Skype
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
realSignal telemetry
4 families · 1 observed · observed onlyteams.live.comedge
direct originserver
not reportedTranco rank
unranked
Analyst read
generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrativeSkype's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://teams.live.com/free?source=skype) when we last probed it on Aug 27, 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: 14 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 5 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.
Comparable set
curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity| Company | Basis | Overlap | Pulse | 30d Δ | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troop Messengercommunication | similar | 73% | 44.6 | 0.0 | ● live |
| LinkUScommunication | similar | 71% | 40.0 | +32.0 | ● live |
| Zoomcommunication | similar | 71% | 35.9 | +9.9 | → redirected |
| MooSocialentertainment | tag-overlap | 69% | 44.7 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Fellow Desktop & Mobile Appsproductivity | tag-overlap | 67% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| WeChatcommunication | similar | 67% | 0.0 | 0.0 | ■ inactive |
| Messenger Group Video Chatscommunication | similar | 67% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| HipChat 2.0communication | similar | 64% | 22.7 | 0.0 | → redirected |
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 attributesFunding & team
not in sourceNo 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.