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Design — 100 Excuses for Designers [Design Tools, Design Books, Developer Tools]
Designest. 2016
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
-8.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-8.0) — observed activity is receding. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 7813 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

100 Excuses for Designers -- Because sometimes you need one!'s site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
CanvasFlip Visual Inspectordesignsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Guess the Hexdesignsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
flatuicolorpickerdesignsimilar100%44.70.0● live
FullScreenDisplaydesignsimilar75%16.00.0→ redirected
Get Colordesignsimilar75%40.00.0● live
iPhone X Web-Viewerdev-toolstag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
New Tab Color Clockdesignsimilar75%0.00.0■ inactive
Funkifydesignsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:20Z10005timeout
2026-08-17 13:58Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com9415redirected_offsite
2026-08-10 00:23Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com6026redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:58Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com6304redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:55Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com8901redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:49Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com5728redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:32Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com8948redirected_offsite
2026-07-14 09:24Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com8339redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:28Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com9115redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 01:06Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com6409redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 14:04Z10008timeout
2026-06-23 13:13Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com8640redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:32Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com5745redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 19:38Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com5805redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · 100 Excuses for Designers -- Because sometimes you need one! · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/100-excuses-for-designers-because-sometimes-you-need-one · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.