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Christmas Present Thing

Finance — From Crowdrise, give back instead of giving something dumb [Tech]
Financeest. 2014
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 24.5 · 2/4
24.5
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
+8.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+8.0).

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 4035 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
gofundme.com
edge
direct origin
server
nginx
Tranco rank
#35,473
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Christmas Present Thing's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.gofundme.com/c/crowdrise) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. Its Pulse Index is 24.5 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 4 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
Scroogefinancesimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Pandofinancesimilar100%40.00.0● live
usnumber.sitecommunicationtag-overlap100%— unverified
Smarter Investing (Financial Times)financesimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
SunnyRevothertag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Don't Blow Upfinancesimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
MoneyMadefinancesimilar100%45.80.0● live
Notesproductivitytag-overlap100%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
2026-08-28 00:36Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx4044redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:31Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx6536redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 01:04Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx5164redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 07:01Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx2585redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:17Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx2628redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:32Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx2364redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 15:15Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx2875redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 09:09Z10012timeout
2026-07-11 09:23Z10006timeout
2026-07-04 13:17Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx2315redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:26Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx1844redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:31Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx2080redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:31Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx2076redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 06:53Z200crowdrise.com → gofundme.comnginx1965redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Christmas Present Thing · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/christmas-present-thing · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.