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Stack Overflow Documentation

Developer Tools — A crowdsourced developer documentation [Developer Tools, Tech]
Developer Toolsfreemiumest. 2016
▲ Rising
Category standing real
36th pctl · Developer Tools
18.6
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#4,190
Category rank
of 7,723 · real
46th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
8%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 7.514.4 across 31 readings (+6.9). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
46
Signal (category) real
36
Profile maturity real
46
Tag breadth real
86
Network position sparse
0
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
8%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 16% 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

Stack Overflow Documentation sits in the 46th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #4,190 of 7,723 in Developer Tools. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 8% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +29.7).

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
bestcodingpractices.devdev-toolssimilar30.07%
Prampeducationtag-overlap18.60%
Larabiz Rebirthcommunicationtag-overlap32.953%
HelloJSdev-toolssimilar15.781%
Externals.iocommunicationtag-overlap22.915%
Interviews on Skypedev-toolssimilar22.976%
dAppnews.iodev-toolssimilar22.972%
WWDC Together 2.0communicationtag-overlap25.74%

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 modelfreemium
Liveness tierfading
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

3 disclosed funding rounds on record, 2 founders resolved. See the full cap table on the product profile →