You asked about International
22 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 11% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 3 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 | YCSendwave Instant, no fee international remittances. · sendwave.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCJeeves International banking infrastructure for global startups. · tryjeeves.com | still up |
| 2022-08-01 | public.law | still up |
| 2023-08-31 | atlantic.money | still up |
| 2021-12-28 | masswerk.at | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCODEXA AI Agent runs the entire international trade operation · codexa.com.br | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Helping businesses in emerging markets make pay their international… · capimoney.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCInfinity Business banking for cross-border SMBs & Startups · infinityapp.in | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCNovel Novel is your international business bank account · trynovel.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Furnished Co-living Apartments for International Students, here in… · unionapt.live | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCSable Mobile bank for credit-worthy, new-to-America internationals offering… · sablecard.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLevro Multicurrency account & international payments for businesses · levro.com | still up |
| 2021-03-09 | v2.docusaurus.io | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | The Localization Engineering Platform · lingo.dev | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCMoreta Payments made easy for international travelers. · moretapay.com | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCShor International payroll, built for founders · shorpay.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCxPay International Billing Ops, Sales Tax and Payments for SaaS businesses · xpaycheckout.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCQuetzal Simple, LLM-first translation and internationalization for software · getquetzal.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCnoHQ International contractor and multi country payroll · nohq.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCBackpack Marketplace to get stuff from overseas · backpackbang.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCZidisha Direct P2P lending across the international wealth divide. · zidisha.org | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCZipX We allow anyone in South East Asia to instantly order any product… · zipx.com | 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.