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RubySteps

Education — A daily coding practice
Educationest. 2014
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 19, 2026
Pulse 0.0 · 1/4
0.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
-8.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-8.0) — observed activity is receding. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 19, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 16 probesavg response 2784 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
patmaddox.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#1,506,107
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

RubySteps's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 19, 2026, so we mark it inactive. 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: 4 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
JSOneeducationsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
How to teach yourself codingeducationsimilar100%— unverified
StartupCloneeducationsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
MIT Internet of Things Bootcampeducationsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
CodeDammiteducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Codebasileducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Lean.Modern Developereducationsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Liz The Developereducationsimilar100%40.00.0● 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 tiersunset
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
2026-08-19 14:40Z404patmaddox.com2157dead_404
2026-08-11 01:13Z404patmaddox.com2054dead_404
2026-08-08 23:32Z404patmaddox.com2492dead_404
2026-08-05 19:25Z404patmaddox.com3868dead_404
2026-07-30 18:41Z404patmaddox.com2119dead_404
2026-07-26 15:23Z404patmaddox.com2124dead_404
2026-07-18 09:19Z10001timeout
2026-07-12 09:18Z404patmaddox.com3337dead_404
2026-07-04 13:25Z404patmaddox.com2207dead_404
2026-06-23 14:35Z404patmaddox.com1709dead_404
2026-06-21 17:39Z404patmaddox.com1470dead_404
2026-06-21 17:39Z404patmaddox.com2020dead_404
2026-06-20 07:03Z404patmaddox.com1717dead_404
2026-06-19 05:30Z404patmaddox.com1696dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · RubySteps · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/rubysteps · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.