You asked about Medical Devices
23 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 9% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCLuminate We make cancer care at home possible. · luminatemed.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Pioneering Breast Cancer Diagnostics for a Healthier Tomorrow · digistain.co.uk | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNeodocs Instant lab tests on your smartphone · neodocs.in | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Desktop DNA Printer. The Nespresso Machine for DNA. · kilobaser.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSafeBeat Guiding cardiac therapeutics - all from your phone · safebeat.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We make injections as easy as pushing a button! · pirouettepharma.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Surgical robotics for every operating room · revolvesurgical.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Portable cryoablation to prevent cervical cancer · ananya.health | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMable First personalized migraine clinic using genetics and telehealth. · trymable.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | One-hour antibiotic sensitivity testing · astekdx.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Transforming the lives of millions of women suffering from chronic… · vflowmedicalinc.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Breaking new ground in online eyecare. · quadranteye.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Semi-Autonomous Diagnostics for Emergent Care · cairehealth.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Immediate stroke detection at home · zeitmedical.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Reinventing respiration monitoring · makaniscience.net | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAuricle Neurostimulation implant to restore hearing & speech understanding · auricle.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Software for medical laboratories and clinics · dashlabs.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Autonomous medical care · legionhealth.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | We help nurses in nursing homes to be 30% more effective · momomedical.com | still up |
| 2021-10-05 | questdb.io | moved |
| 2021-06-01 | YCRinse We're building the One Medical for dental · rinse.dental | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | 2 sided Marketplace for accelerating medical research · infiuss.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The medical record & infrastructure stack for digital health companies · akutehealth.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Home medical equipment, prescribed online and delivered. · equipthealth.com | still up |
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.