You asked about Self-Driving Vehicles
84 people built something like it. 12 are gone.
That is 17% 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 |
| 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 |
| 2021-01-01 | Mobile Energy Storage Technology · moxionpower.com | 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 |
| 2015-01-01 | YCMashgin Self-Checkout using Computer Vision. · mashgin.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Making car ownership and management frictionless. · yoshimobility.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCCurri Construction & industrial logistics platform. · curri.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCInito Enabling better self care with at-home hormone tracking. · inito.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | First electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion · beyond-aero.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCPyka Autonomous electric airplanes · flypyka.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | The lightest electric aircraft motors in the world. · h3x.tech | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YCBoosted Simple, fun, and fast electric vehicles. · boostedboards.com | acquired |
| 2019-01-01 | Heart makes electric airplanes with an all-electric range of 250 miles · heartaerospace.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCAmpUp We make EV charging as simple and reliable as LED lights · ampup.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCRemora Carbon capture for vehicles · remoracarbon.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSlite The self-maintaining knowledge base · slite.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCREGENT All-electric seagliders for fast, affordable regional transportation · regentcraft.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Predictive battery management software for electrified fleets · zitara.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCEkho Shopify for vehicles · ekho.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles · polymathrobotics.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCBonsai The all-in-one solution for small businesses and self-employed. · hellobonsai.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCFetch Marketplace for self-service truck rental. · fetchtruck.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCIOMETE Self-hosted data lakehouse platform · iomete.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCEnso Self-Service Data Prep and Blend Built for Data Teams. · ensoanalytics.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Underwater robotic vehicles that collect battery metals responsibly · impossiblemetals.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCInflow A self-help app for people to manage their ADHD. · getinflow.io | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | Win money betting on yourself playing AAA video games · playerslounge.co | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCLyrebird Our tech speaks for itself. · lyrebird.ai | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCChatwoot The modern, open source, self-hosted AI customer support platform · chatwoot.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | A self-healing platform to enrich and fix server alerts automatically · neptune.io | gone |
| 2011-06-01 | Self-service display advertising for SaaS and online retail. · perfectaudience.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | Open-source, self-hosted, session replay tool for developers. · openreplay.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense · orbitalops.tech | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Next-generation, modular electric vehicles · olympianmotors.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRTHM Self-learning care for complex illness · rthm.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Battery Observability Platform for Electric Vehicles · coulomb.ai | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Autonomous driving technology for farm tractors. · bearflagrobotics.com | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | YCWakie A social app for phone calls. Express yourself and make real friends. · wakie.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCEmobi A single point integration for secure and automated EV charging. · emobi.ai | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | App that turns selfie photos into thousand emoji that look like you… · mirror-ai.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCHelium Self Improving Software · tryhelium.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCMaitai Reliable, self-improving enterprise AI · trymaitai.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Building self-programming machines · mayalabs.io | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | Self-Improving Ad Creative Engines · gooseworks.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles · hermes-robotics.com | still up |
| 2025-01-01 | Next-Generation Power Electronics · steinmetzmotors.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCNimbus Tesla for city dwellers · nimbus.green | gone |
| 2020-01-01 | YCOpenUnit Software for managing self-storage facilities. · openunit.com | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | Training Data for Recursive Self-Improvement · hillclimb.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCProcoto Self-service RFP management · procoto.com | acquired |
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.