You asked about Remote Work
719 people built something like it. 135 are gone.
That is 20% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. Half of the gone ones were last seen within 28 months of launching. 52 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-06-01 | YCScribd World's largest online library. · scribd.com | still up |
| 2021-08-13 | nomadvisa.io | still up |
| 2022-04-20 | workmode.co | still up |
| 2022-04-14 | remoteindex.co | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Health insurance for remote teams · safetywing.com | still up |
| 2022-04-29 | karmabot.chat | still up |
| 2022-02-05 | remoteafrica.io | still up |
| 2021-01-17 | remoteclub.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCKalibrr Kalibrr connects SEAsian talent to your local & global jobs. · kalibrr.com | acquired |
| 2023-10-23 | ploito.com | unverified |
| 2024-01-01 | YCCleva Global neobank for emerging markets · getcleva.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCExtern Professional Experience Anytime, Anywhere. · extern.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCStable A virtual address + mailbox for business · usestable.com | still up |
| 2023-08-18 | thewirednomad.com | still up |
| 2021-03-30 | remotechoice.co | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCWallbit Neobank for global remote workers · wallbit.io | still up |
| 2022-02-23 | remoteok.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCGrey Banking services for remote workers and digital nomads · grey.co | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | YCNdea Building AGI that can innovate. · ndea.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | ModernLoop helps teams automate and streamline recruiting operations · modernloop.io | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Manage your website from your favorite tools like Airtable and Notion · whalesync.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMindmesh Mindmesh is the virtual desk that puts you in control. · mindmesh.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCZynq Office management platform that optimizes your hybrid workplace · zynq.io | acquired |
| 2021-11-18 | offie.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Virtual Co-working Community · flow.club | still up |
| 2022-01-25 | increaser.org | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | A faster and more collaborative alternative to Jira for remote teams · kitemaker.co | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | API for shared embeddable web browsers · hyperbeam.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCAirPair Instant access to the world's best software experts via video chat… · airpair.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLinkGrep AI browser copilot for teams · linkgrep.com | still up |
| 2005-06-01 | YCReddit The frontpage of the internet. · reddit.com | acquired |
| 2007-01-01 | YCTwitch A global community creating the future of live entertainment. · twitch.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-12 | non.io | still up |
| 2022-05-24 | peerlist.io | unverified |
| 2023-07-10 | workout.lol | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | We’re building the world’s bank payment network. · gocardless.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2022-03-27 | networksfromscratch.com | gone |
| 2022-05-02 | switchboard.app | moved |
| 2022-04-16 | slowsocial.us | still up |
| 2022-05-11 | acapela.com | unverified |
| 2012-06-01 | YCZapier The easiest way to automate your work. · zapier.com | still up |
| 2022-03-23 | tome.app | unverified |
| 2014-06-01 | Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. · ginkgobioworks.com | acquired |
| 2022-04-11 | reflect.app | still up |
| 2022-11-15 | retool.com | still up |
| 2022-06-24 | beau.to | still up |
| 2022-10-18 | swurl.com | unverified |
| 2022-02-23 | make.com | unverified |
| 2022-01-17 | othership.us | still up |
| 2023-04-20 | stretch15.com | still up |
| 2022-02-01 | hera.so | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | A flexible work app that connects businesses with hourly workers. · instawork.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Building the safety net of the future · pairteam.com | still up |
| 2022-05-31 | stagetimer.io | still up |
| 2022-04-21 | beondeck.com | moved |
| 2022-05-11 | himalayas.app | still up |
| 2021-04-20 | cusdis.com | still up |
| 2022-06-29 | superblocks.com | still up |
| 2022-06-09 | slite.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.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
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.