You asked about Payments
25 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 8% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-19 | chequpi.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCAlaan Modern finance platform for the Middle East · alaan.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | dltpay.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 |
| 2023-12-18 | docs.hyperswitch.io | 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 |
| 2023-08-02 | mypaylink.co | gone |
| 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 |
| 2023-04-26 | fiolet.xyz | unverified |
| 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 | YCSlicker Recover payment failures and maximize subscription Revenue · slickerhq.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Automate your chargebacks with AI agents · disputeninja.ai | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCVaultPay Digital banking platform for the 30 million smartphone users in DRC. · vaultpay.io | 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.