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Popchat

Entertainment — Make new friends & play trivia [Messaging, Robots, Free Games]
Entertainmentfreemiumest. 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
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
6
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
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 18 probesavg response 2233 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
bots.kik.com
edge
direct origin
server
Google Frontend
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Popchat's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://bots.kik.com/) 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: 6 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
MojiHuntentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
ZECARcommunicationtag-overlap100%0.00.0■ inactive
Micdentertainmentsimilar86%8.00.0— unverified
Messenger Huntentertainmentsimilar83%8.00.0— unverified
Kik Hashtagsentertainmentsimilar83%40.0+32.0● live
Bitcoin Price Bot for Telegramfinancetag-overlap83%40.00.0● live
Showgo 2.0entertainmentsimilar83%0.00.0■ inactive
Pechorentertainmentsimilar83%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 modelfreemium
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 14:34Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend5509redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 14:05Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1435redirected_offsite
2026-08-10 00:28Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1131redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 05:03Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1487redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 16:00Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1437redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:54Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend6466redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:38Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend2297redirected_offsite
2026-07-14 09:32Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend2888redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:34Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1573redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 01:11Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1329redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 13:19Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1130redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:37Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1393redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 19:44Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend1084redirected_offsite
2026-06-19 13:24Z200tinyurl.com → bots.kik.comGoogle Frontend2106redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Popchat · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/popchat · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.