You asked about India
26 people built something like it. 6 are gone.
That is 26% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 3 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Building India's fast food empire · eatnino.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Corporate Card solution for Indian businesses · karboncard.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCGroMo App for independent agents to sell financial products in India · gromo.in | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We make instant offers to buy homes in India · ivy.homes | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCKodo Corporate card & spend management platform for Indian startups · kodo.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVerak Better Business Insurance for MSMEs in India · verak.in | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Building Job driven Virtual Tech University for India 🇮🇳 · algouniversity.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCzingbus Platform for bus travel across Indian cities · zingbus.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Gusto for India · salarybox.in | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBimaplan Affordable insurance for the next billion Indians · bimaplan.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | India’s first and only marriage super app · betterhalf.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCKoshex Automating wealth creation for 400M Indian millennials · koshex.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAkudo India's first learning-focused neobank for teenagers · akudo.in | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Building Chime for India · buenofinanceinc.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Helping Indians make better financial decisions. · marketfeed.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTilt Bringing the joy of cycling to millions of Indians · tilt.bike | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Pinduoduo for India · gobillion.co | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCKrab Instant loans for trucking companies in India · krab.in | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YourQuote is India's largest writing platform · yourquote.in | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCJoinSub India's first aggregator and provider of local business subscriptions · joinsub.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Community for 100M Indian Financial Market Traders & Investors · front.page | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | We treat women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in India · veerahealth.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCashBook Ramp for Indian Businesses - UPI Wallets for Employee Expenses · cashbook.in | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTechBiz MIS on mobile for SMB's in India · techbiz.app | acquired |
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.