You asked about Social Network
17 people built something like it. 2 are gone.
That is 13% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | The integration layer for live events infrastructure · crowdvolt.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCWhip A social feed for interactive AI Creations · whip.run | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCDeep24 AI coach for your entire life · deep24.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCArgil The video generation engine for the creator economy · argil.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | We build and operate underwater data centers. · networkocean.io | still up |
| 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 |
| 2024-06-01 | YCAffil.ai AI Affiliate Network For Financial Companies · affil.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | The video-first food delivery app. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash. · bitesight.com | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | Remix any song into any style · soundry.ai | acquired |
| 2024-01-01 | GenAI Interactive story. Creator write fictions 10x faster. · storioai.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | YCTypa The content engine that wins attention and drives growth. · typa.ai | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Software and hardware to run neural networks faster and cheaper · deepsilicon.net | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | YCEggnog Fun with AI video · eggnog.ai | still up |
| 2024-01-01 | YCLumona AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. · lumona.ai | gone |
| 2024-09-01 | YCCharm Charm is the universal payments app — send money to anyone. · charm.cash | still up |
| 2024-09-01 | Let your camera understand the world · darkgrade.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.