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Shorte.st

Marketing — Earn money on short links [Tech]
Marketingfreemiumest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 4.6 · 2/4
4.6
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
-8.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
33
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. 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
33 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 33 probesavg response 7013 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
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#555,776
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Shorte.st'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 4.6 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 5 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
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
My Morning Routineproductivitytag-overlap83%42.60.0● live
ReverbNationentertainmenttag-overlap83%9.6-40.0■ inactive
FOR TRUSTED FARNINGS LINKSproductivitytag-overlap83%40.00.0● live
Addmeentertainmenttag-overlap83%— unverified
Develop Your Pathproductivitytag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
Podcast Growth Hackingeducationtag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
The Digital PawPrintcommunicationtag-overlap80%40.0+2.4● live
HandUp Gift Cardsothertag-overlap80%42.4+2.4● 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 modelfreemium
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives1
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 18:04Z10001timeout
2026-08-26 09:35Z9999timeout
2026-08-19 13:58Z200shorte.stCaddy1469parked
2026-08-11 00:33Z200shorte.stCaddy901parked
2026-08-08 06:26Z200shorte.stCaddy3088parked
2026-08-05 18:45Z200shorte.stCaddy1899parked
2026-07-30 18:00Z200shorte.stCaddy822parked
2026-07-23 09:20Z10000timeout
2026-07-22 09:23Z10000timeout
2026-07-21 09:24Z9999timeout
2026-07-20 09:51Z10000timeout
2026-07-19 09:03Z10000timeout
2026-07-18 08:44Z10000timeout
2026-07-17 09:05Z10001timeout
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Shorte.st · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/shorte-st · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.