for fine spirits · flaviar.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Cheese and dairy products from plant-derived dairy proteins · nobellfoods.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | Meals Delivered in 10 Minutes · spoonrocket.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | YCSoylent Soylent is a simple, nutritious, and affordable food that possesses… · soylent.com | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | YCCaviar Uber for food. · trycaviar.com | acquired |
| 2014-06-01 | YCZoomer Outsourced, high volume food delivery.
· zoomerdelivery.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBoostly Premier growth platform for restaurants · boostly.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOrchata Groceries delivered in 20 min in Latinamerica · orchata.com | gone |
| 2011-01-01 | Order ahead for pickup · crunchbase.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLineLeap LineLeap gets customers to the fun, faster. · lineleap.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCuboh We help restaurants manage their online orders. · cuboh.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCFancy Essentials delivered in 30 minutes. · fancyapp.live | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPositive B2B supplier of fresh/healthy packaged food · positive.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Juicy marbles makes thick juicy and marbled plant based steaks. · juicymarbles.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | We license brands for delivery and pick-up · purpleplate.co | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHeyfood Doordash for Africa · heyfood.africa | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Transforms how grocery stores buy highly perishable foods. · shelfengine.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCMobot Mobot is a QA-as-a-service platform using actual mechanical robots · mobot.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Making all ships robots. · fleetzero.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | On demand provider of meat to households and food businesses · sendme.ng | gone |
How this compares
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.
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.