You asked about Human Resources
164 people built something like it. 20 are gone.
That is 14% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 21 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCGusto Provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team · gusto.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 |
| 2015-06-01 | YCGo1 A learning platform that enables you to train your staff or customers. · go1.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Helloverify is a background screening platform (Checkr for India). · helloverify.ae | 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 |
| 2018-06-01 | YCUBITS Learning Hub for companies in Latam · ubits.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHumand All-in-one app for internal communication and HR · humand.co | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCLever Talent Acquisition Suite that combines ATS + Talent CRM · lever.co | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Global platform for employee engagement with rewards&flexible benefits · advantageclub.co | 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 |
| 2021-06-01 | YClapzo Lattice for Latam with personalized learning and development · lapzo.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCWorkpay Payroll, compliance, benefits, and Employer of Record services for… · myworkpay.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAshby All-in-one recruiting platform that empowers hiring excellence in… · ashbyhq.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCWorkRamp The All-in-One Learning Platform · workramp.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLocalyze Global mobility platform for companies and employees · localyze.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCRuna Automating payroll for Latin America. · runahr.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | The people, management, and culture operating system for your startup. · qulture.rocks | acquired |
| 2012-01-01 | YCFond Rewards and recognition SaaS for HR leaders · fond.co | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCMesh Performance management platform that fits the way you work · mesh.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPayflow A mobile app. It allows employees to get paid their salary on-demand. · payflow.es | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHumaans AI-Powered HRIS for high performing teams · humaans.io | 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 |
| 2021-06-01 | YCDeed Making it easy for employees to donate and volunteer with good causes. · joindeed.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Gusto for India · salarybox.in | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCompUp Building a compensation graph to help companies optimise people spend · compup.io | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCImpraise Enable managers to create an effective work environment for their team · impraise.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | AI talent platform to hire, manage, and grow your people · peoplebox.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBrioHR All-in-one HR management platform for SMEs · briohr.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Learn from the experts at your company. · togetherplatform.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCVinco Retaining employees in LatAm via education · vincoed.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | AI solution that streamlines candidate screening and recruitment · talentropy.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCYouTeam We make it easy for startups to hire engineers. · youteam.io | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPlane #1 easiest-to-use payroll for startups · plane.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMindFi Transforming Mental Health for Corporate Asia · mindfi.co | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Technology to create fast, visual indexes of people and organizations. · namesandfaces.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCNestor Skills-based talent management solutions for a dynamic workforce. · nestorup.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCBolto AI Powered All-In-One Payroll, HR + Recruiting · bolto.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCQuan End-to-end platform to improve wellbeing and team performance. · quanwellbeing.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Org design and workforce planning platform to drive org transformation · agentnoon.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStafBook Rippling for Southeast Asia · stafbook.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCHickory Hickory turns your employees into experts. · hickorytraining.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCompgun Sales commission software that grows revenue. · compgun.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHappl Your personalised benefits and engagement platform for global teams · happl.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | Dashboard for companies to manage immigration for their employees. · teleborder.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCDisclo Health disclosure and accommodation management platform · disclo.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCUnsaddl education benefits and leave of absence management · unsaddl.com | acquired |
| 2025-01-01 | YCYouShift The OS for hospital workforce management · you-shift.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Protecting your employees against online harassment · tallpoppy.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2024-06-01 | Rippling for seasonal workers · firstwork.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPeakPath Smartwatch powered coaching to improve teams sustainable performance · peakpath.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCZoios. Help start- and scale-ups excel at People, Culture and Performance. · zoios.io | still up |
How this compares
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.