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Friction

Developer Tools — Build Hybrid Apps in the Cloud [Android, iOS, iPad]
Developer Toolsest. 2016
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 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

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. 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 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 17 probesavg response 1884 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
friction.io
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Friction's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it inactive. 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: 3 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
Authysecuritytag-overlap100%49.20.0● live
IoT Application Development for Automotive Industrydev-toolssimilar75%0.00.0■ inactive
BugClipperdev-toolssimilar60%40.0+32.0● live
Mobile App Developmentdev-toolssimilar60%40.00.0● live
XNOR.AIai-toolstag-overlap60%8.00.0— unverified
TeamMeUpentertainmenttag-overlap60%8.00.0— unverified
If You Can Managerproductivitytag-overlap60%— unverified
Techstraentertainmenttag-overlap60%0.00.0■ 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 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
2026-08-26 12:08Z530friction.iocloudflare1073dead_5xx
2026-08-18 13:16Z200friction.iocloudflare1311alive
2026-08-11 00:13Z200friction.iocloudflare1704alive
2026-08-08 06:03Z200friction.iocloudflare1078alive
2026-08-05 18:24Z200friction.iocloudflare1486alive
2026-07-30 17:38Z200friction.iocloudflare1315alive
2026-07-18 15:33Z200friction.iocloudflare1656alive
2026-07-16 09:44Z200friction.iocloudflare2313alive
2026-07-10 10:33Z200friction.iocloudflare2270alive
2026-07-04 09:22Z200friction.iocloudflare6692alive
2026-06-23 13:41Z200friction.iocloudflare1493alive
2026-06-21 21:58Z200friction.iocloudflare1527alive
2026-06-20 20:06Z200friction.iocloudflare1348alive
2026-06-19 15:20Z200friction.iocloudflare1103alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Friction · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/friction · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.