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RANDOM BADASSERY--Nerds That Are Rough Around the Edges

Entertainment — This week the guys dissect their experience with podcasting [Music]
Entertainmentest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. 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 100% of 17 probesavg response 714 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
soundcloud.com
edge
direct origin
server
am/2
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

RANDOM BADASSERY--Nerds That Are Rough Around the Edges's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. 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
29 Black Podcast That I LOVE!entertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Pt. 2: How $11k Wrapped in Bacon Helped Build a Mobile Gaming Hit-Factoryentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Pilot - Morning Programentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
IDEO Futures - Ep.26: Bryce Roberts from OATV + Indie.vc; + a look back at 2015entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Nerdist - Reggie Wattsentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Music Popcast - Lin-Manuel Miranda On How Hip-Hop Influenced Him and 'Hamilton'entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Exchange with Nathaniel Whittemoreentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Beau talks becoming a podcaster, finding your podcasting niche, how this niche went global & a lot more!entertainmentsimilar100%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 tierquiet
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
2026-08-26 10:09Z200soundcloud.comam/2700alive
2026-08-18 13:02Z200soundcloud.comam/2835alive
2026-08-11 00:00Z200soundcloud.comam/21112alive
2026-08-08 05:49Z200soundcloud.comam/21538alive
2026-08-05 18:12Z200soundcloud.comam/2273alive
2026-07-30 17:26Z200soundcloud.comam/2921alive
2026-07-18 15:20Z200soundcloud.comam/21048alive
2026-07-16 09:30Z200soundcloud.comam/2185alive
2026-07-09 10:52Z200soundcloud.comam/2256alive
2026-07-04 04:05Z200soundcloud.comam/21140alive
2026-06-23 13:29Z200soundcloud.comam/2110alive
2026-06-21 21:46Z200soundcloud.comam/2732alive
2026-06-20 19:53Z200soundcloud.comam/2846alive
2026-06-19 15:08Z200soundcloud.comam/2297alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · RANDOM BADASSERY--Nerds That Are Rough Around the Edges · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/random-badassery-nerds-that-are-rough-around-the-edges · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.