Product Hunt Maker Stories - Felix Salmon
Signal trajectory
realSignal 6.1 → 12.7 across 40 readings (+6.7). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.
Cross-sectional profile
percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled productsPercentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.
Mortality outlook
verified labelThis product carries a verified outcome label (“surviving”) — it is one of 600 hand-labeled cases the model is trained and tested on.
- LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
- Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
- Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
- Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
- Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model
n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.
Analyst read
generated from the metrics above · no external narrativeProduct Hunt Maker Stories - Felix Salmon sits in the 1th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #4,369 of 11,555 in Entertainment. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 20% — a verified outcome label. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags. Signal momentum is roughly flat.
Comparable set
curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity| Company | Basis | Signal | P(dead) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meetings Podcast - The Six Event Success Strategiesentertainment | similar | 22.9 | 88% |
| Hit Reply – Episode 0: Yet Another Startup Podcast?entertainment | similar | 15.7 | 63% |
| Zero To Won - Ep. #1, Featuring Jason Lemkinentertainment | similar | 15.7 | 96% |
| The Startup Chat 132: How to relaunch your websiteentertainment | similar | 15.7 | 63% |
| Startup - #13 Fake It Til You Make Iteducation | tag-overlap | 15.7 | 51% |
| Building Nexcast Part 4 - Communityentertainment | similar | 15.7 | 63% |
| The Startup Chat 159: What to do when someone screwed you overentertainment | similar | 15.7 | 63% |
| ProCEEd > Podcast #5 – Where is your startup from?entertainment | similar | 15.7 | 85% |
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. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.
Structure
observed attributesFunding & team
real3 disclosed funding rounds on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →