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Kaboom by Hotspot Shield

Communication — Share messages & photos that disappear on any social network [Android, iOS, Messaging]
Communicationest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 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
4
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 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 3032 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
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Kaboom by Hotspot Shield's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 28, 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: 4 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
Scramblagesecuritytag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Tworldsentertainmenttag-overlap80%— unverified
Safety Photo+Videoproductivitytag-overlap80%0.00.0■ inactive
Nudeproductivitytag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
Keygo v1.0securitytag-overlap80%0.00.0■ inactive
Knogglentertainmenttag-overlap80%8.00.0— unverified
Wuucommunicationsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
TF KEYBOARD VAULT APPproductivitytag-overlap80%44.2+2.4● 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 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
2026-08-28 00:12Z1482unknown
2026-08-19 14:08Z860unknown
2026-08-11 00:42Z549unknown
2026-08-08 06:36Z918unknown
2026-08-05 18:55Z1069unknown
2026-07-30 18:09Z809unknown
2026-07-23 09:32Z10000timeout
2026-07-17 09:35Z6344unknown
2026-07-11 08:55Z10011timeout
2026-07-04 12:53Z4346unknown
2026-06-23 14:02Z1751unknown
2026-06-21 17:06Z985unknown
2026-06-21 17:06Z2227unknown
2026-06-20 00:47Z1103unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Kaboom by Hotspot Shield · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/kaboom-by-hotspot-shield · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.