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Megacool

Developer Tools — Simple SDK to record and share gameplay as a GIF — The Megacool SDK provides GIF capturing and s…
Developer ToolsWeak defense · data moat (weak)est. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 18.6 · 2/4
18.6
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
6
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.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 12, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 1762 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
megacool.medal.tv
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
#1,585,568
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Megacool's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://megacool.medal.tv/blog/wrapping-up/) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. Its Pulse Index is 18.6 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 6 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
Videogram Auto Embed for YouTube, Vimeo, & DailyMotiondev-toolssimilar100%40.00.0● live
GreedyGame SDK Xmarketingtag-overlap83%48.40.0● live
SYNQdev-toolssimilar83%8.0-24.8— unverified
Ziggeodev-toolssimilar83%46.70.0● live
Periscope Producer APIdev-toolssimilar83%16.00.0→ redirected
Sociagramdev-toolssimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
GiftGaminggamingtag-overlap71%32.8+2.4● live
Bitmovin Adaptive Streaming Playerdev-toolssimilar71%17.20.0— 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 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
2026-08-24 13:41Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1583redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:23Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1430redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:19Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare2347redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:23Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1938redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:21Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1709redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:15Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1939redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:00Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare3427redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 13:47Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare2170redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 15:54Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare2067redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:32Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1556redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:29Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1261redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 10:48Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare661redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 16:53Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1369redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 12:19Z200megacool.co → megacool.medal.tvcloudflare1210redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Megacool · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/megacool-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.