You asked about Virtual and Augmented Reality
10 people built something like it. 5 are gone.
That is 50% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | Building the next generation AI creative studio · moonvalley.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCFilta The Face Filter NFT Marketplace · getfilta.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Realistic virtual video studio to record and stream from your browser · lighttwist.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | DoF provides a high quality, affordable higher education alternative. · degreesoffreedom.org | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Building Job driven Virtual Tech University for India 🇮🇳 · algouniversity.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCUnfurl A virtual food hall that delivers · unfurlcuisine.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCMindmesh Mindmesh is the virtual desk that puts you in control. · mindmesh.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | Virtual Co-working Community · flow.club | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Provides live, virtual running classes to runners all around the world · chargerunning.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCHera Calendar app to prepare, join and follow-up on virtual meetings · hera.so | 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.