You asked about India
27 people built something like it. 6 are gone.
That is 25% 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 | Gusto for India · salarybox.in | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCzingbus Platform for bus travel across Indian cities · zingbus.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Building Job driven Virtual Tech University for India 🇮🇳 · algouniversity.com | 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 |
| 2021-06-01 | Helping Indians make better financial decisions. · marketfeed.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Building Chime for India · buenofinanceinc.com | acquired |
| 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 |
| 2021-04-16 | anchor.fm | moved |
| 2021-06-04 | varnan.in | still up |
| 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
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.
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.