You asked about Generative AI
3,984 people built something like it. 579 are gone.
That is 15% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. Half of the gone ones were last seen within 19 months of launching. 239 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-30 | thegist.ai | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCLeena AI We at Leena AI build a virtual assistant that answers employee's… · leena.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLegora The agentic operating system for legal work · legora.com | still up |
| 2023-02-21 | phind.com | unverified |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHumand All-in-one app for internal communication and HR · humand.co | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Jasper is a leader in creating content using Artificial Intelligence · jasper.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI to engage employees, predict attrition and automate HR/IT support · infeedo.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPibit.ai The fastest path from submission to better decisions. · pibit.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Power commerce photography with generative AI · photoroom.com | still up |
| 2023-06-27 | flux.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTavus Building the human layer of AI · tavus.io | still up |
| 2023-08-23 | gentrace.ai | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJuicebox AI Agents for Recruiting · juicebox.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCGovDash AI platform to win and run government contracts · govdash.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Contract and negotiation AI built for lawyers · draftwise.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLanded Generative AI for frontline worker hiring · gotlanded.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCVetRec AI Scribe for veterinarians. Saving time and improving patient care. · vetrec.io | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Orangewood builds amazing robots that people want. · orangewood.co | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSalient AI Servicing for Auto Lenders · trysalient.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Track & Boost Your Brand’s Visibility in AI Search · writesonic.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPlayAI Our mission is to make Voice AI accessible and useful to all. · play.ai | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLanceDB Open-source, serverless vectordb for production-scale generative AI · lancedb.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCTruewind AI-Powered Accounting · truewind.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | DreamWorld is a next-gen Minecraft with generative AI building · playdreamworld.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Virtualizing brick-mortar infrastructures of clinics w/ generative AI · ankr.us | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Making Anime Real · spellbrush.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCMixerBox AI Super-Apps to Live Easier | The anything anytime superapps… · mixerbox.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Operating System for Private Market Investors · vectorshift.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Generative AI powered Shopify for home service professionals · toplinepro.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCD-ID Enable creators and developers to generate realistic AI personas · d-id.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The most magical personal Voice-Led AI English Learning Buddy for Kids · sparkstudio.co | still up |
| 2023-03-08 | forethought.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCClueso Create beautiful videos & docs for any product or process in minutes · clueso.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The fastest way to ship airtight AI · openlayer.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDatrics Generative AI Healthcare Coding Automation · datrics.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCkapa.ai The fastest way to build AI assistants on technical content · kapa.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCOpen Enterprise AI customer support · open.cx | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCLemonBox AI-generated personalized nutrition solutions, built for you daily. · lemonbox.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFloworks Hire the best AI Sales employees | AI SDR | AI RevOps | AI EA · floworks.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCHenry Automating Deal Decks for Commercial Real Estate Brokers · henry.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCVector Advertising for the new internet · vector.co | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLangfuse Open source LLM engineering platform · langfuse.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | A.I. to create stunning fashion images for eCommerce. · alluresystems.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCAccend AI agents for commercial underwriting at banks and fintechs · withaccend.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZOKO Better Business on WhatsApp · zoko.io | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCSaturn Compliance and back office workflows for Wealth Managers. · saturnos.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCFlint Personalized learning built for schools · flintk12.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Automate security and privacy reviews · clearly-ai.com | still up |
| 2021-09-08 | unwonted.io | moved |
| 2023-01-29 | dystr.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Social Construct designs and assembles large apartment buildings
… · socialconstructco.com | gone |
| 2023-04-08 | chatgpt-prompt-apps.com | unverified |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCoLoop AI Copilot for insights & strategy · coloop.ai | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Automated SEO for Startups · rankscience.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCScispot The Best Data Infrastructure for Biotechs · scispot.io | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Agents For RFP and Questionnaire Response Automation · inventive.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSyncly Social listening for the video era · syncly.app | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCarnata AI workers for the logistics industry. · arnata.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI-native Operating System for Enterprise Ecommerce Companies · hypotenuse.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | AI SDET for mobile apps · mobileboost.io | 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.