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Medium

Hardware — A minimalistic watchface for Fitbit Versa and Ionic devices that combines print design aesthetic…
Hardware
▲ Rising
Category standing real
82th pctl · Hardware
30.0
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#250
Category rank
of 5,243 · real
68th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
16%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 13.216.8 across 150 readings (+3.6). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
68
Signal (category) real
82
Profile maturity real
67
Tag breadth real
2
Network position sparse
100
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate
16%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 24% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

  • LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

Medium sits in the 68th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #250 of 5,243 in Hardware. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 16% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 26 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +27.1).

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity

No comparable set could be resolved for this product.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
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.