Pause
Notable signalPause. Before you scroll.
Launched 8h ago
Signal
48
Velocity
0
What this means
20%Vote pace is below typical for this category.
Running at 20% of comparable launches.
+83%Launching in a 83% WoW growing category.
Puzzle Games had 11 launches this week vs 6 last.
15Founder Conviction Index: 15 — low signal.
Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.
Prediction
Top-5 finish probability
3%
today
Projected end-of-day votes
13range 10–18
Trajectory
stable
Not enough snapshots yet to detect trajectory.
Speed vs peers
0.2×
8 comparable launches
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Attention & discussion velocity
Performance
Velocity0
Vote pace vs average
Momentum0
Sustained over 6h
Virality0
Spread × engagement
Engagement100
Discussion per unit of attention
Editorial read
Scored deterministically. Only candidates that fire a story trigger are sent to a model, so this one has no written angle.
ThinLittle evidence and no strong angle. Nothing to build on yet.
155/8
Timeliness5%100
carried 7%
Novelty15%56
carried 20%
Trend20%47
carried 27%
Business15%24
carried 20%
Story20%0
carried 27%
Not measured · 3 of 8
Revenue10%—
Founder10%—
Cross-platform5%—
Gaps in our data, not findings about the product. Their weight is redistributed across the 5 we did measure.
measuredmeasured, zeronot measured
Full audit →Signal sources
2 of 6 active- Launch tracking2 readings since we picked it up
- AI analysisnot yet enriched
- Comment intelligencethread not yet analysed
- Outside discussionnot checked — domain is a storefront or shared
- Revenue signalsno match on this domain
- Editorial scoring10% evidence coverage
A source that found nothing is a measurement. A source that has not run is a gap. Neither means the launch lacks the thing.
