You asked about Retail
10 people built something like it. 4 are gone.
That is 44% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 1 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-01 | YCPeeba Risk-free wholesale for retailers across Southeast Asia · peeba.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSanté All-in-one POS for liquor stores · santehq.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCMargin POS & operating system that makes liquor stores more money · usemargin.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | YCAirgoods The modern distributor for grocers. · airgoods.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCLuca The Modern Pricing Engine for Retail · askluca.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCVendora All-in-One Software for the $1T Grocery Industry · vendora.io | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCBooth AI Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce · booth.ai | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCCraftOS Inventory Management and POS for the Wine industry · craftos.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | AI Overview Search, as a Service · branch-ai.com | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFlexWash The operating system for the car wash industry. · flexwashtech.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.