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Black Startup Friday

Other — Collection of startup-related Black Friday specials [Web App, Tech]
Otherfreemiumest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 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
5
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 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 968 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

Black Startup Friday's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 26, 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: 5 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
Site of free adsecommercetag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Craigslistecommercetag-overlap100%23.60.0→ redirected
fastrak connectproductivitytag-overlap100%35.2+4.8● live
Monitofinancetag-overlap100%47.20.0● live
Official Black Wall Streetecommercetag-overlap100%0.00.0■ inactive
Ai Tools Diaryai-toolstag-overlap86%8.00.0— unverified
Blank Labelecommercetag-overlap86%8.00.0— unverified
Bachecubanoecommercetag-overlap86%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 modelfreemium
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
2026-08-26 12:15Z391unknown
2026-08-18 13:24Z59unknown
2026-08-11 00:20Z353unknown
2026-08-08 06:11Z105unknown
2026-08-05 18:32Z1210unknown
2026-07-30 17:46Z741unknown
2026-07-22 09:36Z1032unknown
2026-07-17 09:17Z1945unknown
2026-07-10 10:40Z486unknown
2026-07-04 09:31Z4318unknown
2026-06-23 13:48Z1383unknown
2026-06-21 22:06Z261unknown
2026-06-20 20:14Z339unknown
2026-06-19 16:53Z928unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Black Startup Friday · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/black-startup-friday-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.