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Nightmare Machine

AI Tools — Horror imagery generated by artificial intelligence [Artificial Intelligence, Tech]
AI ToolsPartly defensible · data moat (moderate)est. 2016
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
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. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 2343 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
scratchfoundation.org
edge
direct origin
server
Scratch Cat
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Nightmare Machine's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.scratchfoundation.org/home) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. 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: 5 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
Magic Editai-toolssimilar100%20.80.0→ redirected
Photo Blender Backgroundai-toolssimilar100%32.80.0● live
ARCHITECTONICPHOTO.COMdesigntag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
DREAMBITai-toolssimilar100%40.0+7.2● live
Type to Designdesigntag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
ChatGptImgsai-toolssimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
DMeshai-toolssimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
MagePrintsdesigntag-overlap100%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 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 14:30Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgScratch Cat6405redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 14:02Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgScratch Cat1971redirected_offsite
2026-08-10 00:26Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgScratch Cat1712redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 05:01Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgScratch Cat1889redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:58Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgScratch Cat2291redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:52Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgScratch Cat2767redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:36Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgScratch Cat2786redirected_offsite
2026-07-14 09:29Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgScratch Cat2645redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:32Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgistio-envoy1820redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 01:09Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgistio-envoy1432redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 14:08Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgistio-envoy2036redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 13:17Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgistio-envoy2127redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:35Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgistio-envoy1341redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 19:41Z200scratch.mit.edu → scratchfoundation.orgistio-envoy1581redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Nightmare Machine · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/nightmare-machine · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.