You asked about Recruiting and Talent
15 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 13% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2021-01-01 | YCWeekday AI recruiter that runs outbound sourcing campaigns to find top talent · weekday.works | 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 |
| 2021-01-01 | YCManara Connecting top Middle East talent to global tech jobs · manara.tech | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCrew Next Gen ATS/CRM for Modern Recruitment Agencies · crew.work | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Your personal hiring page. · talentdrop.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Hire Fractional Marketing + Design Talent · pangea.app | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Learning platform for job seekers with job applications automation · careerist.cc | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCpeopleCQ Employer backed payroll advances for employees in Egypt · peoplecq.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSimplify Helping a billion people build their dream career · simplify.jobs | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAdni The career community for healthcare workers · adni.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | We teach Filipinos to become remote software engineers globally. · avionschool.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHirebolt AI engineering capacity. Made simple. ⚡️ · hirebolt.com | 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.