Soft Blackout
Quiet signalMask text on any page, or turn articles into blackout poetry
Launched 21d ago
Signal
17
Velocity
0
What this means
40%Vote pace is below typical for this category.
Running at 40% of comparable launches.
+54%Launching in a 54% WoW growing category.
Chrome Extensions had 63 launches this week vs 41 last.
13Founder Conviction Index: 13 — low signal.
Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.
3 launchesSerial maker — this is their 3rd launch.
Best prior: UX HeatGrid, attention 3.
Prediction
Top-5 finish probability
3%
today
Projected end-of-day votes
2range 2–3
Trajectory
stable
Vote pace holding steady.
Speed vs peers
0.4×
238 comparable launches
About
Soft Blackout masks text on any web page three ways, right from Chrome's toolbar. Manual masks any text you select in one click. Poetry turns an article into a blackout poem: you pick the words to keep and it hides the rest. Pattern Mask finds emails, URLs and phone numbers and masks them only when you choose Apply. Choose Solid or Marker style in five colours, with Undo and Redo across every mode. Masks are only visual and disappear on reload.
Attention & discussion velocity
Performance
Velocity0
Vote pace vs average
Momentum0
Sustained over 6h
Virality0
Spread × engagement
Engagement—
not measured
Signal sources
1 of 6 active- Launch tracking4 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 scoringbelow the signal threshold for this pass
A source that found nothing is a measurement. A source that has not run is a gap. Neither means the launch lacks the thing.