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The Weather Channel Bot

AI Tools — Forecasts, alerts, and more on Messenger, using IBM Watson [Messaging, Weather, Robots]
AI ToolsWeak defense · data moat (weak)est. 2016
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 0.0 · 1/4
0.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
6
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
19 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 19 probesavg response 722 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
play.google.com
edge
direct origin
server
ESF
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Weather Channel Bot's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 26, 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: 6 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
Yoggiai-toolssimilar86%40.0● live
OurSGBusBottraveltag-overlap83%40.00.0● live
CovidTweetai-toolssimilar83%40.0+7.2● live
Oscar Bot for Messengercommunicationtag-overlap83%16.00.0→ redirected
Ralphai-toolssimilar83%0.00.0■ inactive
Product Hunt Botcommunicationtag-overlap83%40.0+9.6● live
HAQQ Legal AI on Mobileai-toolssimilar83%40.20.0● live
Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot on Telegramai-toolssimilar83%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 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
2026-08-26 09:49Z404play.google.comESF217dead_404
2026-08-17 14:01Z404play.google.comESF155dead_404
2026-08-10 00:25Z404play.google.comESF402dead_404
2026-08-08 05:00Z404play.google.comESF1281dead_404
2026-07-31 15:58Z404play.google.comESF396dead_404
2026-07-26 17:51Z404play.google.comESF2328dead_404
2026-07-18 14:35Z404play.google.comESF533dead_404
2026-07-14 09:28Z404play.google.comESF243dead_404
2026-07-04 16:31Z404play.google.comESF935dead_404
2026-07-03 01:09Z404play.google.comESF900dead_404
2026-06-24 14:07Z404play.google.comESF973dead_404
2026-06-23 13:17Z404play.google.comESF298dead_404
2026-06-21 21:34Z404play.google.comESF740dead_404
2026-06-20 19:41Z404play.google.comESF703dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Weather Channel Bot · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-weather-channel-bot · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.