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Heroic Labs

Developer Tools — Backend for game developers [Tech]
Developer Toolssaasest. 2015
▲ Rising
Category standing real
36th pctl · Developer Tools
18.6
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#4,190
Category rank
of 7,723 · real
46th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
72%
Mortality P(dead)
verified label · real

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 7.511.1 across 25 readings (+3.6). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
46
Signal (category) real
36
Profile maturity real
46
Tag breadth real
86
Network position sparse
0
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

verified label
72%
P(inactive)
Elevated risk
Higher risk than 63% of the universe.

This product carries a verified outcome label (“surviving”) — it is one of 600 hand-labeled cases the model is trained and tested on.

  • 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

Heroic Labs sits in the 46th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #4,190 of 7,723 in Developer Tools. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 72% — a verified outcome label. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +47.6).

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Branchmetricsdev-toolssimilar15.794%
Native Analytics by Keen IOdev-toolssimilar18.632%
Jumprockdev-toolssimilar25.72%
ZeroPushdev-toolssimilar15.732%
Cronhub Schedulerdev-toolssimilar32.92%
Notific.iodev-toolssimilar25.730%
Formspreedev-toolssimilar32.90%
Apitodev-toolssimilar32.91%

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 modelsaas
Liveness tiersunset
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.