You asked about Generative AI
712 people built something like it. 109 are gone.
That is 16% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 15 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-30 | thegist.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHumand All-in-one app for internal communication and HR · humand.co | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJuicebox AI-powered talent sourcing for recruiters · juicebox.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCGovDash AI platform to win and run government contracts · govdash.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLanceDB Open-source, serverless vectordb for production-scale generative AI · lancedb.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Virtualizing brick-mortar infrastructures of clinics w/ generative AI · ankr.us | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCFini Fini | Automate 80% of enterprise support with AI agents · usefini.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Liability insurance for generative AI and AI Agents · armilla.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCLayerup Agentic AI OS for Financial Services and Insurance · uselayerup.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCDart The work and agent management platform · dartai.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI-powered business matchmaking · namecard.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStrac Data Discovery, DLP, DSPM for SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI & Endpoints · strac.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBobidi Restaurant Loyalty Using Quiz · upswell.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Turn user feedback to product insights · monterey.ai | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCToko Learn English by speaking with an AI · tokotutor.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Building self-programming machines · mayalabs.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCWolfia We help security, legal and sales teams answer customer questions · wolfia.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCNophin AI Deal Screening Analyst for Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions · nophin.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAd Army Generate, iterate, and ship AI ad creatives faster · ad.army | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Helping realtors showcase the full potential of their properties · applydesign.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPhind AI search engine · phind.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCQuinn Your biopharma team, from molecule design to portfolio strategy · quinnbio.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCDioptra Automated contract review with AI · dioptra.ai | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | API for Retrieval Augmented Generation · superpowered.ai | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCAPSULE Buy anything you find on social media · shopcapsule.ai | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPoly Intelligent Personal Cloud Storage · poly.app | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI Sales Rep for Website Intent Signals · penguinai.app | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCDialect AI copilot for forms, questionnaires & RFX · usedialect.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCMercator AI-assisted data analytics · mercator.tech | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | AI agents to build B2B datasets · promptloop.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCTop Road Payments & analytics for apps in the OpenAI GPT Store · toproad.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCMidplane The safety layer between AI agents and your database · midplane.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Your autonomous motion designer that turns every feature into a… · impractical.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAndi AI Search for the Next Generation · andiai.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTypeLess AI messaging API for smarter, faster communication. · apps.apple.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Generative AI for administrative automation in healthcare · delfino.ai | still up |
| 2022-11-16 | notion.so | moved |
| 2022-02-07 | sha256algorithm.com | still up |
| 2022-11-02 | photoai.com | still up |
| 2022-09-27 | talk.quazel.com | moved |
| 2022-06-15 | softr.io | still up |
| 2022-07-18 | locofy.ai | still up |
| 2022-08-23 | pornpen.ai | gone |
| 2022-11-02 | fairmint.com | still up |
| 2022-01-30 | fahrrad-tools.de | still up |
| 2022-11-10 | air.inc | still up |
| 2022-03-11 | mage.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-11 | myamy.io | moved |
| 2022-11-03 | daily.dev | still up |
| 2022-02-22 | breakcold.com | still up |
| 2022-05-05 | supermeme.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-26 | divbyzero.com | still up |
| 2022-05-23 | getnora.page | gone |
| 2022-10-19 | palette.fm | still up |
| 2022-04-07 | spendwithukraine.com | still up |
| 2022-10-17 | lex.page | still up |
| 2022-07-01 | tailwindui.com | moved |
| 2022-06-14 | copywritingprompts.com | still up |
| 2022-02-08 | frase.io | still up |
| 2022-04-23 | thisaidoesnotexist.com | 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.
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.