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403 people built something like it. 93 are gone.
That is 25% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 36 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-01 | YCPowerUs LinkedIn for skilled blue-collar workers · powerus.de | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCWayUp Marketplace for employers to recruit college students and recent grads · wayup.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCAble India's Largest Placement Platform for Early Professionals · ablejobs.co | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCExtern Professional Experience Anytime, Anywhere. · extern.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHiration We help job seekers quickly create resumes that get 2X more interviews · hiration.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCWeave AI-assisted professional networking. · weave.in | gone |
| 2009-06-01 | YCJobspice jobspice.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | Programming courses for experienced engineers · codecrafters.io | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCMystro Mystro is an app that makes rideshare drivers up to 30% more money by… · mystrodriver.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCElpha Professional network for women · elpha.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSimplify Helping a billion people build their dream career · simplify.jobs | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFriz AI Social Media Manager · usefriz.com | acquired |
| 2024-06-01 | Match job seekers to roles at deep technology startups. · bitstoatoms.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Souffle Club:10x better LinkedIn alternative with profiles >> resumes · souffle.club | gone |
| 2026-06-01 | YCTsenta AI career agent that finds matching jobs & applies on your behalf · tsenta.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | YCLanyrd IMDB of conferences. · lanyrd.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Kid-friendly, at-home volunteer projects in a box, delivered bimonthly · alltruists.com | gone |
| 2022-05-05 | venturecapitalcareers.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Learning platform for job seekers with job applications automation · careerist.cc | still up |
| 2022-03-14 | cupid.careers | still up |
| 2023-03-01 | startupintel.dev | gone |
| 2021-03-22 | careervault.io | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCTruepill API-connected healthcare infrastructure. · truepill.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCGroww Making financial services simple, transparent and delightful. · groww.in | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | Every shift, Covered. · clipboardworks.com | still up |
| 2010-06-01 | Real-time visibility into critical apps and services all in one place. · pagerduty.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHogaru Hogaru is a tech-enabled home services platform in Latin America. · hogaru.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCChariot The world's first private mass transit service providing a commuting… · chariot.com | acquired |
| 2014-01-01 | Training patients and their families with health skills · noorahealth.org | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Building the safety net of the future · pairteam.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLemFi Fair, simple and accessible financial services · lemfi.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCPapa One-stop-shop for flexible family care · papa.com | still up |
| 2022-04-07 | spendwithukraine.com | still up |
| 2022-06-29 | superblocks.com | still up |
| 2021-07-06 | sidequestjobs.com | unverified |
| 2017-01-01 | We make healthcare in emerging markets affordable and accessible · getreliancehealth.com | still up |
| 2022-06-29 | humans.work | unverified |
| 2018-01-01 | A mental health benefits platform for employers. · modernhealth.com | still up |
| 2022-01-09 | movieofthenight.com | unverified |
| 2018-06-01 | Manage your ledgers and avail Financial Services like Lending on your… · khatabook.com | still up |
| 2022-06-15 | anonfriendly.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCGrin Mobility and payments platform for Latin America · ongrin.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCMiso We make booking services as easy as buying products online. · miso.kr | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa · remedial.health | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCNURX Medicine or testing kit, prescribed online and delivered to your door. · nurx.com | acquired |
| 2023-10-06 | rolepad.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCCareRev Seamlessly connecting healthcare facilities and professionals through… · carerev.com | acquired |
| 2022-07-19 | tranch.com | unverified |
| 2022-03-29 | hustleverse.io | moved |
| 2022-05-18 | comonetize.me | gone |
| 2021-05-17 | jobs.hackclub.com | unverified |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNourish Telehealth dietitians covered by insurance · nourish.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | Modern primary care via video and in-person · circlemedical.com | still up |
| 2022-04-07 | himalayas.app | still up |
| 2021-03-05 | relocate.me | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Private sector Healthcare.gov. · healthsherpa.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | hnresumetojobs.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.
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.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
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.