You asked about Social Media
13 people built something like it. 1 is gone.
That is 8% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | Reselling marketplace for social media entrepreneurs in Pakistan · markaz.app | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStatus Sims but Social Media · statusai.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCAPSULE Buy anything you find on social media · shopcapsule.ai | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa · remedial.health | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Connecting the world by simulating it · gymclass.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCTendo Enabling Africans to sell online with zero capital · tendo.app | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPana A Global Bank on Chain · holapana.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCArgo A social streaming platform powered by creators and fans · argo.la | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCraze The AI Video Maker · craze.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCMindbase Build AI influencers that autonomously create content, engage fans… · mymindbase.ai | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Building the world’s largest online surf gear store. · boardcave.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Share casual moments with the people you care about · housewarming.me | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCJamble Live shopping for collectibles in Brazil · jambleapp.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.