You asked about Self-Driving Vehicles
165 people built something like it. 30 are gone.
That is 20% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 12 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 | YCCruise Self-driving cars. · getcruise.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | We build robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. · lucidbots.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFaction Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car. · faction.us | gone |
| 2016-01-01 | Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is a B2B company that is developing… · openmotors.co | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YClvl5 HD maps for self-driving cars. · lvl5.ai | acquired |
| 2026-06-01 | Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots. · agencytool.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Self-driving semi trucks. · embarktrucks.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | YCZendar We make high definition radar allowing self-driving cars to see in… · zendar.io | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCRespan Self-driving observability, evals, and gateway for AI agents · respan.ai | still up |
| 2021-04-16 | anchor.fm | moved |
| 2016-01-01 | YCNetomi Self-Driving Customer Care · netomi.com | still up |
| 2026-01-01 | AI native radars for self-driving cars · congruent.io | still up |
| 2022-03-16 | hints.so | still up |
| 2021-04-20 | cusdis.com | still up |
| 2022-03-30 | coolify.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Mobile Energy Storage Technology · moxionpower.com | gone |
| 2021-03-29 | coollabs.io | still up |
| 2022-06-07 | offline.cash | still up |
| 2023-01-17 | plusdocs.com | moved |
| 2022-02-22 | uxdatabase.io | unverified |
| 2023-04-01 | coursem8.com | still up |
| 2021-03-28 | selfstudyclassics.com | unverified |
| 2022-10-07 | links.paradym.app | unverified |
| 2022-04-12 | productled.com | still up |
| 2022-02-10 | blog.mozilla.org | still up |
| 2022-06-07 | umbrel.com | still up |
| 2022-04-01 | inside.com | gone |
| 2022-10-12 | overflow.io | still up |
| 2022-03-14 | olympianmotors.com | still up |
| 2022-05-27 | maps.ellenhp.me | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCDrivezy India's largest vehicle sharing platform, turning people's vehicles… · drivezy.com | gone |
| 2020-06-01 | YCStatiq. India's Largest EV charging network · statiq.in | still up |
| 2022-06-07 | umbrel.com | still up |
| 2023-04-23 | allquiet.app | still up |
| 2022-04-03 | imagetocartoon.com | still up |
| 2022-01-28 | notiolink.thcl.dev | unverified |
| 2023-07-29 | benhoyt.com | still up |
| 2022-05-20 | lettertribe.com | gone |
| 2022-04-29 | earthjoyapp.com | still up |
| 2022-01-23 | github.com | still up |
| 2022-03-30 | coolify.io | still up |
| 2022-05-28 | meml.ink | gone |
| 2022-03-24 | eesel.app | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCMashgin Self-Checkout using Computer Vision. · mashgin.com | still up |
| 2021-10-06 | indiepaper.me | gone |
| 2022-01-31 | bannery.app | still up |
| 2022-03-14 | proofofself.care | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | Making car ownership and management frictionless. · yoshimobility.com | still up |
| 2022-07-28 | knowledgebase.com | still up |
| 2021-07-21 | foxglove.dev | still up |
| 2022-06-23 | kickstarter.com | unverified |
| 2021-09-28 | trekhleb.dev | still up |
| 2022-06-03 | commit.club | moved |
| 2022-10-06 | kintsugihealth.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCurri Construction & industrial logistics platform. · curri.com | still up |
| 2023-12-05 | sandstorm.org | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCInito Enabling better self care with at-home hormone tracking. · inito.com | still up |
| 2021-07-19 | primerlabs.io | unverified |
| 2023-03-03 | opinionate.io | gone |
| 2023-06-01 | discipline.io | 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.
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.