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16 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 7% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-01 | YCCentral Payroll, benefits, state compliance & other bullsh*t for startups · centralhq.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | Applied AI for workforce operations · firstwork.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCmalibou the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for French SMBs · malibou.co | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Helping America's businesses become employee owned · villagelabs.app | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Medical Record Retrieval with Zero Human Error · codeshealth.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Autonomous organizations without humans in the loop · andonlabs.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Open-source humanoid robots · kscale.dev | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | AI-voice agents that are indistinguishable from humans. · marrlabs.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCego AI applied research lab building synthetic sapience; human-like AI · egoai.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Applied AI Data Research Lab Encoding Human Expertise into Machines… · useocular.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCVeles CPQ for humans and agents · getveles.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | We help humans & agents pick tools via Independent Benchmarks · openbenchmarks.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCRelari Building dexterous robots that learn from human biomechanics · relari.ai | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | The multiplayer control plane for your software factory · humanlayer.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCDreamRP Tech and platforms for human creators and the entertainment industry · dreamrp.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCEndstack The complete, collaborative workspace for humans and agents · endstack.com | 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.