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Darkroom

Design — Efficient, powerful photo editor for iOS (pre-launch) [iOS, User Experience, Photography]
Designest. 2015
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
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

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. 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 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 2286 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
darkroom.co
edge
direct origin
server
Netlify
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Darkroom's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://darkroom.co/) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. 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
Audrey - Capture Every Detail With a DSLR Quality Manual Cameradesignsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Freeshotentertainmenttag-overlap100%30.4+22.4● live
Neeatdesignsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Oilistdesignsimilar100%40.0+2.4● live
Lens Distortionsdesignsimilar100%43.30.0● live
Layout – Fifty Shades of Whitedesignsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Leanifieddesignsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Auroradesignsimilar100%0.0-0.6■ inactive

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 00:31Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1750redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:26Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify2828redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 01:00Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1747redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:56Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify3288redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:13Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify4431redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:28Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1763redirected_offsite
2026-07-23 09:54Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify3605redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 09:03Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1413redirected_offsite
2026-07-11 09:17Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify3323redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 13:12Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1641redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:21Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1470redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:26Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1357redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:26Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1777redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 05:15Z200usedarkroom.com → darkroom.coNetlify1608redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Darkroom · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/darkroom · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.