You asked about Social Media
347 people built something like it. 124 are gone.
That is 42% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 53 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 |
| 2021-04-15 | niceplace.network | gone |
| 2015-01-01 | Scale new user acquisition with YouTube Creators · makrwatch.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2012-06-01 | Everyday.me - Record your life. Store it forever. · everyday.me | gone |
| 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 |
| 2012-01-01 | YCChute Discover the photos and videos people are taking of your brand or… · getchute.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCJumpcut Helping creators go viral and build businesses. · jumpcut.com | still up |
| 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 |
| 2022-03-07 | jamn.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTrendpop Discover trends as they happen · trendpop.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-13 | gabzzle.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStatus Sims but Social Media · statusai.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCArgil The video generation engine for the creator economy · argil.ai | still up |
| 2021-11-28 | igloosocial.com | still up |
| 2021-02-26 | member.chatanalytic.com | gone~13mo |
| 2022-01-25 | getpip.com | still up |
| 2022-12-22 | ogtester.com | still up |
| 2023-10-03 | hyperframer.com | still up |
| 2021-12-24 | curatora.io | still up |
| 2022-07-22 | menetrend.xyz | unverified |
| 2018-06-01 | Now part of thentwrk.com · demeanor.co | acquired |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCAPSULE Buy anything you find on social media · shopcapsule.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 |
| 2024-09-01 | Powering the biggest IRL streamers today. · streamable.run | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCRemade AI-native canvas for creative workflows. · remade.ai | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | YCWildfire Social news app · getwildfire.com | acquired |
| 2017-06-01 | YCCovetly #1 Collectibles Marketplace: Authentic Vinyl Toys, Comics, Funko Pop · covetly.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | YCNaytev Naytev automates paid and organic social media management in one place · naytev.com | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | YCDigipals The future of Social in the age of AI · digipals.app | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCStreamup Streamup is a live streaming community for music. We make it fun and… · streamup.com | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | AI agents on real phones, growing brands across every platform. · tellif.ai | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Social media management tool for Instagram and Snapchat · storyboard.com | gone |
| 2013-01-01 | YCBeatDeck Music, Metrics... Meritocracy.
(Upload Music, Connect your Social… · beatdeck.com | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | YCBluma Canva for short-form video ads · getbluma.com | still up |
| 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.