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Hack Club

Education — Free and open source high school coding clubs 👊💥 [Open Source, Education, Developer Tools]
Educationopen-sourceest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 47.4 · 2/4
47.4
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
7
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 19 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 19 probesavg response 638 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
hackclub.com
edge
direct origin
server
Vercel
Tranco rank
#103,019
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Hack Club's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 47.4 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 7 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
JSRoboteducationsimilar75%0.00.0■ inactive
freeCodeCampeducationsimilar75%42.3-7.2● live
Google Computer Science Educationeducationsimilar71%40.00.0● live
MockMeistereducationsimilar71%16.00.0→ redirected
UXReactor Open Trainingeducationsimilar67%8.00.0— unverified
Prampeducationsimilar67%44.30.0● live
CodeGuppyeducationsimilar67%40.00.0● live
uiverse.iodev-toolstag-overlap63%47.6+9.6● live

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 modelopen-source
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
2026-08-24 14:16Z200hackclub.comVercel358alive
2026-08-17 13:56Z200hackclub.comVercel447alive
2026-08-10 00:20Z200hackclub.comVercel1244alive
2026-08-08 04:55Z200hackclub.comVercel806alive
2026-07-31 15:53Z200hackclub.comVercel268alive
2026-07-26 17:47Z200hackclub.comVercel464alive
2026-07-18 14:30Z200hackclub.comVercel413alive
2026-07-14 09:22Z200hackclub.comVercel354alive
2026-07-04 16:25Z200hackclub.comVercel1192alive
2026-07-03 01:04Z200hackclub.comVercel382alive
2026-06-24 14:02Z200hackclub.comVercel695alive
2026-06-23 13:11Z200hackclub.comVercel1092alive
2026-06-21 21:30Z200hackclub.comVercel599alive
2026-06-20 19:36Z200hackclub.comVercel618alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Hack Club · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/hack-club · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.