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MEL Chemistry

Education — New chemistry experiment every week delivered to your door [Tech]
Educationsubscriptionest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 45.8 · 2/4
45.8
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
+9.6
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+9.6).

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 17 probesavg response 3981 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
melscience.com
edge
direct origin
server
gunicorn
Tranco rank
#285,814
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

MEL Chemistry's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 45.8 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 4 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
Bill Nye Subscription Boxecommercetag-overlap100%9.4-8.0— unverified
Blue Moon Boxeducationsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Tinker Crateeducationsimilar80%2.80.0■ inactive
ByteSize Boxeducationsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
MateCapshealthtag-overlap75%40.0+32.0● live
Breathe in Boxecommercetag-overlap75%8.00.0— unverified
Sparkieducationsimilar75%40.0+9.6● live
Doozy: Play's Backeducationsimilar75%30.4+22.4● 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 modelsubscription
Liveness tierquiet
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
2026-08-28 00:19Z200melscience.comgunicorn3233alive
2026-08-19 14:14Z200melscience.comgunicorn2203alive
2026-08-11 00:48Z200melscience.comgunicorn2103alive
2026-08-08 06:43Z200melscience.comgunicorn4082alive
2026-08-05 19:01Z200melscience.comgunicorn3457alive
2026-07-30 18:16Z200melscience.comgunicorn4138alive
2026-07-23 09:38Z200melscience.comgunicorn9442alive
2026-07-17 09:42Z10001timeout
2026-07-11 09:01Z200melscience.comgunicorn5848alive
2026-07-04 12:59Z200melscience.comgunicorn6115alive
2026-06-23 14:07Z200melscience.comgunicorn1269alive
2026-06-21 17:12Z200melscience.comgunicorn667alive
2026-06-21 17:12Z200melscience.comgunicorn1566alive
2026-06-20 05:01Z200melscience.comgunicorn1616alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · MEL Chemistry · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/mel-chemistry · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.