The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+8.0).
HTTP liveness
real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026 → Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified
Signal telemetry
4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 16 probesavg response 3022 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.
generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative
Local Motors's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://homegrail.com/what-was-local-motors-and-the-3d-printed-olli-shuttle/) when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. Its Pulse Index is 20.9 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. 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.
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 modelhardware-sales
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▾
PROBED
HTTP
ORIGIN → RESOLVED
SERVER
MS
VERDICT
2026-08-27 18:39Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
4852
redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 13:53Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
1748
redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 00:29Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
2394
redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:21Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
2907
redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 18:41Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
3547
redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 17:55Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
2967
redirected_offsite
2026-07-22 09:46Z
—
—
—
10003
timeout
2026-07-17 09:28Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
1287
redirected_offsite
2026-07-10 10:51Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
1563
redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 09:42Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
3207
redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 13:57Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
2049
redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 10:52Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
1670
redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 00:41Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
2188
redirected_offsite
2026-06-18 22:58Z
200
localmotors.com → homegrail.com
cloudflare
1923
redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Local Motors · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/local-motors · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.