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Expertrec custom search engine πŸ€—πŸ˜ŠπŸ˜ˆ

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Developer Toolssaasest. 2017
β–² Rising
Category standing real
46th pctl Β· Developer Tools
22.9
Signal score
0–100 composite Β· real
#3,535
Category rank
of 7,723 Β· real
53th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled Β· real
7%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. Β· model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 9.6 β†’ 13.2 across 25 readings (+3.6). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
53
Signal (category) real
46
Profile maturity real
53
Tag breadth real
86
Network position sparse
0
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions β€” network and press β€” reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate
7%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 14% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

  • LightGBM Β· binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 Β· CV AUC 0.79 Β± 0.05 Β· Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin β†’ 95% CI on AUC β‰ˆ Β±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above Β· no external narrative

Expertrec custom search engine πŸ€—πŸ˜ŠπŸ˜ˆ sits in the 53th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #3,535 of 7,723 in Developer Tools. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 7% β€” a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity β€” read it with the confidence flags. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +37.1).

Comparable set

curated alternatives β†’ functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
ProfitBot AIai-toolstag-overlap30.02%
Nixardev-toolssimilar15.711%
SmatBotdev-toolssimilar32.92%
Upsell by Emailecommercetag-overlap30.03%
Bonboardingdev-toolssimilar32.92%
Lean Name Searchdev-toolssimilar30.014%
Joinchatecommercetag-overlap30.03%
Ideapadmarketingtag-overlap32.93%

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. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
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 zeroβ€” we don't estimate a number we can't source.