You asked about Food Service Robots & Machines
37 people built something like it. 11 are gone.
That is 34% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 5 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | Remote labor for restaurants · biteninja.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCStrideQ Automated phone ordering system for restaurants · strideq.com | still up |
| 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 | Aviron transforms workouts with game-based exercise machines, making… · avironactive.com | still up |
| 2021-12-09 | paulbricman.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 |
| 2021-01-01 | Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists. · reshapebiotech.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPerfekto Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam · perfekto.mx | gone |
| 2021-06-25 | botwars.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOlaClick Restaurant Solution (E-commerce via WhatsApp + POS + CRM/Marketing) · olaclick.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Robots that build solar farms · chargerobotics.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2021-03-28 | usefooder.com | unverified |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVoosh Making Restaurants more data-driven! · voosh.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Marketplace for construction machines · machine26.com | still up |
| 2021-10-01 | peppersf.com | moved |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLocale Organic and gourmet high-protein meals, designed for longevity. · shoplocale.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Near Space Flying Machines · kalamlabs.in | 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 | YCBotBuilt We use robots to build houses. · botbuilt.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Helping food brands and retailers reduce food wastage · fountain9.com | acquired |
| 2021-05-21 | robotonlywebsite.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2021-01-01 | Building robots to automate commercial concrete construction. · rointech.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Longevity Nutrition Service · eatblueprint.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTaste Online marketplace for dinners shipped from great restaurants · gettaste.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCache Online convenience stores fulfilled by tiny, automated dark stores. · grabcache.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Technologies for scaling up cultured/clean meat production · micromeat.com | gone |
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.