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Bestfolios 2.0

Design — Portfolio website and resume collection from best designers — Bestfolios 2
Designest. 2018
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 1.7 · 2/4
1.7
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
-40.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
22
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-40.0) — observed activity is receding. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
22 probes · Jun 11, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 95% of 22 probesavg response 2643 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
bestfolios.com
edge
direct origin
server
awselb/2.0
Tranco rank
#1,954,189
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Bestfolios 2.0's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it inactive. Its Pulse Index is 1.7 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Dribbbledesigncurated40.00.0● live
Behancedesigncurated40.0+32.0● live
Creating a Design System: The Online Guidedesignsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Shravan Portfoliodesignsimilar100%40.00.0● live
UI Tips for Web Design Enthusiastsdesignsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
Colorsdesignsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Best Design Post 2016designsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
UX Recipedesignsimilar100%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 modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives2
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 13:16Z502bestfolios.comawselb/2.02527dead_5xx
2026-08-13 13:47Z200bestfolios.com2577alive
2026-08-09 18:56Z200bestfolios.com2408alive
2026-08-08 03:59Z200bestfolios.com1975alive
2026-07-30 20:13Z200bestfolios.com1823alive
2026-07-26 16:53Z200bestfolios.com1851alive
2026-07-18 13:38Z200bestfolios.com2225alive
2026-07-13 13:27Z200bestfolios.com2080alive
2026-07-04 15:32Z200bestfolios.com4019alive
2026-07-03 00:10Z200bestfolios.com3347alive
2026-06-28 12:50Z200bestfolios.com4262alive
2026-06-24 10:21Z200bestfolios.com3451alive
2026-06-22 12:49Z200bestfolios.com2247alive
2026-06-21 00:30Z200bestfolios.com2215alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Bestfolios 2.0 · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/bestfolios-2-0 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.