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101 Hero, Affordable 3D Printer for Everyone

Hardware — 101 Hero is an affordable 3D printer designed to democratize additive manufacturing for hobbyist…
Hardwarehardware-salesest. 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
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
8
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

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

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 18% of 17 probesavg response 673 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
kickstarter.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

101 Hero, Affordable 3D Printer for Everyone'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: 8 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
CocoTerrahardwaresimilar88%40.00.0● live
NEVAhardwaresimilar88%16.0+8.0→ redirected
Readyboxhardwaresimilar88%40.00.0● live
Mini Suitcase Lash Packagingecommercetag-overlap78%40.00.0● live
Sphere Neodymium Magnetshardwaresimilar78%0.00.0— unverified
HARAchairhardwaresimilar78%40.0+7.2● live
New Matterhardwaresimilar78%0.0-8.0■ inactive
Luxaforhardwaresimilar78%30.4+22.4● live

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 modelhardware-sales
Liveness tierquiet
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 12:16Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare206cf_block
2026-08-11 14:25Z200kickstarter.comcloudflare1963alive
2026-08-11 14:25Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare369cf_block
2026-08-09 00:05Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare77cf_block
2026-08-05 19:57Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare727cf_block
2026-07-30 19:13Z200kickstarter.comcloudflare1087alive
2026-07-26 15:54Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare181cf_block
2026-07-18 12:39Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare657cf_block
2026-07-12 18:03Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare484cf_block
2026-07-04 13:58Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare659cf_block
2026-06-23 15:09Z200kickstarter.comcloudflare2337alive
2026-06-21 18:12Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare47cf_block
2026-06-21 18:12Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare69cf_block
2026-06-20 07:38Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare563cf_block
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · 101 Hero, Affordable 3D Printer for Everyone · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/101-hero-affordable-3d-printer-for-everyone · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.