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Shooq

Ecommerce — Shop and sell textbooks via Messenger 📖 — Shooq is a conversational commerce startup which prov…
EcommerceWeak defense · network effects (weak)marketplaceest. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
20
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
7
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. 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
20 probes · Jun 13, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 20 probesavg response 2208 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
shooq.com
edge
direct origin
server
Netlify
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Shooq's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://shooq.com/) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. 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: 7 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
SmartBustraveltag-overlap86%8.00.0— unverified
Evrlearneducationtag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
Andy Roboteducationtag-overlap71%40.00.0● live
inzoeproductivitytag-overlap71%8.00.0— unverified
Hekobeducationtag-overlap71%8.00.0— unverified
assistUecommercesimilar71%40.00.0● live
Gebniecommercesimilar71%40.00.0● live
Foreign Friendeducationtag-overlap71%0.00.0■ inactive

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 modelmarketplace
Liveness tierunknown
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 13:47Z200shooq.co → shooq.comNetlify1692redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:29Z200shooq.co → shooq.comNetlify1704redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:25Z200shooq.co → shooq.comNetlify1653redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:29Z200shooq.co → shooq.comNetlify2125redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:27Z200shooq.co → shooq.comNetlify2005redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:22Z200shooq.co → shooq.comSquarespace1513redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:06Z200shooq.co → shooq.comSquarespace1683redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 13:53Z2212unknown
2026-07-04 16:00Z200shooq.co → shooq.comSquarespace939redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:39Z200shooq.co → shooq.comSquarespace1484redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:35Z200shooq.co → shooq.comSquarespace2358redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 10:58Z10008timeout
2026-06-21 16:59Z200shooq.co → shooq.comSquarespace465redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 16:59Z200shooq.co → shooq.comSquarespace1064redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Shooq · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/shooq · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.