You asked about Recruiting
106 people built something like it. 14 are gone.
That is 16% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 20 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-01 | A flexible work app that connects businesses with hourly workers. · instawork.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | Change the world to value skills over pedigree · hackerrank.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCLever Talent Acquisition Suite that combines ATS + Talent CRM · lever.co | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | YCGem Talent engagement platform · gem.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCFountain High volume hiring made simple · fountain.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCPave Plan, communicate, and benchmark your compensation in real-time. · pave.com | still up |
| 2022-06-15 | bazait.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAwesomic Get matched with top 1% of talents in 24h · awesomic.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | We help US tech companies hire and manage software engineers in LATAM · howdy.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCTorch torch.io | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Indonesia's #1 ATS & Job Portal to match top talents & companies · dealls.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAccioJob Offline-first tech skilling and placement for India · acciojob.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAshby All-in-one recruiting platform that empowers hiring excellence in… · ashbyhq.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCBluecrew Bluecrew is a web based staffing agency. · bluecrewjobs.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCHENRY We train AI engineers and connect them with companies. · soyhenry.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Learning platform for job seekers with job applications automation · careerist.cc | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCHireArt Gives businesses everything needed to hire & manage W2 contractors. · hireart.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCVahan AI recruiter for India's massive blue-collar workforce · vahan.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCpeopleCQ Employer backed payroll advances for employees in Egypt · peoplecq.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCPowerUs LinkedIn for skilled blue-collar workers · powerus.de | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Workforce platform to recruit, license, credential & manage clinicians · directshifts.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | Intelligent technical hiring. · triplebyte.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCForage Online job simulations for companies to train, and then hire, students · theforage.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJuicebox AI-powered talent sourcing for recruiters · juicebox.ai | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCKalibrr Kalibrr connects SEAsian talent to your local & global jobs. · kalibrr.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCEmi Labs Helping great teams hire better frontline workers, faster. · emilabs.ai | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | YCSpott AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms · spott.io | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCFlo The talent platform for legal · joinflo.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCJopwell Career advancement for Black, Latinx & Native American professionals. · jopwell.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLanded Generative AI for frontline worker hiring · gotlanded.com | still up |
| 2021-09-07 | gethigher.io | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCHigherMe Helping restaurant employers find & hire better employees faster · higherme.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | Headstart uses Machine Learning to help companies decide on who to… · headstart.io | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCWeekday AI recruiter that runs outbound sourcing campaigns to find top talent · weekday.works | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | AI talent platform to hire, manage, and grow your people · peoplebox.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCYouTeam We make it easy for startups to hire engineers. · youteam.io | acquired |
| 2011-06-01 | YCMixRank Data products for sales, marketing, finance, recruiting, and more. · mixrank.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCExtern Professional Experience Anytime, Anywhere. · extern.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHumanly We empower the world’s hiring teams to grow engaged, high-performing… · humanly.io | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAscen EOR for the staffing industry · ascen.com | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | YCAlex Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people. · alex.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | A talent acquisition software built for data-driven recruiting teams. · hiresweet.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCHiration We help job seekers quickly create resumes that get 2X more interviews · hiration.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | AI hiring platform powered by expert recruiters · contrario.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Talent AI improving quality of hire · searchlight.ai | acquired |
| 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 | Education, Employment, Loyalty verification. Global & Compliant. · reclaimprotocol.org | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | ModernLoop helps teams automate and streamline recruiting operations · modernloop.io | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCAlana Staff management software for retail, manufacturing and hospitality · alana.jobs | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | YCDover Your startup's all-in-one recruiting solution · dover.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | Replacing resume screening with code challenges. · hackermeter.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCEdyst Edyst is a peer-to-peer online learning platform where students learn… · edyst.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCManara Connecting top Middle East talent to global tech jobs · manara.tech | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | The digital storefront for staffing and recruiting teams. · candidately.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCFiber AI The freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products · fiber.ai | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We make engineering interviewing look more like real work. · hatchways.io | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCPomello Analytics software that helps companies measure organizational… · pomello.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSerra Your 24/7 AI Recruiter · serra.io | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We help top engineers from emerging markets get jobs abroad at… · outtalent.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.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
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.