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Tug

Hardware — Breakaway connection for any power cord and outlet — Tug is device to convert any power cord and…
HardwareWeak defense · distribution moat (weak)hardwareest. 2018
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 0.3 · 2/4
0.3
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
-40.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
22
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 momentum is negative over 30 days (-40.0) — observed activity is receding. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
22 probes · Jun 11, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 95% of 22 probesavg response 2276 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
ilovehandles.com
edge
direct origin
server
nginx/1.15.8
Tranco rank
#3,698,971
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Tug's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it inactive. Its Pulse Index is 0.3 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. 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
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Snowfeethealthtag-overlap100%43.5+32.0● live
Textbladehardwaresimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Alienware Steam Machinegamingtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Neumitrahardwaresimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Jetson ONEhardwaresimilar100%18.10.0→ redirected
Airinumhardwaresimilar100%30.4+22.4— unverified
Huawei Matebookhardwaresimilar100%0.30.0■ inactive
Fonhandlehardwaresimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected

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 modelhardware
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
2026-08-24 13:16Z503ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.8863dead_5xx
2026-08-13 13:47Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82632alive
2026-08-09 18:56Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82712alive
2026-08-08 03:58Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82291alive
2026-07-30 20:12Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.81843alive
2026-07-26 16:53Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.81957alive
2026-07-18 13:38Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82223alive
2026-07-13 13:26Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82629alive
2026-07-04 15:32Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82360alive
2026-07-03 00:10Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.83244alive
2026-06-28 12:49Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82343alive
2026-06-24 10:20Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82767alive
2026-06-22 12:48Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.81779alive
2026-06-20 21:56Z200ilovehandles.comnginx/1.15.82217alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Tug · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/tug · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.