You asked about Subscriptions
49 people built something like it. 15 are gone.
That is 37% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 8 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-23 | ghost.org | still up |
| 2023-05-24 | pixian.ai | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Build and grow your app business · revenuecat.com | still up |
| 2022-05-19 | unlock-protocol.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCToku Account Receivables Platform for Latin American Enterprises · trytoku.com | still up |
| 2022-05-17 | smartrr.com | still up |
| 2023-06-28 | upvpn.app | still up |
| 2022-02-03 | land.streamloots.com | unverified |
| 2022-02-16 | blixo.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCHubla All-in-one platform for creators to sell courses and subscriptions · hub.la | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCRinsed Software to run car washes moving to a monthly subscription model · rinsed.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCGobble Daily meal delivery, personalized to your tastes. · gobble.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCSkio Subscriptions for Shopify · skio.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCTreinta Software and AI tools for SMBs in the US and Latin America · treinta.co | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCCratejoy Cratejoy is the platform for subscriptions · cratejoy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCDurioo Streaming Platform for Muslim Children · durioo.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPerfekto Grocery subscription service against food waste in Latam · perfekto.mx | gone |
| 2017-01-01 | YCBeek Leading audio subscription platform for Spanish content and creators · beek.io | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCPandai Learning app for school students in Southeast Asia · pandai.org | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAltro Build Credit With Your Subscriptions · altro.io | acquired |
| 2023-05-17 | subscriber-only.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | YCMojo Mobile app for creating pro-quality social media videos · mojo-app.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCQuan End-to-end platform to improve wellbeing and team performance. · quanwellbeing.com | acquired |
| 2021-07-13 | everlint.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCAxis Knowledge base for corporate affairs teams · axis.xyz | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMeasured Telemedicine platform for chronic conditions like obesity · trymeasured.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSecured Tools for Sneaker, NFT & web3 investors · secured.community | gone |
| 2018-06-01 | YCNova Digital subscriptions that delight investors. · novahq.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRebill Global payments infrastructure in LATAM and US · rebill.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCAudm Audm is a subscription service providing mini-audiobooks —… · audm.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YourQuote is India's largest writing platform · yourquote.in | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | Subscription billing, rate plan management and analytics as a… · billforward.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCJoinSub India's first aggregator and provider of local business subscriptions · joinsub.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCFlyCode Recover failed subscription payments to increase retention and LTV · flycode.com | still up |
| 2022-08-30 | knotapi.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCPrendea Live afterschool classes for Spanish-speaking kids ages 4 to 15. · prendea.com | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Travel planner for researching, organizing, and mapping your trip · wanderlog.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | The global community for the South Asia-curious · thejuggernaut.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Japanese comic subscription service · omoi.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Provides live, virtual running classes to runners all around the world · chargerunning.com | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Patreon for professional authors. · curiousfictions.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Subscriptions for neighborhood businesses · thethirdplace.is | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCApartio Apartio offers Short Term Rentals for Business Travelers in Brazil · apartio.com.br | gone |
| 2019-01-01 | Pools is a memberships platform for event organizers · pools.events | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | A video subscription platform serving black viewers and creators. · blackoak.tv | gone |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSorted Instant SaaS management · sorted-lp.webflow.io | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Self-improving content bank for marketing · useresonance.com | acquired |
| 2023-06-01 | YCSlicker Recover payment failures and maximize subscription Revenue · slickerhq.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCFlexWash The operating system for the car wash industry. · flexwashtech.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Kid-friendly, at-home volunteer projects in a box, delivered bimonthly · alltruists.com | gone |
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.
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.