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11 people built something like it. 3 are gone.
That is 33% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCAppX AppX helps social media creators launch their own mobile apps. · appx.co.in | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | India’s first and only marriage super app · betterhalf.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAlinea Automated investing for the next generation 💸 · alinea-invest.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCCafé Your Workplace Engagement Hub · at.cafe | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTrendpop Discover trends as they happen · trendpop.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YourQuote is India's largest writing platform · yourquote.in | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Tiktok for fashion - where designers show their work + build traction · revery.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCRethoric LinkedIn content consultancy and scheduling platform for busy founders · rethoric.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFriz AI Social Media Manager · usefriz.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | We help run engaging online conferences. · meetanyway.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCClear The unbiased AI and data layer for skin health. · getclearapp.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.