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5,824 people built something like it. 1,044 are gone.
That is 21% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 820 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-01 | Household needs, from bread to everything. · breadfast.com | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCDoorDash Restaurant delivery. · doordash.com | acquired |
| 2009-06-01 | YCStripe Economic infrastructure for the internet. · stripe.com | still up |
| 2009-01-01 | YCAirbnb Book accommodations around the world. · airbnb.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | YCCoinbase Buy, sell, and manage cryptocurrencies. · coinbase.com | acquired |
| 2015-01-01 | Cloud solutions for the construction industry. · equipmentshare.com | acquired |
| 2020-01-01 | The fastest shipping for online shopping · 99minutos.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCDeel The all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teams · deel.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2007-06-01 | YCDropbox Backup and share files in the cloud. · dropbox.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | Redcliffe Labs is India's Largest Omni-channel Diagnostics platform · redcliffelabs.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Online engineering college for India. Learn technical skills & get… · skill-lync.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCFlexport Platform for global logistics. · flexport.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCCruise Self-driving cars. · getcruise.com | acquired |
| 2012-06-01 | Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup · instacart.com | acquired |
| 2015-06-01 | YCChaldal chaldal.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCRazorpay India's only full-stack financial solutions company for businesses. · razorpay.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCRippling One place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally. · rippling.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | Building humanity’s multiplanetary future. · relativityspace.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCGusto Provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team · gusto.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | YCGitLab A complete DevOps platform delivered as a single application. · gitlab.com | acquired |
| 2007-01-01 | YCTwitch A global community creating the future of live entertainment. · twitch.com | acquired |
| 2005-06-01 | YCReddit The frontpage of the internet. · reddit.com | acquired |
| 2012-01-01 | YCWave Mobile money app for Africa · wave.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. · goatgroup.com | still up |
| 2010-01-01 | The first all-in-one operating system for marketing · optimizely.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCMeesho Democratizing internet commerce for everyone in India · meesho.com | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCTruepill API-connected healthcare infrastructure. · truepill.com | acquired |
| 2013-01-01 | YCFivetran The leader in automated data movement · fivetran.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | India's Fastest Diagnostics Service · orangehealth.in | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCGroww Making financial services simple, transparent and delightful. · groww.in | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCSuper Super is the first and leading Indonesian social commerce platform · superapp.id | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | The first public safety operating system that eliminates crime. · flocksafety.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | Every shift, Covered. · clipboardworks.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCBrex Business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management software. · brex.com | acquired |
| 2016-06-01 | YCAthelas Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems · athelas.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPodium Get more leads. Make more money. · podium.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | Rebuilding healthcare with AI at the core · akidolabs.com | still up |
| 2010-06-01 | Real-time visibility into critical apps and services all in one place. · pagerduty.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCFaire The global online platform empowering independent retail. · faire.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCClear Fintech SaaS platform for invoices, taxes, wealth management & credit. · clear.in | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | We’re building the world’s bank payment network. · gocardless.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCKovi Making car ownership more inclusive, flexible and simple. · kovi.com.br | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | AI-First Creative Partner for Enterprise Teams · superside.com | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCAlgolia A developer-friendly and enterprise-grade search API. · algolia.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCNewfront Modern insurance brokerage. · newfront.com | acquired |
| 2016-01-01 | Apollo is the foundation of your entire go-to-market strategy. · apollo.io | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCCheckr People infrastructure for the future of work · checkr.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | The 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. · humaninterest.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCCalii Full-stack grocery delivery in LatAm · calii.com | still up |
| 2012-06-01 | Unlocking the power of biotech with modern software for modern science · benchling.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | Digital Analytics Platform · amplitude.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCHogaru Hogaru is a tech-enabled home services platform in Latin America. · hogaru.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCWhatnot Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S. · whatnot.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCNabis Nabis is the largest licensed cannabis wholesale platform. · nabis.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCVanta Vanta—the proven leader in automated compliance helping startups… · vanta.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCXendit Provides payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia · xendit.co | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCIronclad AI-powered contract management · ironcladapp.com | still up |
How this compares
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
Matched on whole words in the title and description, so a launch can fall into two categories and plenty fall into none.
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.