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Education — Cheap College Textbooks [Productivity, Education, Books]
Educationmarketplaceest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 41.1 · 2/4
41.1
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

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

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 3101 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
slugbooks.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
#2,018,429
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

SlugBooks's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 41.1 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 4 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
GPA Gainseducationsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Edis Murticfinancetag-overlap100%40.0+2.4● live
Clickscholarshipeducationsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Trade Schooleducationsimilar80%40.00.0● live
YES Internship Programeducationsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
Coursenesteducationsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
JobPulseecommercetag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
bms college of engineering feeseducationsimilar75%16.00.0→ 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 modelmarketplace
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 14:37Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare1356alive
2026-08-17 14:07Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare1491alive
2026-08-10 00:31Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare1783alive
2026-08-08 05:05Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare1708alive
2026-07-31 16:03Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare1742alive
2026-07-26 17:56Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare6748alive
2026-07-18 14:40Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare6855alive
2026-07-04 16:36Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare1425alive
2026-07-03 01:13Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare2888alive
2026-06-23 13:21Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare1716alive
2026-06-21 21:39Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare5841alive
2026-06-20 19:45Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare4878alive
2026-06-19 13:26Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare2283alive
2026-06-18 12:40Z200slugbooks.comcloudflare2693alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · SlugBooks · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/slugbooks · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.