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RescueTime

Productivity — Analytics on your daily habits and productivity [Linux, Mac, Tech]
Productivityfreemiumest. 2014
● Stable
Category standing real
42th pctl · Productivity
18.6
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#5,385
Category rank
of 10,124 · real
46th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
4%
Mortality P(dead)
verified label · real

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 7.511.1 across 15 readings (+3.6). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
46
Signal (category) real
42
Profile maturity real
46
Tag breadth real
97
Network position sparse
100
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles 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 label
4%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 10% of the universe.

This 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 narrative

RescueTime sits in the 46th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #5,385 of 10,124 in Productivity. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 4% — a verified outcome label. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 8 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is roughly flat.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Clockifyproductivitycurated25.72%
Paymo Desktop Time Tracking Widgetproductivitysimilar25.740%
Trademarkiaanalyticstag-overlap15.745%
Redesigned Statcounteranalyticstag-overlap25.70%
Vidoolyanalyticstag-overlap18.68%
IT rating UAanalyticstag-overlap30.01%
Productive AI Weeklycommunicationtag-overlap32.910%
Copyscapeproductivitysimilar15.70%

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 attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tierquiet
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.