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MinION

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Hardwareest. 2018
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 7.2 · 2/4
7.2
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
28
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. 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
28 probes · May 25, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 28 probesavg response 2744 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
nanoporetech.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#119,461
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

MinION's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it inactive. Its Pulse Index is 7.2 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
Analog Discovery 2hardwaresimilar80%22.30.0→ redirected
Baron Fig Confidantproductivitytag-overlap80%40.0+32.0● live
Mini Museum Third Editionothertag-overlap80%45.3+32.0● live
INNOSILICON A10 PRO+ 7GB ETH MINERhardwaresimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
Analytical Balancehealthtag-overlap75%40.50.0● live
Kilobaserhardwaresimilar75%40.00.0● live
Laboratory Shaker Incubatorhardwaresimilar75%40.50.0● live
Feles Oneeducationtag-overlap67%8.00.0— 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 tiersunset
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 13:21Z404nanoporetech.com2052dead_404
2026-08-13 13:52Z404nanoporetech.com2681dead_404
2026-08-09 19:01Z404nanoporetech.com2690dead_404
2026-08-08 04:04Z404nanoporetech.com3376dead_404
2026-07-30 20:17Z404nanoporetech.com3059dead_404
2026-07-26 16:58Z404nanoporetech.com2726dead_404
2026-07-18 13:43Z404nanoporetech.com2395dead_404
2026-07-13 13:31Z404nanoporetech.com3549dead_404
2026-07-04 15:36Z404nanoporetech.com3447dead_404
2026-07-03 00:15Z404nanoporetech.com2697dead_404
2026-06-24 10:28Z404nanoporetech.com2655dead_404
2026-06-22 12:57Z404nanoporetech.com1945dead_404
2026-06-21 00:34Z404nanoporetech.com2518dead_404
2026-06-20 00:24Z404nanoporetech.com2623dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · MinION · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/minion-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.