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The Podcast Wire

Entertainment — 500 word summaries of the best startup podcasts each week [Web App, Tech]
EntertainmentWeak defense · data moat (weak)est. 2015
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 0.0 · 1/4
0.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 944 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
thepodcastwire.com
edge
direct origin
server
Squarespace
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Podcast Wire's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it inactive. 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: 3 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

No comparable set could be resolved for this product.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tiersunset
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
2026-08-27 18:39Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace1118dead_404
2026-08-19 13:54Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace1141dead_404
2026-08-11 00:29Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace808dead_404
2026-08-08 06:22Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace533dead_404
2026-08-05 18:42Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace1382dead_404
2026-07-30 17:56Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace1106dead_404
2026-07-22 09:47Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace1000dead_404
2026-07-17 09:30Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace2149dead_404
2026-07-10 10:52Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace410dead_404
2026-07-04 12:49Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace133dead_404
2026-06-23 13:58Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace910dead_404
2026-06-21 17:02Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace233dead_404
2026-06-21 17:01Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace1439dead_404
2026-06-20 00:43Z404thepodcastwire.comSquarespace853dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Podcast Wire · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-podcast-wire · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.