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Wink - Learn to code with a bug! Robots for everyone!

Education — Cute Arduino pet bot that can help you learn how to code [Tech]
Educationhardware-salesest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. 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
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 6% of 16 probesavg response 1477 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
kickstarter.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Wink - Learn to code with a bug! Robots for everyone!'s site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. 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: 4 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
HIDIOTeducationsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
CrowPi2educationsimilar75%40.0+32.0● live
Rooteducationsimilar75%40.00.0● live
Exofabulatronixx 5200educationsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
Egger: Interactive Learning Projector For Kidseducationsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
Codestarterhardwaretag-overlap75%0.00.0■ inactive
iRobot Create 2educationsimilar67%48.8+9.6● live
Commodore 64hardwaretag-overlap67%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 modelhardware-sales
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
2026-08-27 18:31Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare1960cf_block
2026-08-19 13:47Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare874cf_block
2026-08-11 00:23Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare504cf_block
2026-08-08 06:15Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare246cf_block
2026-08-05 18:36Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare1336cf_block
2026-07-30 17:49Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare1011cf_block
2026-07-22 09:40Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare375cf_block
2026-07-17 09:22Z10015timeout
2026-07-10 10:45Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare1264cf_block
2026-07-04 09:36Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare240cf_block
2026-06-23 13:52Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare572cf_block
2026-06-21 10:44Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare1249cf_block
2026-06-20 00:36Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare196cf_block
2026-06-18 22:52Z200kickstarter.comcloudflare842alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Wink - Learn to code with a bug! Robots for everyone! · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/wink-learn-to-code-with-a-bug-robots-for-everyone · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.