You asked about Retail Tech
1,899 people built something like it. 276 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
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.