You asked about Social Media
352 people built something like it. 127 are gone.
That is 42% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 52 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-01 | YCTwitch A global community creating the future of live entertainment. · twitch.com | acquired |
| 2005-06-01 | YCReddit The frontpage of the internet. · reddit.com | acquired |
| 2022-04-27 | famewall.io | still up |
| 2022-02-17 | socialchamp.com | still up |
| 2022-04-26 | juphy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-30 | whatsnew.co | moved |
| 2022-11-23 | handlefinder.com | unverified |
| 2022-04-08 | candidatechecker.io | still up |
| 2022-01-08 | graaphics.co | still up |
| 2023-10-08 | bloom.tendtoyourgarden.xyz | still up |
| 2022-05-03 | thebestsocialmediatools.com | still up |
| 2022-07-18 | babble.landrop.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Reselling marketplace for social media entrepreneurs in Pakistan · markaz.app | still up |
| 2023-02-07 | misinfogame.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | YC9gag Make the world happier. · 9gag.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCAppX AppX helps social media creators launch their own mobile apps. · appx.co.in | still up |
| 2021-04-06 | theniceplace.net | moved |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLokal Local news, information and classifieds for India's small town users · getlokalapp.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCMojo Mobile app for creating pro-quality social media videos · mojo-app.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | Scale new user acquisition with YouTube Creators · makrwatch.com | still up |
| 2021-04-15 | niceplace.network | gone |
| 2023-04-22 | cubetrek.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSyncly Social listening for the video era · syncly.app | still up |
| 2022-12-30 | fetcher.page | gone |
| 2023-08-08 | telemonial.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCArk Ark organizes the world's social information. · ark.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCCoub Coub is YouTube for video loops. You can take any video from YouTube,… · coub.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCJumpcut Helping creators go viral and build businesses. · jumpcut.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCChute Discover the photos and videos people are taking of your brand or… · getchute.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | Everyday.me - Record your life. Store it forever. · everyday.me | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTrendpop Discover trends as they happen · trendpop.com | acquired |
| 2022-03-07 | jamn.io | unverified |
| 2026-09-14 | thevidmarket.com | unverified |
| 2016-01-01 | YCWakie A social app for phone calls. Express yourself and make real friends. · wakie.com | still up |
| 2021-04-14 | cropping.rocks | gone |
| 2021-01-13 | gabzzle.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStatus Sims but Social Media · statusai.com | still up |
| 2021-02-26 | member.chatanalytic.com | gone~13mo |
| 2021-11-28 | igloosocial.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCArgil The video generation engine for the creator economy · argil.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-25 | getpip.com | still up |
| 2026-09-01 | YCNative Artificial Intuition for marketing · native.no | still up |
| 2023-10-03 | hyperframer.com | still up |
| 2022-12-22 | ogtester.com | still up |
| 2022-07-22 | menetrend.xyz | unverified |
| 2021-12-24 | curatora.io | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCTreblo Create hit songs with AI · sonauto.ai | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Now part of thentwrk.com · demeanor.co | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCRethoric LinkedIn content consultancy and scheduling platform for busy founders · rethoric.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCRemade AI-native canvas for creative workflows. · remade.ai | acquired |
| 2024-09-01 | Powering the biggest IRL streamers today. · streamable.run | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCAPSULE Buy anything you find on social media · shopcapsule.ai | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFriz AI Social Media Manager · usefriz.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | YCWildfire Social news app · getwildfire.com | acquired |
| 2025-09-01 | YCDigipals The future of Social in the age of AI · digipals.app | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCNaytev Naytev automates paid and organic social media management in one place · naytev.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCCovetly #1 Collectibles Marketplace: Authentic Vinyl Toys, Comics, Funko Pop · covetly.com | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | YCBluma Canva for short-form video ads · getbluma.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Social media management tool for Instagram and Snapchat · storyboard.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | GenAI Interactive story. Creator write fictions 10x faster. · storioai.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.
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.