You asked about Restaurant Tech
1,885 people built something like it. 264 are gone.
That is 16% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 211 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-01 | The everything store for restaurants in LATAM. · frubana.com | gone |
| 2010-06-01 | YCPresto Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants · presto.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa · getfoodcourt.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBoostly Premier growth platform for restaurants · boostly.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCuboh We help restaurants manage their online orders. · cuboh.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | YCHigherMe Helping restaurant employers find & hire better employees faster · higherme.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YChaddock AI agents to run restaurant operations · haddock.app | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | The operating system for restaurants in LatAm. · parrotsoftware.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOlaClick Restaurant Solution (E-commerce via WhatsApp + POS + CRM/Marketing) · olaclick.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | AI customer reputation & performance management for restaurant chains. · superorder.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Working capital for Brazilian restaurants · pantorepay.com.br | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKaso AI group purchasing for restaurants · kaso.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPoloTab Restaurant software that actually works · polotab.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVoosh Making Restaurants more data-driven! · voosh.ai | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAtlas Operating system for restaurants, focusing on Southeast Asia · atlas.kitchen | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCGoodybag An online tool for companies to order food from restaurants and… · goodybag.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Direct Ordering Software for Restaurants · tablevibe.co | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | AI-Driven Tech & Space Optimization to Scale Restaurants · onestopkitchen.com | gone |
| 2025-06-01 | Replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI · certus-ai.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCZavo AI Operating System for Restaurants · zavopay.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | #1 Data platform for restaurants. Acquired by Thanx · zerostorefront.com | acquired |
| 2023-01-01 | YCOfOne AI-powered order taker for restaurant drive-thrus · of.one | acquired |
| 2026-06-01 | Local creators for local businesses · trynearby.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Starbucks app for restaurants · joinforge.app | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAvocado AI-Native Restaurant POS · avocadopos.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | Replacing the paper restaurant menu with an interactive experience at… · buttersystems.com | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Real-time communication solution for retail and restaurant employees. · shiftmessenger.com | gone |
| 2026-06-01 | YCMarble The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants. · joinmarble.ai | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | We put farms inside restaurants, so customers get healthier food and… · claytonfarms.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | Asset Light Chipotle for Africa · chowcentral.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | Api that let you connect all the restaurant tech services in Latam · mipos.dev | gone |
| 2013-06-01 | YCDoorDash Restaurant delivery. · doordash.com | acquired |
| 2009-06-01 | YCStripe Economic infrastructure for the internet. · stripe.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCCoinbase Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies. · coinbase.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Online engineering college for India. Learn technical skills & get… · skill-lync.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCRazorpay India's only full-stack financial solutions company for businesses. · razorpay.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCWave Mobile money app for Africa · wave.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCGroww Making financial services simple, transparent and delightful. · groww.in | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCBrex Business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management software. · brex.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | Every shift, Covered. · clipboardworks.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | YCAthelas Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems · athelas.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPodium Get more leads. Make more money. · podium.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | We’re building the world’s bank payment network. · gocardless.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCClear Fintech SaaS platform for invoices, taxes, wealth management & credit. · clear.in | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCKovi Making car ownership more inclusive, flexible and simple. · kovi.com.br | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCNewfront Modern insurance brokerage. · newfront.com | acquired |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | The 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. · humaninterest.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Unlocking the power of biotech with modern software for modern science · benchling.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHogaru Hogaru is a tech-enabled home services platform in Latin America. · hogaru.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCXendit Provides payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia · xendit.co | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCGuesty The management platform for the short term rental industry. · guesty.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCNabis Nabis is the largest licensed cannabis wholesale platform. · nabis.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCIronclad AI-powered contract management · ironcladapp.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.