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redBus

Travel — redBus is the number 1 inter-city bus ticketing service [Travel, Transportation, Tech]
TravelWeak defense · distribution moat (weak)marketplaceest. 2017
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 17.8 · 2/4
17.8
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
36
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
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.

HTTP liveness

real
36 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 36 probesavg response 10004 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
#2,876
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

redBus's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 17.8 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 3 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
busbudtravelcurated40.00.0● live
BlaBlaCarecommercetag-overlap100%39.3+22.4● live
Game Ongamingtag-overlap100%0.00.0■ inactive
Koalahgamingtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
BGF : Flowers, Cake & Gift Delivery Appecommercetag-overlap100%40.80.0● live
ecoeatsecommercetag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Uber Local Offersecommercetag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Draft Kingsentertainmenttag-overlap100%17.4-32.0— 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 modelmarketplace
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives3
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
2026-08-27 18:14Z10000timeout
2026-08-26 09:44Z10001timeout
2026-08-19 14:05Z10008timeout
2026-08-11 00:40Z10014timeout
2026-08-08 06:33Z10010timeout
2026-08-05 18:52Z10003timeout
2026-07-30 18:07Z10010timeout
2026-07-23 09:28Z10001timeout
2026-07-22 09:32Z9999timeout
2026-07-21 09:33Z10000timeout
2026-07-20 10:00Z10001timeout
2026-07-19 09:12Z10002timeout
2026-07-18 08:52Z10001timeout
2026-07-17 09:14Z10001timeout
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · redBus · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/redbus · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.