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56 people built something like it. 8 are gone.
That is 15% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-18 | simplified.co | moved |
| 2022-10-19 | minicoursegenerator.com | still up |
| 2022-10-14 | createtargetaudience.com | gone |
| 2022-03-28 | cxl.com | unverified |
| 2022-03-29 | anaspiringfounder.com | gone |
| 2022-06-13 | favikon.com | still up |
| 2022-02-08 | emailstash.io | still up |
| 2022-07-06 | plezi.co | unverified |
| 2022-01-13 | heybooster.ai | still up |
| 2022-02-09 | emojiai.com | unverified |
| 2022-04-04 | dansiepen.io | still up |
| 2022-10-18 | lunchbox.io | still up |
| 2022-04-01 | kickstartsidehustle.com | still up |
| 2022-06-08 | growthhacksweekly.com | unverified |
| 2022-02-18 | b2bheaven.com | still up |
| 2022-10-07 | storymkrs.com | still up |
| 2022-06-23 | marketingminer.com | still up |
| 2022-06-29 | octie.ai | still up |
| 2022-05-11 | anytrack.io | still up |
| 2022-05-26 | growegy.com | still up |
| 2022-05-16 | ortto.com | still up |
| 2022-05-10 | linkedist.com | still up |
| 2022-06-16 | PHSaaS Startup Content Marketing Playbook — Proven content marketing tactics to grow your SaaS startup yourcontentmart.co | still up |
| 2022-04-07 | PHDashly Conversation Marketing & Support — Business conversation platform integrated with messengers dashly.io | still up |
| 2022-05-06 | simpledm.softr.app | still up |
| 2022-10-05 | juice.ai | unverified |
| 2022-10-28 | redtrack.io | still up |
| 2022-10-24 | caspianstudios.com | still up |
| 2022-10-18 | postparrot.xyz | still up |
| 2022-05-03 | thebestsocialmediatools.com | still up |
| 2022-07-25 | useplunk.com | still up |
| 2022-06-09 | pricingforpm.in | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBoostly Premier growth platform for restaurants · boostly.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCTruva Sell more. Grind less with AI agents. · truva.ai | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Turn intuition into insights, in minutes · reforgedlabs.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Create video by chatting to AI · wondercraft.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-08 | kickstartsidehustle.com | still up |
| 2022-08-08 | bootcamp.uxdesign.cc | unverified |
| 2022-01-01 | Run, Track and manage any and all user incentive campaigns. · rehook.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHOKALI After School & Enrichment Activities Marketplace · hokali.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKular AI Lead Generator · kular.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCngrow.ai Low-code SaaS for marketing in push notifications · ngrow.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBlaze Marketing automation for the modern world · withblaze.app | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Uncover high-fit leads already silently engaging with your brand · customeros.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLoops Email sending for software companies · loops.so | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Customer Engagement software on top of BigQuery/Snowflake · castled.io | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCCotera The fastest way to build an AI agent · cotera.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCMindbase Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans… · mymindbase.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCBobidi Restaurant Loyalty Using Quiz · upswell.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCRelate All-in-One Sales and Marketing CRM for B2B teams · relate.so | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCSuperbar Sales AI for your Website · superbar.ai | still up |
| 2022-07-05 | fairytalemortgage.com | moved |
| 2022-01-01 | YCVessel Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools · vessel.dev | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAd Army Generate, iterate, and ship AI ad creatives faster · ad.army | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAvina GTM signals engine for sales teams. Automate warm outbound with AI. · avina.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSprites The AI performance marketing agent for entrepreneurs and growth teams · sprites.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLovage Automatically fill empty appointment slots for beauty professionals · getlovage.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRanla The AI growth marketer that turns SaaS signups into revenue · ranla.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPopsy AI tool that finds you leads on Reddit and sends them hyper… · popsy.ai | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Open-source customer engagement & messaging automation · dittofeed.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.
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.