You asked about Payments
43 people built something like it. 6 are gone.
That is 15% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 3 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | YCOntop Simplifying hiring and payments for the global workforce · getontop.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCToku Account Receivables Platform for Latin American Enterprises · trytoku.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZ1 Digital bank for teenagers in LatAm connected to prepaid card · z1.app | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAtrato Enabling consumers split the cost of purchases without a credit card · atratopago.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSlash Banking, corporate cards, stablecoin payments – available globally. · slash.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNomod The UAE’s leading small business payments platform · nomod.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCForage Payments powering people · joinforage.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFintoc Account-to-Account payments in Mexico and Chile. · fintoc.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZiina A digital wallet for the Middle East & North Africa · ziina.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLendflow Embedded lending infrastructure for software companies · lendflow.com | still up |
| 2021-10-06 | peersend.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMalga Malga is an API to accept payments with multiple payment providers · malga.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCKodo Corporate card & spend management platform for Indian startups · kodo.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHitPay Full-stack payments infrastructure for growing APAC businesses · hitpayapp.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCJABU B2B payments, transforming Africa's cash economy · gojabu.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPortão 3 We are the frictionless way for companies to make payments. · portao3.com.br | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCFormance Open Source Infrastructure for the Financial Internet · formance.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | We're Khatabook / OkCredit for Pakistan · udhaar.pk | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPer Diem The AI operating system for restaurants · tryperdiem.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Subscription infrastructure & paywall experimentation for mobile apps · superwall.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPagaloop Pay, Get Paid and Extend Cash Flow using your Credit Card as… · pagaloop.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPalla P2P Cross border payments · palla.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAkudo India's first learning-focused neobank for teenagers · akudo.in | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | The payments solution for small scale construction. · go.build | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCArrow Modern Checkout Platform for D2C brands in Southeast Asia · arrowcheckout.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCUnion54 Developers of ChitChat, an integrated messaging and payments wallet… · union54.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSlope The B2B Payments Platform · slopepay.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCinai Segment for global payments · inai.io | acquired |
| 2021-06-16 | joinportal.com | moved |
| 2021-01-01 | YCStriga Compliant Crypto and Banking Infrastructure · striga.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLevro Multicurrency account & international payments for businesses · levro.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Buy Now Pay Later + Cash Advance for Household Essentials · joingerald.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTruss Banking for construction · trusspayments.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCHUBUC Global Card Issuing and Payment Processing Engine · hubuc.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCDots 💸 Developer friendly drop in payouts infrastructure · usedots.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCJoinSub India's first aggregator and provider of local business subscriptions · joinsub.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFlux Cross border Payments infrastructure for internet businesses and… · iflux.app | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHyper Sell memberships to your Discord server · hyper.co | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCCheqout Mobile ordering & payments for Brick & Mortars · cheqout.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPAYZE Stripe for former Soviet Union countries · payze.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPideaky We help offline LatAm SMBs manage and accelerate their cash-flow · pideaky.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Payments and scheduling for services professionals in LATAM · encuadrado.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCBlixo Accounts receivable automation to help companies get paid faster · blixo.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Simplified digital health insurance for Filipino SMBs · ourhivehealth.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.