Bonfire

Bonfire is reimagining RFPs & bidding for gov procurement teams

Today: acquired
Launched: 2015-01-01
Where: YC
Team size: 95 people

B2B Finance and Accounting SaaS GovTech Procurement

What we know

Bonfire was funded by Y Combinator on 2015-01-01 at gobonfire.com. Y Combinator records this company as acquired.

Across the whole register, 23% of launches whose fate we could settle are gone.

Go and look

gobonfire.com — the site itself
What it looked like, in the Internet Archive

Others who tried something similar

Sieve — still up
Workpay — still up
Fintoc — still up
Alana — gone
SafetyKit — still up
Sentiyen — still up
Floobits — gone
Artos — still up

How we know. Show HN and Product Hunt entries 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 has shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server that answers 404 is one somebody still pays for. Y Combinator entries use the status YC itself publishes, which is why only those can say acquired. Search the whole register.