You asked about Music
21 people built something like it. 10 are gone.
That is 71% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 7 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-06-01 | YCGenius Music Intelligence · genius.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCLaylo The CRM powering iconic musicians and events · laylo.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | YCEarbits Google AdWords for music. Allowing bands and labels to bid for… · earbits.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCFinnix Financial technology solutions for Indonesian creative businesses · finnix.id | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | The integration layer for live events infrastructure · crowdvolt.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTrendpop Discover trends as they happen · trendpop.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Share sounds with other musicians online · supertone.com | gone |
| 2007-06-01 | YCReble P2P Music Sharing · reble.fm | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Remix any song into any style · soundry.ai | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | YCStreamup Streamup is a live streaming community for music. We make it fun and… · streamup.com | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCBop.fm Canonical permalinks for songs. · bop.fm | acquired |
| 2013-01-01 | YCBeatDeck Music, Metrics... Meritocracy.
(Upload Music, Connect your Social… · beatdeck.com | gone |
| 2008-01-01 | YCMixwit Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part… · cloud.tv | gone |
| 2009-01-01 | YCEchodio Sync and stream your music across any device. Acquired in 2009. · echodio.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | Find the best electronic music events in a single message. · m.me | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | YCMixy Make mashups without knowing how to DJ · usemixy.com | still up |
| 2006-06-01 | YCJamglue jamglue.com | gone |
| 2008-06-01 | YCPopcuts Popcuts is an online music store where fans participate in the… · popcuts.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCJamiphy TikTok for Musicians · jamiphy.com | gone |
| 2012-06-01 | YCHipset The best way for artists to release new music and videos. · tracksby.com | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCWavy Experience music and art in augmented reality · downloadwavy.com | acquired |
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.