You asked about Home Automation
530 people built something like it. 110 are gone.
That is 24% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 67 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-01 | Digital-native home painting franchise · craftwork.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCTributi Tax filing automation for individuals in Latam. · tributi.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCastle Castle manages rental homes using automation and on-demand labor. · entercastle.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCDeako We make beautiful connected light switches that allow you to control… · deako.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCTechmate A technology concierge for your home. We provide on-demand support… · techmate.com | acquired |
| 2025-09-01 | Humanoid robots that do your chores for the price of an iPhone! · piggyrobotics.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Automating home care agency operations with AI · sagecare.ai | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCBravi The AI operating system powering home services businesses · bravi.app | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | YCVestris AI native platform for real estate closings · vestris.ai | still up |
| 2022-02-17 | bardeen.ai | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHogaru Hogaru is a tech-enabled home services platform in Latin America. · hogaru.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCZapier The easiest way to automate your work. · zapier.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. · ginkgobioworks.com | acquired |
| 2022-11-15 | retool.com | still up |
| 2022-11-03 | daily.dev | still up |
| 2022-04-15 | automate-notion.com | moved |
| 2019-06-01 | Building the safety net of the future · pairteam.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLAIKA Online pets supplies for Latin America with over 4000 products & 20… · laika.com.co | still up |
| 2022-11-15 | fn12.com | still up |
| 2022-04-22 | launchhouse.com | still up |
| 2023-04-24 | rocket.jonh.net | still up |
| 2023-11-28 | dobb-e.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCTovala A smart-oven-paired subscription meal service. · tovala.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSimetrik No code enterprise SaaS for financial control automation. · simetrik.com | still up |
| 2023-01-25 | automatisch.io | still up |
| 2022-07-29 | docscube.io | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCMiso We make booking services as easy as buying products online. · miso.kr | still up |
| 2022-02-17 | socialchamp.com | still up |
| 2022-02-24 | paperless.io | still up |
| 2022-08-23 | crawlee.dev | still up |
| 2023-08-10 | aerolite.dev | still up |
| 2022-10-05 | fundhomes.com | still up |
| 2010-01-01 | YCCardpool cardpool.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOphelia Medication & support to beat opioid addiction from home · ophelia.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCSnappr Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation · snappr.com | still up |
| 2023-08-01 | magicloops.dev | still up |
| 2022-02-03 | testsigma.com | still up |
| 2022-07-29 | potential.app | still up |
| 2022-03-31 | threado.com | unverified |
| 2022-07-25 | ab.bot | gone |
| 2022-02-09 | niftypm.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCTennr Fast, Transparent Patient Experiences · tennr.com | still up |
| 2010-06-01 | YCHomejoy platform for home service professionals · homejoy.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | 3D printing beautiful, high-quality, and sustainable homes. · mightybuildings.com | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | Software platform for in-home healthcare · versemedical.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Vertical AI for Audit & Advisory Firms · fieldguide.com | still up |
| 2023-12-08 | sol-1.org | gone |
| 2022-07-21 | getopenflow.com | gone |
| 2022-06-16 | uibakery.io | still up |
| 2022-08-05 | rocketride.io | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Robotic Process Automation and Document Processing Platform · electroneek.com | still up |
| 2022-10-10 | bugbug.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRemi Simplifying roofing for homeowners, roofers and enterprises. · remihq.com | still up |
| 2022-04-19 | meta-api.io | unverified |
| 2022-07-30 | albato.com | still up |
| 2022-04-01 | clovercities.com | still up |
| 2022-03-11 | stairsfinancial.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCTempo Live home fitness training powered by computer vision. · tempo.fit | still up |
| 2022-02-16 | glass.photo | still up |
| 2022-04-05 | homesheet.co | 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.
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.