You asked about Gaming
15 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 13% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-10 | tomoclub.org | still up |
| 2022-06-21 | akedo.app | moved |
| 2022-03-17 | bonsaidesk.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCNovig America's #1 Sports Trading App · novig.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCFello Grow money and win $1000 every week by saving and playing games · fello.in | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Connecting the world by simulating it · gymclass.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Turn intuition into insights, in minutes · reforgedlabs.com | still up |
| 2022-11-16 | lostgamer.io | unverified |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUNISON Live between worlds, in UNISON, using the headset we're building! · in-unison.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Prediction market of India · betteropinions.in | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKoala Minecraft for Teachers · teachwithkoala.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPoko Seamless Fiat Payments for Web3 · pokoapp.xyz | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStatus Sims but Social Media · statusai.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCMindbase Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans… · mymindbase.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Creating genre-defining multiplayer VR games. · ruffnauts.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCStar Make games with AI - no coding required · buildwithstar.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAlma Gamified mobile banking app where people can win $1M every Wednesday · myalmafi.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.