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Requests for Startups

Ecommerce — A place to discover ideas that VCs & angels want to fund [Investing, Venture Capital, Tech]
EcommercePartly defensible · data moat (moderate)marketplaceest. 2015
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
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

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
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 2776 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
docs.google.com
edge
direct origin
server
GSE
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Requests for Startups's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxsQXNiZhfQE4EQ9bYIeiIzZB9JNae4UzPQVCOLBsrTNtVDQ/viewform) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 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
Product Hunt Handbookeducationtag-overlap85%16.00.0→ redirected
domdbecommercesimilar77%40.20.0● live
LemonAid Recruitingeducationtag-overlap73%40.00.0● live
Truth or Truthinesseducationtag-overlap71%16.00.0→ redirected
The Data Science Handbookeducationtag-overlap65%16.00.0→ redirected
Gopher Mailproductivitytag-overlap65%8.00.0— unverified
Shiftproductivitytag-overlap63%23.60.0→ redirected
Startup Sales Courseeducationtag-overlap63%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 modelmarketplace
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
2026-08-28 00:33Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE1932redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:28Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE3193redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 01:02Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE2016redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:58Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE2642redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 19:15Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE3073redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:29Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE2560redirected_offsite
2026-07-23 09:57Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE4243redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 09:06Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE4165redirected_offsite
2026-07-11 09:19Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE3848redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 13:14Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE2276redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 14:23Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE1867redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:28Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE2630redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 17:28Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE1870redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 06:50Z200requestsforstartups.com → docs.google.comGSE2545redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Requests for Startups · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/requests-for-startups · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.