You asked about Housing and Real Estate
430 people built something like it. 104 are gone.
That is 27% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 49 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | YCGuesty The management platform for the short term rental industry. · guesty.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHoum All-in-one real estate marketplace for Latin America · houm.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCSnapdocs digital mortgage closing · snapdocs.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSomos Internet for the urban developing world. · somosinternet.co | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | YCZeus Tech-enabled property manager focused on corporate rentals; Acquired… · zeusliving.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | 3D printing beautiful, high-quality, and sustainable homes. · mightybuildings.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | We underwrite and insure house rentals in Latam · moradauno.com.mx | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCObie Moving Investment Property Insurance Forward · obieinsurance.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCInnov8 We provide co-working offices to startups, freelancers and SMEs in… · innov8.work | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | YCCuldesac We build cities for people, not cars. · culdesac.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCClau The real estate superapp for Mexico · clau.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCUpEquity UpEquity gives homebuyers more certainty and power. · upequity.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | We make it easier for real estate to sell properties and mortgages. · vecindario.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | We make instant offers to buy homes in India · ivy.homes | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Home Inspections, Simplified · inspectify.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCMudafy The LatAm tech-enabled real estate broker to buy and sell houses. · mudafy.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | AI-Powered Building Management · vergesense.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | ZiffyHomes is managed corporate housing for white collar employees in… · ziffyhomes.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCastia Built Rewards for Latam. Pay Rent and get benefits. · castia.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | A better way to buy a home · openlistings.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | Autonomous homebuilding factory for the $1.7 trillion housing crisis. · rentthebackyard.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | End-to-end commercial real estate transaction platform · propreturns.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCREZI Rent Better · rentrezi.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Green Canopy NODE builds sustainable homes fast. · greencanopynode.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAtmos The entire homebuilding process, all online · buildatmos.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPulppo Shopify for Real Estate Agents in LATAM · pulppo.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHomeRoom We Rent Your Property by the Room. You earn 50% more Rent. · livehomeroom.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCNaborly A credit bureau for the renting generation. · naborly.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCViya Mobile first apartment rentals for LatAm · viyaliving.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHent Hent is helping land lot developers to better manage their sales… · hent.com.br | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHOMLI Sell your home without brokers · thehomli.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCTolemi Data integration & insights for state and local governments · tolemi.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | We pioneer solutions to end the global housing crisis by empowering… · newstoryhomes.org | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHomebase Personalized rent-to-own real estate financing using technology in SEA · gethomebase.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Investment management platform for real estate · cashflowportal.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCRavti Software to track, manage, and procure HVAC for commercial real… · ravti.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | Social Construct designs and assembles large apartment buildings
… · socialconstructco.com | gone |
| 2012-01-01 | YCMyVR The open platform for the vacation rental industry. · myvr.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | We help residential property managers eliminate vacancy. · tenantturner.com | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | YChypcloud A tech-enabled commercial mortgage broker. hypcloud allows property… · hypcloud.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | Homestead is a real estate development platform for homeowners · myhomestead.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | Financing Southeast Asia's ~$1 trillion housing backlog · expressbuilding.ph | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCZeroDown Find beautiful homes · zerodown.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | Furnished Co-living Apartments for International Students, here in… · unionapt.live | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | AI-native HOA Management Company · assemblyhoa.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCastle Castle manages rental homes using automation and on-demand labor. · entercastle.com | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | YCRentobo The easiest way to find a tenant.
Rentobo is a tool that makes it… · rentobo.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | The Complete Listing Toolkit for the New Era of Real Estate · disclosures.io | acquired |
| 2013-06-01 | Direct real estate investing marketplace · realcrowd.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSakneen Shopify for Real Estate Developers · sakneen.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | TANGObuilder automates structural engineers jobs. · tangobuilder.com | gone |
| 2009-06-01 | YCRentHop Apartment rental marketplace · renthop.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCAlude We offer free software that automates bureaucracy for real-estate… · alude.com.br | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Easiest way to set appointments with real estate leads · smartalto.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCJupe Just add land · jupe.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCTrusty Limitless Real Estate · trustyhomes.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCKopa Find furnished rentals and compatible housemates for 1-12 month stays · kopa.co | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Sourcing investment real estate · quantierra.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCMonthli Monthli is the first marketplace for homeowner associations. We… · monthli.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | Shopify for Homebuilders · buildwithfoundation.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.
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.