You asked about Retail Tech
1,966 people built something like it. 291 are gone.
That is 17% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 228 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | YCPodium Get more leads. Make more money. · podium.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | The SuperApp for neighbourhood merchants in Africa. · marketforce.io | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Customer loyalty and payments platform for small businesses. · fivestars.com | acquired |
| 2010-06-01 | YCPresto Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants · presto.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | AI-powered checkout for retail. · standard.ai | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCRADAR RADAR is building technology to completely transform the in-store… · goradar.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMeru.com The one-stop-shop for auto-parts in Mexico. · meru.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCuboh We help restaurants manage their online orders. · cuboh.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPositive B2B supplier of fresh/healthy packaged food · positive.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCtrii One stop investment solution for retail investors in Latam · trii.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAnfin A multi-asset trading platform dedicated to retail investors · anfin.vn | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | The operating system for restaurants in LatAm. · parrotsoftware.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSwiftSku Management and analytics software for convenience stores · swiftsku.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCEze The easiest way to track, buy, and sell your company’s tech — all in… · ezeit.ai | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCPeeba Risk-free wholesale for retailers across Southeast Asia · peeba.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCVori Vori is a modern operating system for supermarkets · vori.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAtomic API that lets companies embed investment accounts into their services · atomicvest.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | One-click checkout and AI sales assistant for LatAm. · comprarapida.co | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCValienta Helping Dropshippers in Colombia run the business and increase sales · valienta.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Payroll app to pay workers daily for retailers & manufacturers in SEA · vuiapp.vn | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCWeltio First LatAm W3 WealthTech for AutoInvesting in securities & crypto · weltio.com | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCaper Plug-and-play cashier-less retail powered by computer vision and AI · caper.ai | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCUpgraded Upgraded helps retailers and carriers sell devices on subscription. · getupgraded.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Autonomous robots for retails. · taobotics.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | YCCustora Custora is a predictive analytics platform for e-commerce marketing… · custora.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSprintAI AI-led platform for inventory and fulfillment optimization · getsprint.ai | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCInokyo We bring physical stores to the digital age with cashierless checkout. · inokyo.com | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSanté All-in-one POS for liquor stores · santehq.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCMobydish MobyDish, a tech-enabled service, allowing anyone to place a catering… · mobydish.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | Direct Ordering Software for Restaurants · tablevibe.co | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Web-app | investment education and analysis tools for retail investors · stockunlock.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Helping food brands and retailers reduce food wastage · fountain9.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCDrapr Try on clothing online · drapr.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | YCDealyze Dealyze helps national retailers build exceptional customer and… · dealyze.com | gone |
| 2024-09-01 | YCMetreecs AI-powered demand forecasting for retail · metreecs.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Stripe for Cannabis · payswifter.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | We make $1,000 Amazon Go stores. · maitian.ai | gone |
| 2025-06-01 | YCAstor AI advisor for retail investors · astor.app | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCmatagora Empowering local retailers with tech that works for them. · matagora.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAvocado AI-Native Restaurant POS · avocadopos.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCWarpfy Building Shein of Home: tech-driven, design-mfr Home Lifestyle Brand · warpfy.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCRastro The fastest way to launch product catalogs. · rastro.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Investing app for Muslims · amalinvest.com | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | YCGetcho The reliability platform for last-mile delivery · getcho.app | 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 |
| 2020-06-01 | YCCradle B2B payments network in India · cradlefinance.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | A/B testing for brick-and-mortar stores. · prayasanalytics.com | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | Marketplace enabling social commerce for brands and content creators. · globalbelly.com | gone |
| 2019-06-01 | Api that let you connect all the restaurant tech services in Latam · mipos.dev | gone |
| 2025-01-01 | YCWildcard AEO/GEO for E-Commerce and Retail · wild-card.ai | still up |
| 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 |
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.