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21 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 5% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | YCAlaan Modern finance platform for the Middle East · alaan.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Helping businesses in emerging markets make pay their international… · capimoney.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCBujeti The Finance Control Centre for African Businesses · bujeti.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | AI-native operations for the banks · bretton.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCWaza B2B payments platform for emerging markets. · waza.co | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPoloTab Restaurant software that actually works · polotab.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCMilio B2B-2C real-time account to account payments · miliopay.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCheqUPI India's first UPI wallet for foreign nationals and NRIs · cheq.money | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCInfinia Move money programmatically · infiniaweb.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCinBuild Workflow Automation for Construction Finance · inbuild.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPalomma AI & financial services for real estate in LatAm, starting by rent · palomma.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCFlex Stripe for HSA/FSA payments · withflex.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCKoywe Crypto On and Off Ramp for Latam · koywe.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCOneText Frictionless payments via SMS · onetext.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Unifying how the optical industry does business. · speccheckrx.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCVendora All-in-One Software for the $1T Grocery Industry · vendora.io | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Incentives and financing for energy efficiency upgrades · line.build | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | AI to increase payment acceptance and reduce fraud for businesses · corgilabs.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Automate your chargebacks with AI agents · disputeninja.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSlicker Recover payment failures and maximize subscription Revenue · slickerhq.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCVaultPay Digital banking platform for the 30 million smartphone users in DRC. · vaultpay.io | 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.