You asked about Manufacturing and Robotics
21 people built something like it. 4 are gone.
That is 20% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | Software orchestrated mass production of plastics · atomic.industries | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Physical AI for Warehouses and Factories · fluxauto.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Robots that build solar farms · chargerobotics.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | GreaseBoss verifes industrial machinery is greased correctly · greaseboss.com.au | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRMFG Advanced Contract MFG for fast moving hardware companies · rmfg.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBotBuilt We use robots to build houses. · botbuilt.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Building robots to automate commercial concrete construction. · rointech.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCEncord The data layer for physical AI · encord.com | still up |
| 2021-07-21 | foxglove.dev | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists. · reshapebiotech.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCJiga Source better parts by partnering directly with vetted manufacturers · jiga.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Unlocking the next generation of mRNA medicines · sensible.bio | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Surgical robotics for every operating room · revolvesurgical.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMezli Autonomous restaurants that make great, affordable meals. · mezli.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCJupe Just add land · jupe.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Synthetic data for better vision. · sbxrobotics.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles · hermes-robotics.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We visually monitor space objects for governments and defense · heo-robotics.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Build factory ready tech packs in minutes. · aitechpacks.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Bringing back blimps · buoyant.aero | 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.