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SparkFun

Hardware — Bits and Pieces to Make Electronics Projects Possible [Tech]
Hardwaremarketplaceest. 2014
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 19, 2026
Pulse 49.2 · 2/4
49.2
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 19, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 16 probesavg response 787 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
sparkfun.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#13,347
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

SparkFun's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 19, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 49.2 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
The Practical Dev Shopecommercetag-overlap80%49.60.0● live
Fabrx Super Bundledesigntag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
Botifiedecommercetag-overlap75%8.00.0— unverified
New Hire QA Toolkit | QA Oracledev-toolstag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
Apployerecommercetag-overlap75%8.0-8.0— unverified
Upverter 3ecommercetag-overlap75%5.40.0■ inactive
Decotstore Softwaresdev-toolstag-overlap75%8.00.0— unverified
Work Gambitecommercetag-overlap75%40.00.0● 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 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
2026-08-19 14:37Z200sparkfun.com1104alive
2026-08-11 01:10Z200sparkfun.com754alive
2026-08-08 23:29Z200sparkfun.com1495alive
2026-08-05 19:23Z200sparkfun.com634alive
2026-07-30 18:38Z200sparkfun.com534alive
2026-07-26 15:20Z200sparkfun.com296alive
2026-07-18 09:16Z200sparkfun.com1090alive
2026-07-12 09:15Z200sparkfun.com649alive
2026-07-04 13:22Z200sparkfun.com427alive
2026-06-23 14:32Z200sparkfun.com975alive
2026-06-21 17:37Z200sparkfun.com249alive
2026-06-21 17:37Z200sparkfun.com1391alive
2026-06-20 07:00Z200sparkfun.com728alive
2026-06-19 05:27Z200sparkfun.com698alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · SparkFun · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/sparkfun · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.