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Happy Mitten - 21: Board Games, Business, and Dan Hsu

Entertainment — What can the board game industry can learn from video games?
Entertainmentest. 2016
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
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

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. 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 0% of 17 probesavg response 808 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
happymittengames.com
edge
direct origin
server
Apache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.28
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Happy Mitten - 21: Board Games, Business, and Dan Hsu's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. 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
Too Embarrassed to Ask - What are the best podcasts?entertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
This Week in Startups - Ep. 581: The Future of Transportationentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment - 27: Live from Bumbershoot with Neko Case and Rachel Flotardentertainmentsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
Hustle Culture - 08: Roberto Blake & MoniQue Hoffmanentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Comedy Bang Bang - Farts and Procreationentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
The Pseudo Show #28 - I'd Rather Sweat In A Storage Unit: A Conversation with Daisy Faceentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Product People - EP75 with Jason Zookentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+9.6● live
The App Guy Podcast : Ep. 303 STUART HALL : HOW I GOT 2.3 MILLION APP DOWNLOADSentertainmentsimilar100%30.4+22.4— 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 modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
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 12:05Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.281050unknown
2026-08-18 13:14Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.28244unknown
2026-08-11 00:11Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.28433unknown
2026-08-08 06:01Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.281219unknown
2026-08-05 18:22Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.281166unknown
2026-07-30 17:36Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.28313unknown
2026-07-18 15:31Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.281163unknown
2026-07-16 09:42Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.281179unknown
2026-07-10 10:31Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.281141unknown
2026-07-04 09:20Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.28639unknown
2026-06-23 13:39Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.28942unknown
2026-06-21 21:57Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.28360unknown
2026-06-20 20:04Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.28457unknown
2026-06-19 15:19Z403happymittengames.comApache/2.2.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/5.4.281009unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Happy Mitten - 21: Board Games, Business, and Dan Hsu · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/happy-mitten-21-board-games-business-and-dan-hsu · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.