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Poof

Communication — The first disappearing app [Tech]
Communicationest. 2014
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+8.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
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 momentum is positive over 30 days (+8.0). 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 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 2622 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
youtube.com
edge
direct origin
server
ESF
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Poof's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUpZEYeD22k) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 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: 3 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
Flipside Walletfinancetag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Vanish Messengercommunicationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
X-VPNsecuritytag-overlap100%48.00.0● live
CryptKeycommunicationsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Liquid Walletfinancetag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Cloak for Androidsecuritytag-overlap100%0.00.0■ inactive
Tack Appcommunicationsimilar100%8.0-32.0— unverified
Playtestgamingtag-overlap100%16.00.0→ redirected

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
2026-08-28 00:40Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF1185redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:35Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF1991redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 01:08Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF1654redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 07:05Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF2157redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:21Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF2270redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:36Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF2147redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 15:18Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF1428redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 09:14Z10005timeout
2026-07-12 09:13Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF4251redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 13:20Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF2318redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:30Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF1875redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:35Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF1748redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:35Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF1661redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 06:57Z200bit.ly → youtube.comESF2023redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Poof · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/poof-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.