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Refined Medium

Productivity — Chrome & Firefox extension that removes clutter on Medium — Medium
Productivityest. 2017
→ 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
20
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 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
20 probes · Jun 13, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 20 probesavg response 2037 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
refined-medium.vercel.app
edge
direct origin
server
Vercel
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Refined Medium's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://refined-medium.vercel.app/) 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: 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
Clicking Badgamingtag-overlap100%40.0+32.0● live
Cooooookiesothertag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
MSOutlookitproductivitysimilar100%40.00.0● live
Emojify Everythingproductivitysimilar100%40.00.0● live
FixBlox.comentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
DinoJumpgamingtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Mac Buyer's Guideothertag-overlap100%49.60.0● live
Yandex Browserothertag-overlap100%49.90.0● live

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
2026-08-24 13:46Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel1325redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:28Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel1538redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:24Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel1518redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:28Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel2342redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:27Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel2597redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:21Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel2336redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:05Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel3443redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 13:53Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel2934redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:00Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel3515redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:38Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel3001redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:34Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel1385redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 10:57Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel1151redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 16:58Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel234redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 16:58Z200refined-medium.now.sh → refined-medium.vercel.appVercel1200redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Refined Medium · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/refined-medium · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.