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Google Home Mini

Hardware — Small and mighty smart speaker, only $49 — Google Home Mini is the new smaller version of the po…
Hardwarehardwareest. 2018
● Stable
Category standing real
78th pctl · Hardware
25.7
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#937
Category rank
of 5,243 · real
63th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
4%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 11.1 → 23.2 across 38 readings (+12.1). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
63
Signal (category) real
78
Profile maturity real
63
Tag breadth real
48
Network position sparse
94
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — 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
4%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 9% 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 · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · 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 → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

Google Home Mini sits in the 63th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #937 of 5,243 in Hardware. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 4% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is roughly flat.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Amazon Echo Show 5hardwarecurated35.79%
Amazon Echo Spothardwaresimilar25.718%
Roav VIVAhardwaresimilar22.934%
Sonos Onehardwaresimilar25.728%
Amazon Echo (2nd Generation)hardwaresimilar18.69%
Sonos Boosthardwaresimilar15.784%
3Five6 and Ferdi Watcheshardwaresimilar22.958%
mobuhardwaresimilar25.758%

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 modelhardware
Liveness tierquiet
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

1 disclosed funding round on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →