You asked about Infrastructure
449 people built something like it. 49 are gone.
That is 13% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 63 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2009-06-01 | YCStripe Economic infrastructure for the internet. · stripe.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCTruepill API-connected healthcare infrastructure. · truepill.com | acquired |
| 2013-01-01 | YCFivetran The leader in automated data movement · fivetran.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCXendit Provides payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia · xendit.co | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCScale AI Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI · scale.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | YCFirebase Build and grow iOS, Android, and Web apps. · firebase.com | acquired |
| 2008-01-01 | YCHeroku Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud. · heroku.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCTeleport The Infrastructure Identity Company · goteleport.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Corgi is building an AI financial infrastructure company · corgi.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCBitrise Hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery for mobile apps · bitrise.io | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | The platform for building and operating time series applications. · influxdata.com | still up |
| 2010-06-01 | YCDocker Software development platform. · docker.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | YCApollo Apollo helps engineering teams accelerate delivery · apollographql.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCZeitview Inspection software for renewable energy & sustainable infrastructure · zeitview.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCMezmo Observability platform to control all of your log data · mezmo.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | The cloud-native, operational database built for speed and scale. · singlestore.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAlpaca API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform · alpaca.markets | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCCoreOS Open source tools of modern distributed systems. · coreos.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEncord The data layer for physical AI · encord.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCJeeves International banking infrastructure for global startups. · tryjeeves.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCBitmovin Powers OTT online video providers with video developer tools. · bitmovin.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | Protocol Labs makes internet protocols: IPFS, Filecoin, and more. · protocol.ai | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCMomentus The space infrastructure services company · momentus.space | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | Customer data collection, safeguarding, & activation for healthcare · freshpaint.io | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSupabase Build in a weekend. Scale to millions. · supabase.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPaystack Modern payments infrastructure for Africa · paystack.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Tools & infra to build and scale high-quality blockchain applications. · quicknode.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCR2 Embedded lending infrastructure · r2.co | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCAIOS Building AI-native infrastructure for the next era of care. · aiosmedical.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCCortex Cortex is the Internal Developer Portal eliminating “developer tax”… · cortex.io | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCMux Video infrastructure for developers · mux.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCArmory Continuous Deployment at any scale, for all developers. · armory.io | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Identity Verification API for Emerging Markets · prembly.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRDash AI Powered Construction Management Software · rdash.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTavus Building the human layer of AI · tavus.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRootly AI-native on-call and incident response carefully crafted to help… · rootly.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCBitnami The App Store for Server Software · bitnami.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPylon Infrastructure management software for water & electricity companies · pylonump.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCRamani We're building financial infrastructure for Africa's supply chains · ramani.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEnode Energy Orchestration Platform · enode.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCBland AI The enterprise platform for AI phone calls · bland.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | The best way to build Voice AI apps · assemblyai.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCTermii Termii is an AI-native reliability infrastructure company. · termii.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Data Versioning, Data Pipelines, and Data Lineage · pachyderm.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCAella Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across Africa. · aellaapp.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLendflow Embedded lending infrastructure for software companies · lendflow.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCAnjuna Anjuna enabled organizations to trust any infrastructure · anjuna.io | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCHeru Tax Automation Infrastructure · heru.app | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCEasyPost The shipping infrastructure of the internet. · easypost.com | still up |
| 2008-06-01 | YCCloudant NoSQL Database-aaS. Acquired by IBM in 2014. Now IBM Cloud Data… · cloudant.com | acquired |
| 2011-01-01 | iOS porting · apportable.com | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | YCCompose We make it easy to run databases.
PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB,… · mongohq.com | acquired |
| 2006-01-01 | YCClustrix clustrix.com | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | YCRealm Better data structures = no DB. · realm.io | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCFly.io Run full stack apps close to your users. · fly.io | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPaces Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure · paces.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDyte Real-time audio & video SDKs, ready to launch 🚀 · dyte.io | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | Real-time. Big data. PostgreSQL · citusdata.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | Sunfolding builds next generation infrastructure for solar farms. By… · sunfolding.com | gone |
How this compares
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.