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1,872 people built something like it. 263 are gone.
That is 16% 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
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.