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Snippets by The Guardian

Entertainment — Extra information you need to understand complex stories — Snippets are small reusable pieces of…
Entertainmentsaasest. 2017
● Stable
Category standing real
66th pctl · Entertainment
22.9
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#2,530
Category rank
of 11,555 · real
53th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
1%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 9.613.2 across 26 readings (+3.6). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
53
Signal (category) real
66
Profile maturity real
53
Tag breadth real
48
Network position sparse
97
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate
1%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 3% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

  • LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

Snippets by The Guardian sits in the 53th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #2,530 of 11,555 in Entertainment. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 1% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is roughly flat.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Google Newsentertainmentcurated18.62%
Mediumhardwarecurated30.016%
mempoolcommunicationtag-overlap25.790%
BlockchainI.COfinancetag-overlap22.994%
Not So Distantcommunicationtag-overlap32.93%
RapStatsanalyticstag-overlap22.990%
CoinLore - Crypto Market Capfinancetag-overlap30.08%
US cop shootings mapanalyticstag-overlap15.719%

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. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
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.