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40 people built something like it. 13 are gone.
That is 41% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 8 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-01 | Build and grow your app business · revenuecat.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCToku Account Receivables Platform for Latin American Enterprises · trytoku.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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2018-06-01 | YCNova Digital subscriptions that delight investors. · novahq.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSecured Tools for Sneaker, NFT & web3 investors · secured.community | gone |
| 2017-06-01 | YCAudm Audm is a subscription service providing mini-audiobooks —… · audm.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCRebill Global payments infrastructure in LATAM and US · rebill.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YourQuote is India's largest writing platform · yourquote.in | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCJoinSub India's first aggregator and provider of local business subscriptions · joinsub.com | gone |
| 2014-06-01 | Subscription billing, rate plan management and analytics as a… · billforward.io | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | YCFlyCode Recover failed subscription payments to increase retention and LTV · flycode.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | The global community for the South Asia-curious · thejuggernaut.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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2023-01-01 | YCSorted Instant SaaS management · sorted-lp.webflow.io | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | Subscriptions for neighborhood businesses · thethirdplace.is | still up |
| 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 |
| 2020-01-01 | YCApartio Apartio offers Short Term Rentals for Business Travelers in Brazil · apartio.com.br | gone |
| 2018-01-01 | Patreon for professional authors. · curiousfictions.com | gone |
| 2024-01-01 | Self-improving content bank for marketing · useresonance.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Kid-friendly, at-home volunteer projects in a box, delivered bimonthly · alltruists.com | gone |
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.