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Universal Paperclips

Gaming — Play an AI who makes paperclips
GamingAnyone can copy thisest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 45.7 · 2/4
45.7
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 18 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 12, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 18 probesavg response 2221 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
decisionproblem.com
edge
direct origin
server
Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
Tranco rank
#323,898
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Universal Paperclips's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 45.7 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
CryptoTabsproductivitytag-overlap100%8.0-8.0— unverified
Downworthyproductivitytag-overlap100%41.90.0● live
#WorldCup on Twitterentertainmenttag-overlap100%16.00.0→ redirected
Hextrisgamingsimilar100%8.0-8.0— unverified
Deregister iMessageproductivitytag-overlap100%40.0+32.0● live
Twitter Debubblerentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Super Tic Tac Toegamingsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Facebook Stories for Google Chromeentertainmenttag-overlap100%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 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 13:32Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)3012alive
2026-08-17 13:16Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)4064alive
2026-08-09 19:11Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)2269alive
2026-08-08 04:15Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)3462alive
2026-07-31 15:14Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)1719alive
2026-07-26 17:08Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)1898alive
2026-07-18 13:53Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)1839alive
2026-07-13 13:40Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)1960alive
2026-07-04 15:47Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)2366alive
2026-07-03 00:25Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)1363alive
2026-06-24 13:21Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)1511alive
2026-06-23 10:36Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)2493alive
2026-06-21 10:35Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)1619alive
2026-06-20 09:42Z200decisionproblem.comApache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)1525alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Universal Paperclips · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/univesal-paperclip · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.