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Particle

Productivity — An open source blogging platform with inline editing [Open Source, Crowdfunding, Tech]
ProductivityWeak defense · data moat (weak)open-sourceest. 2016
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
9
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. 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
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 922 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
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Particle's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. 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: 9 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Chryz-Hub Blogscommunicationtag-overlap80%0.00.0■ inactive
OpenPaaScommunicationtag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
Sharetronixentertainmenttag-overlap75%41.4+32.0● live
Mastodon 2.0entertainmenttag-overlap71%49.40.0● live
Commentocommunicationtag-overlap70%40.00.0● live
Bluditdev-toolstag-overlap67%45.90.0● live
Gearhead Wikieducationtag-overlap67%8.00.0— unverified
Paperworkproductivitysimilar67%40.00.0● 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 modelopen-source
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives1
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
2026-08-26 10:12Z922unknown
2026-08-18 13:06Z57unknown
2026-08-11 00:03Z438unknown
2026-08-08 05:52Z238unknown
2026-08-05 18:15Z1337unknown
2026-07-30 17:29Z334unknown
2026-07-18 15:24Z2657unknown
2026-07-16 09:33Z721unknown
2026-07-09 10:56Z367unknown
2026-07-04 04:08Z1260unknown
2026-06-23 13:33Z123unknown
2026-06-21 21:49Z2003unknown
2026-06-20 19:56Z2268unknown
2026-06-19 15:11Z187unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Particle · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/particle-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.