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Lightspeed Retail

Ecommerce — An all-in-one POS for your Retail Store [Android, iOS, iPad]
EcommercePartly defensible · network effects (moderate)saasest. 2015
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
8
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. 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 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 3443 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
lightspeedhq.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Lightspeed Retail's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.lightspeedhq.com/onsite/) when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. 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: 8 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
ExperienceFellowanalyticstag-overlap100%8.0-8.0→ redirected
Attendsureproductivitytag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
MarketForce 360marketingtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Tulip Retailecommercesimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
icibotproductivitytag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
NoWaitcommunicationtag-overlap100%4.30.0■ inactive
Timecardproductivitytag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Kopafoodecommercesimilar100%32.8+24.8● 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 modelsaas
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives1
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
2026-08-27 18:40Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare5339redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 13:54Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare4419redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 00:29Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare2460redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:22Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare3276redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 18:42Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare3966redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 17:56Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare2430redirected_offsite
2026-07-22 09:46Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare2536redirected_offsite
2026-07-17 09:29Z10012timeout
2026-07-10 10:51Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare2831redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 09:43Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare3265redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 13:58Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare2065redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:01Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare1031redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:01Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare1766redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 00:42Z200lightspeedpos.com → lightspeedhq.comcloudflare2803redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Lightspeed Retail · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/lightspeed-retail · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.