You asked about Infrastructure
42 people built something like it. 4 are gone.
That is 11% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 5 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | YCEncord The data layer for physical AI · encord.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRootly AI-native on-call and incident response carefully crafted to help… · rootly.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTavus Building the human layer of AI · tavus.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPylon Infrastructure management software for water & electricity companies · pylonump.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEnode Energy Orchestration Platform · enode.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLendflow Embedded lending infrastructure for software companies · lendflow.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDyte Real-time audio & video SDKs, ready to launch 🚀 · dyte.io | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHitPay Full-stack payments infrastructure for growing APAC businesses · hitpayapp.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNash Nash is the digital logistics infrastructure for commerce · usenash.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSigNoz Open source alternative to DataDog · signoz.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCFormance Open Source Infrastructure for the Financial Internet · formance.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCauthzed Authorization Infrastructure securing AI at OpenAI, Zoom, & more · authzed.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Subscription infrastructure & paywall experimentation for mobile apps · superwall.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSpruceID SpruceID lets users control their data across the web. · spruceid.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMach9 AI CAD Software for Civil Engineering · mach9.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOpenCode The open source AI coding agent · opencode.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The Work Number for LatAm · burodeingresos.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCScispot The Best Data Infrastructure for Biotechs · scispot.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCStriga Compliant Crypto and Banking Infrastructure · striga.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSvix Enterprise ready webhooks service, open-source and in the cloud · svix.com | still up |
| 2021-03-29 | canopyservicing.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMystic Low latency API to run and deploy ML models · mystic.ai | still up |
| 2021-09-29 | railway.app | moved |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHUBUC Global Card Issuing and Payment Processing Engine · hubuc.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCDots 💸 Developer friendly drop in payouts infrastructure · usedots.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPipekit Pipekit scales data & CI pipelines for enterprises · pipekit.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFlux Cross border Payments infrastructure for internet businesses and… · iflux.app | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSitenna Compound B2B SaaS for modern infrastructure to deploy and manage sites · sitenna.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCArpio Recover from any outage in 10 minutes or less. · arpio.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSatsuma Reliable blockchain indexing & querying for web3 engineering teams. · satsuma.xyz | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCumbuca Bare-metal access to Brazil's Open Finance and Pix systems · cumbuca.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTrue3D Building the next generation of visual media · true3d.com | still up |
| 2021-08-02 | bakup.io | unverified |
| 2021-06-01 | The complete production quality platform. AI-powered E2E testing,… · artillery.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The medical record & infrastructure stack for digital health companies · akutehealth.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCamp A Nouns DAO governance client · nouns.camp | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCWarrant Authorization and access control as a service. · warrant.dev | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNimbus Nimbus reduces Datadog costs by more than 60% without Manual Effort · nimbus.dev | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | The solution for fine-grained access control in web3 · slashauth.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCGalaxy launchpointhq.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Analytics for builders. Record and query billions of datapoints with… · scratchdata.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOllama Get up and running with large language models. · ollama.com | still up |
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.