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2,058 people built something like it. 310 are gone.
That is 17% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 224 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | The 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. · humaninterest.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCLattice Modern people management platform. · lattice.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCZenefits HR for small businesses: onboarding, payroll and benefits. · zenefits.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | Transforming cities and rural areas through AV transit and technology · maymobility.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Global platform for employee engagement with rewards&flexible benefits · advantageclub.co | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCFountain High volume hiring made simple · fountain.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Modern employee benefits & health savings account (HSA) provider · livelyme.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOntop Simplifying hiring and payments for the global workforce · getontop.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCPave Plan, communicate, and benchmark your compensation in real-time. · pave.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCGigs The OS for Embedded Telecom · gigs.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | AI to engage employees, predict attrition and automate HR/IT support · infeedo.ai | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHumi Payroll, HR, and Health Benefits for Canada's SMB's · humi.ca | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Indonesia's #1 ATS & Job Portal to match top talents & companies · dealls.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCPlatzi Turning company knowledge into expert teams · platzi.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCHireArt Gives businesses everything needed to hire & manage W2 contractors. · hireart.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCpeopleCQ Employer backed payroll advances for employees in Egypt · peoplecq.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCWarp AI-native Employee Management Platform for High-Growth Companies · warp.co | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | The Smart Market for Institutional Investors · onechronos.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCFinch Finch is the Employment Data Platform · tryfinch.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJuicebox AI-powered talent sourcing for recruiters · juicebox.ai | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCOsmind Platform for breakthrough mental health research and treatment · osmind.org | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVitau Subscription pharmacy for patients with chronic diseases in LatAm. · vitau.mx | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCFond Rewards and recognition SaaS for HR leaders · fond.co | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFlo The talent platform for legal · joinflo.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPayflow A mobile app. It allows employees to get paid their salary on-demand. · payflow.es | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | RNA medicines for liver diseases · ochre-bio.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCSpott AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms · spott.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCBenepass Fintech for corporate compensation · getbenepass.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCEden Workplace software for people-centric companies. · edenworkplace.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | YCHigherMe Helping restaurant employers find & hire better employees faster · higherme.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCQuell Get fit fighting your way through a fantasy world. · playquell.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | AI talent platform to hire, manage, and grow your people · peoplebox.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCompUp Building a compensation graph to help companies optimise people spend · compup.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | AI solution that streamlines candidate screening and recruitment · talentropy.ai | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPlane #1 easiest-to-use payroll for startups · plane.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAscen EOR for the staffing industry · ascen.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAlex Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people. · alex.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHumanly We empower the world’s hiring teams to grow engaged, high-performing… · humanly.io | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCercli AI powered HR and Recruitment for people teams · cercli.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | A talent acquisition software built for data-driven recruiting teams. · hiresweet.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMindFi Transforming Mental Health for Corporate Asia · mindfi.co | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCPsylaris Psychotherapy through autonomous and personalized VR-sessions. · psylaris.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCBolto AI Powered All-In-One Payroll, HR + Recruiting · bolto.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCNestor Skills-based talent management solutions for a dynamic workforce. · nestorup.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCQuan End-to-end platform to improve wellbeing and team performance. · quanwellbeing.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCNebia Nebia is a breakthrough shower system, based on a premium experience,… · nebia.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | YCCentral Payroll, benefits, state compliance & other bullsh*t for startups · centralhq.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBrite Software that helps employees pick their employee benefits. · britebenefits.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | ModernLoop helps teams automate and streamline recruiting operations · modernloop.io | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | A digital well-being program to help people prevent or manage chronic… · breathewellbeing.in | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHappl Your personalised benefits and engagement platform for global teams · happl.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStafBook Rippling for Southeast Asia · stafbook.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Protecting your employees against online harassment · tallpoppy.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCBlair Financing education through Income Share Agreements · joinblair.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCafé Your Workplace Engagement Hub · at.cafe | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCHammr Rippling for the Construction Industry · hammr.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.
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.