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Shapeways

Ecommerce — 3D Printing Service & Marketplace [Tech]
Ecommercemarketplaceest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Jul 13, 2026
Pulse 48.0 · 2/4
48.0
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
0
Press mentions
tracked coverage · not in source
10
Functional tags
observed attributes · real

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Jul 13, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Pulse Index

real
48.0/ 100 · 2/4 signal families
Liveness·40
+40.0
Press·30no data
GitHub velocity·20no data
Web traffic (Tranco)·10
+8.1

Each family contributes its observed strength × weight to the 0–100 Pulse. Missing families contribute nothing and are never renormalized, so an unobserved product reads lower — Pulse measures observed activity, not potential.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelmarketplace
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives1
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Shapeways's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Jul 13, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 48.0 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 10 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisPulseFamilies
NamesForChangeecommercesimilar8.01/4
Nebula | Crowd-sourced computing powerdesigntag-overlap40.01/4
Photoshop color correction servicedesigntag-overlap30.41/4
Crowd Monerofinancetag-overlap8.01/4
NFT Marketplace Servicesecommercesimilar0.01/4
Merch by Amazonecommercesimilar40.01/4
Die-Cut Printdesigntag-overlap40.01/4
The New Gumroadecommercesimilar40.01/4

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. Pulse is the observed-activity index real; a dash means the comparable has no observed signal families.

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.