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Shadertoy

Developer Tools — Build and share your best shaders with the world [iOS, iPad, Web App]
Developer ToolsWeak defense · data moat (weak)freemiumest. 2016
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 16.1 · 2/4
16.1
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
34
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
14
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
34 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 34 probesavg response 305 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
shadertoy.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
#51,859
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Shadertoy's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 16.1 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 14 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 3 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
CodePendev-toolscurated8.00.0— unverified
JSFiddledev-toolscurated49.3+32.0— unverified
Glitchentertainmentcurated8.00.0— unverified
Figma 2.0designtag-overlap64%40.00.0● live
CodePen Projectsdev-toolssimilar64%30.4+22.4● live
The New Framer Designdesigntag-overlap64%40.00.0● live
Lens Studiodev-toolssimilar63%40.00.0● live
All-in-one toolkit to web3.dev-toolssimilar60%8.0-8.0— 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 modelfreemium
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives3
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
2026-08-27 18:03Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare59cf_block
2026-08-26 09:35Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare250cf_block
2026-08-19 13:57Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare947cf_block
2026-08-11 00:32Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare295cf_block
2026-08-08 06:25Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare182cf_block
2026-08-05 18:45Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare926cf_block
2026-07-30 17:59Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare856cf_block
2026-07-23 09:19Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare122cf_block
2026-07-22 09:22Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare100cf_block
2026-07-21 09:23Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare64cf_block
2026-07-20 09:51Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare169cf_block
2026-07-19 09:02Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare130cf_block
2026-07-18 08:43Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare90cf_block
2026-07-17 09:04Z403shadertoy.comcloudflare83cf_block
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Shadertoy · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/shadertoy · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.