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Kafka for Internet Archive

Entertainment — An open-source Android application providing ad-free access to Internet Archive's vast collectio…
Entertainmentopen-source
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 0.0 · 1/4
0.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
15
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
9
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. 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
15 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 15 probesavg response 1336 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
play.google.com
edge
direct origin
server
ESF
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Kafka for Internet Archive's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it inactive. 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: 9 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
This Side of Paradiseeducationtag-overlap70%49.70.0● live
Tsacdopentertainmentsimilar67%8.00.0— unverified
The Iliadentertainmentsimilar67%40.0+7.2— unverified
Project Gutenbergentertainmentsimilar64%49.70.0● live
BookZZentertainmentsimilar60%43.20.0● live
VLC for Mobileentertainmentsimilar60%17.70.0— unverified
Soundojieducationtag-overlap60%0.00.0■ inactive
Planet Money - The Benefits of Bankruptcyeducationtag-overlap60%8.00.0— 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 modelopen-source
Liveness tiersunset
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 10:00Z404play.google.comESF1194dead_404
2026-08-18 12:54Z404play.google.comESF656dead_404
2026-08-10 01:05Z404play.google.comESF597dead_404
2026-08-08 05:41Z404play.google.comESF1293dead_404
2026-08-05 18:04Z404play.google.comESF2313dead_404
2026-07-30 17:17Z404play.google.comESF536dead_404
2026-07-18 15:13Z404play.google.comESF1928dead_404
2026-07-16 09:21Z404play.google.comESF863dead_404
2026-07-09 10:44Z404play.google.comESF2991dead_404
2026-07-04 03:56Z404play.google.comESF2370dead_404
2026-06-21 22:14Z404play.google.comESF900dead_404
2026-06-20 20:21Z404play.google.comESF987dead_404
2026-06-19 10:22Z404play.google.comESF1567dead_404
2026-06-18 01:04Z404play.google.comESF505dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Kafka for Internet Archive · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/kafka-for-internet-archive · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.