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Dark Sky

Entertainment — Dark Sky delivers minute-by-minute weather updates with stunning visual design
Entertainmentest. 2014
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 9.1 · 2/4
9.1
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
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 has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

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

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 972 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
#2,343,121
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Dark Sky'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. Its Pulse Index is 9.1 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 4 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Errivaltraveltag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
7 Minute Prayer Challengehealthtag-overlap100%0.00.0■ inactive
HomeFixerproductivitytag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
PAX Mobile 2.0hardwaretag-overlap100%1.4-8.0■ inactive
Docastentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Workout Journalhealthtag-overlap100%0.00.0■ inactive
Acompli (Android)communicationtag-overlap100%15.40.0— unverified
PeakVisortraveltag-overlap100%47.00.0● 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 tierunknown
Competitive alternatives4
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 12:23Z1514unknown
2026-08-11 14:32Z283unknown
2026-08-11 14:32Z1598unknown
2026-08-09 00:13Z2310unknown
2026-08-05 20:04Z474unknown
2026-07-30 19:21Z170unknown
2026-07-26 16:01Z117unknown
2026-07-18 12:46Z548unknown
2026-07-12 18:11Z1096unknown
2026-07-04 14:05Z1845unknown
2026-06-23 15:16Z475unknown
2026-06-21 18:19Z26unknown
2026-06-21 18:19Z167unknown
2026-06-20 07:46Z2984unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Dark Sky · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/dark-sky-1039 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.