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Fake Update

Entertainment — Prank your friends with fake update screens [Web App, Funny, Tech]
Entertainmentfreeest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 45.1 · 2/4
45.1
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
+7.2
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+7.2).

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 88% of 16 probesavg response 3096 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
#383,909
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Fake Update's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 45.1 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
StartupTileentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+9.6● live
Weird Little Valentinesentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+7.2● live
CryCertfinancetag-overlap80%42.30.0● live
How will the Aug 12 eclipse look like from your address?othertag-overlap80%40.0● live
Every shot Kobe Bryant ever tookanalyticstag-overlap80%49.90.0● live
PokéSlackproductivitytag-overlap80%30.4+22.4● live
MAZESPLACE Maze Generatorentertainmentsimilar80%0.00.0■ inactive
Where you taxes goanalyticstag-overlap80%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 modelfree
Liveness tierquiet
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
2026-08-27 18:38Z10006timeout
2026-08-19 13:53Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare1964alive
2026-08-11 00:29Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare1954alive
2026-08-08 06:21Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare1631alive
2026-08-05 18:41Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare2952alive
2026-07-30 17:55Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare1899alive
2026-07-22 09:45Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare2562alive
2026-07-17 09:28Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare1977alive
2026-07-10 10:51Z10000timeout
2026-07-04 09:42Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare3254alive
2026-06-23 13:57Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare1218alive
2026-06-21 10:52Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare833alive
2026-06-20 00:41Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare1444alive
2026-06-18 22:58Z200fakeupdate.netcloudflare1644alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Fake Update · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/fake-update · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.