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Secrets for Scaling: Ghost founder John O'Nolan

Entertainment — Building a profitable business w/ a counterculture approach [User Experience, Analytics, Growth …
Entertainmentest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 18 observations. 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
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 18 probesavg response 631 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
soundcloud.com
edge
direct origin
server
am/2
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Secrets for Scaling: Ghost founder John O'Nolan's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. 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
Seeking Wisdom: What We Learned Starting a Podcast in 2016entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Zen Founder - 34: The Secret Strategies of Successful Co-Founderseducationtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Love Your Work w/ David Kadavy – Laura Roeder of Edgarentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
The Fizzle Show: How We Deal With The Cesspool of Self Doubtentertainmentsimilar100%20.30.0→ redirected
The Tim Ferriss Show - Should you start a 'startup' or build a cash-flow business?entertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0— unverified
The SaaS Revolution Show: Olivier Pailhes, CEO of Aircallothertag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
The App Guy Podcast 353 - Ian Sellsentertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
BroadMic Startup Shortcuts -- Ep. #27: Dare to Dream Big: Q&A with "Dream, Girl" Director Erin Bagwelleducationtag-overlap100%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 tierquiet
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 14:09Z200soundcloud.comam/21315alive
2026-08-17 13:51Z200soundcloud.comam/21867alive
2026-08-10 00:16Z200soundcloud.comam/2275alive
2026-08-08 04:50Z200soundcloud.comam/21356alive
2026-07-31 15:48Z200soundcloud.comam/2447alive
2026-07-26 17:42Z200soundcloud.comam/2444alive
2026-07-18 14:26Z200soundcloud.comam/2934alive
2026-07-14 09:17Z200soundcloud.comam/2237alive
2026-07-04 16:21Z200soundcloud.comam/2279alive
2026-07-03 00:59Z200soundcloud.comam/2177alive
2026-06-24 13:57Z200soundcloud.comam/2183alive
2026-06-23 13:07Z200soundcloud.comam/2842alive
2026-06-21 21:26Z200soundcloud.comam/2211alive
2026-06-20 19:32Z200soundcloud.comam/2264alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Secrets for Scaling: Ghost founder John O'Nolan · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/secrets-for-scaling-ghost-founder-john-o-nolan · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.