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Skype Lite

Communication — Lightweight Skype for emerging markets [Android, Tech]
Communicationsaasest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+9.6
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
8
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 18 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+9.6). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 67% of 18 probesavg response 5469 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
apps.microsoft.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Skype Lite's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. 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: 8 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
Stitcherentertainmenttag-overlap88%0.00.0■ inactive
Deepstasheducationtag-overlap78%47.80.0● live
Calmhealthtag-overlap75%49.40.0● live
Panda: Dating - Adventure Profilesentertainmenttag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
Pocket: Recommendationsentertainmenttag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
Stop Breathe & Thinkhealthtag-overlap75%39.4-2.4● live
Inflowhealthtag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
cure.fithealthtag-overlap75%22.00.0→ 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 attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
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 14:04Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com2459alive
2026-08-17 13:46Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com4000alive
2026-08-10 00:11Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com2979alive
2026-08-08 04:45Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com1900alive
2026-07-31 15:44Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com3427alive
2026-07-26 17:37Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com1969alive
2026-07-18 14:21Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com2514alive
2026-07-14 09:12Z10001timeout
2026-07-04 16:16Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com8234alive
2026-07-03 00:55Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com7395alive
2026-06-24 13:52Z10002timeout
2026-06-23 13:02Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com7026alive
2026-06-21 21:21Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com6741alive
2026-06-20 19:27Z200microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com7913alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Skype Lite · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/skype-lite · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.