You asked about Restaurant Tech
1,811 people built something like it. 247 are gone.
That is 15% 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 |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCuboh We help restaurants manage their online orders. · cuboh.com | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBoostly Premier growth platform for restaurants · boostly.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCHigherMe Helping restaurant employers find & hire better employees faster · higherme.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | The operating system for restaurants in LatAm. · parrotsoftware.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YChaddock AI agents to run restaurant operations · haddock.app | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | AI customer reputation & performance management for restaurant chains. · superorder.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOlaClick Restaurant Solution (E-commerce via WhatsApp + POS + CRM/Marketing) · olaclick.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 |
| 2024-01-01 | Starbucks app for restaurants · joinforge.app | still up |
| 2026-06-01 | Local creators for local businesses · trynearby.com | 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 |
| 2026-06-01 | YCMarble The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants. · joinmarble.ai | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Real-time communication solution for retail and restaurant employees. · shiftmessenger.com | gone |
| 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
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.