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How I Got 2.3 Million Downloads

Education — How an app built in 6 hours got 2
Educationest. 2015
● Verified live
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

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. 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 2533 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
appbot.co
edge
direct origin
server
AmazonS3
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

How I Got 2.3 Million Downloads's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. 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
Hello Tech Pros: Contemplating Suicide Taught Me This About Social Anxietyeducationsimilar100%16.0+8.0→ redirected
You Don't Know JS: Up & Goingeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Developmenteducationsimilar100%23.60.0→ redirected
Hacker Experienceeducationsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
How to Build a Career in Tech, by Product Hunteducationsimilar75%— unverified
Hack to Start - Tracy Chou, Founding Team, Project Include (Prev. Pinterest & Quora)educationsimilar75%40.00.0● live
Wired For Codingeducationsimilar75%16.00.0→ redirected
Spell It Outeducationsimilar75%8.0-8.0— 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 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 12:09Z200appbot.coAmazonS3788alive
2026-08-18 13:18Z200appbot.coAmazonS3797alive
2026-08-11 00:14Z200appbot.coAmazonS3845alive
2026-08-08 06:05Z200appbot.coAmazonS3898alive
2026-08-05 18:26Z200appbot.coAmazonS31236alive
2026-07-30 17:40Z200appbot.coAmazonS31271alive
2026-07-18 15:34Z200appbot.coAmazonS31381alive
2026-07-16 09:45Z200appbot.coAmazonS31630alive
2026-07-10 10:34Z200appbot.coAmazonS32286alive
2026-07-04 09:24Z200appbot.coAmazonS32720alive
2026-06-23 13:43Z200appbot.coAmazonS36148alive
2026-06-21 22:00Z200appbot.coAmazonS31328alive
2026-06-20 20:07Z200appbot.coAmazonS3986alive
2026-06-19 15:22Z13142timeout
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · How I Got 2.3 Million Downloads · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/how-i-got-2-3-million-downloads · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.