You asked about Social Media
252 people built something like it. 98 are gone.
That is 49% 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 |
| 2022-01-01 | Reselling marketplace for social media entrepreneurs in Pakistan · markaz.app | 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 |
| 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 |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSyncly Social listening for the video era · syncly.app | 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 |
| 2016-01-01 | YCWakie A social app for phone calls. Express yourself and make real friends. · wakie.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 |
| 2026-09-01 | YCNative Artificial Intuition for marketing · native.no | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCTreblo Create hit songs with AI · sonauto.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCRethoric LinkedIn content consultancy and scheduling platform for busy founders · rethoric.com | 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 |
| 2018-06-01 | Now part of thentwrk.com · demeanor.co | acquired |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2008-06-01 | YCSlinkset Votable lists · slinkset.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Remix any song into any style · soundry.ai | gone |
| 2025-09-01 | AI agents on real phones, growing brands across every platform. · tellif.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | GenAI Interactive story. Creator write fictions 10x faster. · storioai.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCStreamup Streamup is a live streaming community for music. We make it fun and… · streamup.com | gone |
| 2024-06-01 | YCTypa The content engine that wins attention and drives growth. · typa.ai | still up |
| 2025-09-01 | YCBluma Canva for short-form video ads · getbluma.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | YCBeatDeck Music, Metrics... Meritocracy.
(Upload Music, Connect your Social… · beatdeck.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | Social media management tool for Instagram and Snapchat · storyboard.com | gone |
| 2024-09-01 | Let your camera understand the world · darkgrade.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCBreaker A podcast company. · breaker.audio | acquired |
| 2024-09-01 | YCCharm Charm is the universal payments app — send money to anyone. · charm.cash | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCEggnog AI-native entertainment · eggnog.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLumona AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. · lumona.ai | gone |
| 2026-01-01 | YCRemix Social media content auto-generated with your existing data · remix.re | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSuper Super is the first and leading Indonesian social commerce platform · superapp.id | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Subscription sports media. · theathletic.com | acquired |
| 2008-01-01 | Pioneers of mobile social gaming. · mz.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | The best way to launch, manage and measure social impact programs · submittable.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa · remedial.health | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCLendUp LendUp is a socially responsible company on a mission to redefine… · lendup.com | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCMuzz Where Single Muslims meet · muzz.com | still up |
| 2008-06-01 | gotreehouse.com | gone |
| 2016-06-01 | YCJoy The platform for all your life events. · withjoy.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Dating & relationship coaching sessions for individuals and couples · relationshiphero.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Our platform enables creators to build experiences, games, and worlds… · pocketworlds.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Tech in Asia (YC W15) is the largest English-language technology… · techinasia.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | YCGather Building a better way to meet online. · gather.town | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCKosh Creating Microfinance 2.0. · getkosh.com | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Ready Education is building the mobile OS for higher education. We… · readyeducation.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.