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305 people built something like it. 55 are gone.
That is 20% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 34 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 | Next-gen blood testing to provide 1000x more data to pharma companies · correliabio.com | gone |
| 2025-06-01 | Implantable microchips and AI for cattle monitoring · nexa.farm | acquired |
| 2026-06-01 | Lightning fast chips with hardcoded AI models · lamb-labs.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCGitLab A complete DevOps platform delivered as a single application. · gitlab.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Rebuilding healthcare with AI at the core · akidolabs.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCTRM Labs TRM is building a safer world for billions of people. · trmlabs.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | 'Figma/Canva for scientists’ · biorender.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCProlific Making diverse, high-quality data easily available to anyone, anywhere · prolific.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCoLab Human and AI design review for hardware · colabsoftware.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | Tech-powered women's wellness. · bellabeat.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | Protocol Labs makes internet protocols: IPFS, Filecoin, and more. · protocol.ai | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Secure Collaboration for Technical Teams · mattermost.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | Physical AI data lab · humanarchive.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCGoLinks Intuitive, easy-to-remember short links - powered by AI. · golinks.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSlash Banking, corporate cards, stablecoin payments – available globally. · slash.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Artificial intelligence for drug discovery. · numerionlabs.ai | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Robotic Automation for cancer diagnostics - Robotic Microscopes &… · morphlelabs.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCReplit Collaborative in-browser IDE · replit.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | At-Home health monitoring with silicon photonic chips for data centers · siphoxhealth.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCReady Collaborative platform for optimizing regulated utilities such as… · ready.net | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Affordable care via ICHRA and primary care with visits, meds, labs… · vitablehealth.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | AIoT monitoring, workflow, and evidence systems for regulated labs. · ilabservice.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Unlocking the utility of genomics for the world. · voltalabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCEmi Labs Helping great teams hire better frontline workers, faster. · emilabs.ai | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCEden Workplace software for people-centric companies. · edenworkplace.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCCentaur We Create Superior Data By Making Annotation Competitive · centaur.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSlite The self-maintaining knowledge base · slite.com | still up |
| 2010-06-01 | YCAeroFS Secure Enterprise Collaboration. · aerofs.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | Orangewood Labs makes worlds most affordable and easiest AI robot arms · orangewood.co | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Personalized drug discovery for blood cancer. · notablelabs.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Unleashing the potential of DNA and RNA based therapies using AI · whitelabgx.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCSeerslab We are providing AR technologies and contents to app developers · argear.io | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Software for collaborating with content creators and influencers · popularpays.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCChipax Quickbooks for SMBs in Latam · chipax.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Robotic production capacity for the pharma manufacturing industry · multiplylabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCTermius Termius is an SSH client with team collaboration features · termius.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Kenota is revolutionizing the way we test for disease · kenota.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSieve The multimodal data lab · sievedata.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCTheorem The mission of Theorem is to make credit safe and available. We use… · theoremlp.com | acquired |
| 2025-01-01 | Applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model… · afterquery.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSpade Spade is the data and AI platform for modern finance. · spade.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Software for medical laboratories and clinics · dashlabs.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | We're building satellites to create a real-time 3D map of the world. · arraylabs.io | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Engineering next-generation, brain-penetrant cancer therapies. · reverielabs.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCVitalize Transforming how health systems optimize labor · vitalize.care | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAdaptyv We're building fully automated labs for protein engineering · adaptyvbio.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | The #1 Actionable FinOps Platform · cloudchipr.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSpline Design and collaborate in multiple dimensions. · spline.design | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | Social Infrastructure for Games; Makers of Nakama game server, Satori… · heroiclabs.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Real-Time Collaborative Transport Management Platform · freterium.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Remote labor for restaurants · biteninja.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | Clara is a human-in-the-loop assistant that helps automate repetitive… · claralabs.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNeodocs Instant lab tests on your smartphone · neodocs.in | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Turn intuition into insights, in minutes · reforgedlabs.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) serving… · confidentlims.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | YCEarbits Google AdWords for music. Allowing bands and labels to bid for… · earbits.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCVelt SDK for adding an agent and human governance layer to your product · velt.dev | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBlee Smart, fast, and collaborative compliance reviews · blee.com | still up |
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.