You asked about Payroll
31 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. 5 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCGusto Provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team · gusto.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCZenefits HR for small businesses: onboarding, payroll and benefits. · zenefits.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHumi Payroll, HR, and Health Benefits for Canada's SMB's · humi.ca | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCWorkpay Payroll, compliance, benefits, and Employer of Record services for… · myworkpay.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCRuna Automating payroll for Latin America. · runahr.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCpeopleCQ Employer backed payroll advances for employees in Egypt · peoplecq.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCWarp AI-native Employee Management Platform for High-Growth Companies · warp.co | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCZeal Modern payroll for modern work · zeal.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMonet Payroll-backed loans and cash advances in Latam · monet.com.co | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCTrayd A construction payroll and compliance platform built for specialty… · buildtrayd.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCPlane #1 easiest-to-use payroll for startups · plane.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCercli AI powered HR and Recruitment for people teams · cercli.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Eazipay powers effortless payroll and financial access in Africa. · myeazipay.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCBolto AI Powered All-In-One Payroll, HR + Recruiting · bolto.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCKombo Unified API for HR, payroll and recruiting software · kombo.dev | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Payroll app to pay workers daily for retailers & manufacturers in SEA · vuiapp.vn | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | The Work Number for LatAm · burodeingresos.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCCentral Payroll, benefits, state compliance & other bullsh*t for startups · centralhq.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCThera AI-Native Finance OS · getthera.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCEvery Banking + Payroll/Benefits + Bookkeeping + Tax in one place · every.io | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCHammr Rippling for the Construction Industry · hammr.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Workforce solutions for the construction industry · buildstream.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Mobile first solution for Payroll, employee & expense management · salarybook.co.in | still up |
| 2025-06-01 | YCShor International payroll, built for founders · shorpay.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCOnfolk Gusto for the UK · onfolk.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | YCmalibou the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for French SMBs · malibou.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCnoHQ International contractor and multi country payroll · nohq.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCNewCraft Universal API for HR & Payroll · newcraft.io | acquired |
| 2026-01-01 | YCGrade API for performance-based payroll · usegrade.com | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | YCSpine We run benefits, payroll & compliance for startups, for free · joinspine.ai | 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.