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Babel-17

Entertainment — Nebula-winning sci-fi from a master
Entertainmentsubscriptionest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+4.8
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
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 positive over 30 days (+4.8). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 88% of 16 probesavg response 2759 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

Babel-17's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 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
Bevelhealthtag-overlap100%44.2+32.0● live
NatureBoxecommercetag-overlap100%13.00.0— unverified
Amazon Prime Nowecommercetag-overlap100%40.0+32.0■ inactive
organiccowmilkinchennaiecommercetag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Just Enough Winesecommercetag-overlap100%40.0+32.0● live
planted basketecommercetag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Gobbleecommercetag-overlap100%45.50.0● live
Nextdoorganicsecommercetag-overlap100%40.0+32.0● 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 modelsubscription
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
2026-08-27 18:31Z10000timeout
2026-08-19 13:46Z200scribd.comenvoy1893alive
2026-08-11 00:23Z200scribd.comenvoy1154alive
2026-08-08 06:15Z200scribd.comenvoy1389alive
2026-08-05 18:36Z200scribd.comenvoy1657alive
2026-07-30 17:49Z200scribd.comenvoy978alive
2026-07-22 09:40Z200scribd.comenvoy1165alive
2026-07-17 09:22Z200scribd.comenvoy2604alive
2026-07-10 10:44Z200scribd.comenvoy2188alive
2026-07-04 09:35Z10004timeout
2026-06-23 13:52Z200scribd.comenvoy1307alive
2026-06-21 10:43Z200scribd.comenvoy1508alive
2026-06-20 00:36Z200scribd.comenvoy1481alive
2026-06-18 22:52Z200scribd.comenvoy1301alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Babel-17 · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/babel-17 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.