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Communication — Networking without business cards
CommunicationWeak defense · network effects (weak)est. 2014
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 19, 2026
Pulse 32.8 · 1/4
32.8
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
-7.2
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
7
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-7.2) — observed activity is receding. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 19, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 16 probesavg response 2110 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
nearapp.co
edge
direct origin
server
nginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Near's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 19, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 7 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
Photodott.comecommercetag-overlap88%8.00.0— unverified
Dooingproductivitytag-overlap86%8.00.0— unverified
Dingproductivitytag-overlap86%40.00.0● live
Preso.tvproductivitytag-overlap86%8.00.0— unverified
Knoweemarketingtag-overlap78%41.00.0● live
Toro Timer (Early Access)productivitytag-overlap78%40.00.0● live
CNVERGproductivitytag-overlap78%8.00.0— unverified
MoIDproductivitytag-overlap75%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 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
2026-08-19 14:44Z200nearapp.conginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)3498alive
2026-08-11 13:56Z200nearapp.conginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)334alive
2026-08-08 23:35Z10009timeout
2026-08-05 19:29Z200nearapp.conginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)1648alive
2026-07-30 18:45Z200nearapp.conginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)1751alive
2026-07-26 15:26Z200nearapp.conginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)1676alive
2026-07-18 12:11Z200nearapp.conginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)981alive
2026-07-12 09:23Z200nearapp.conginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)273alive
2026-07-04 13:29Z200nearapp.conginx/1.28.3 (Ubuntu)4941alive
2026-06-23 14:39Z200nearapp.coopenresty1088alive
2026-06-21 17:43Z200nearapp.coopenresty933alive
2026-06-21 17:43Z200nearapp.coopenresty1007alive
2026-06-20 07:07Z200nearapp.coopenresty721alive
2026-06-19 05:34Z200nearapp.coopenresty680alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Near · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/near · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.