You asked about International
18 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 13% 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 |
| 2022-06-01 | 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 |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLevro Multicurrency account & international payments for businesses · levro.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCSable Mobile bank for credit-worthy, new-to-America internationals offering… · sablecard.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | Furnished Co-living Apartments for International Students, here in… · unionapt.live | gone |
| 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
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.