Companies330 Funding$40.1B Rounds110 ▲5 mo Investors77 Eng roles3942 ● 14 events pending
VIX The Intelligent Venture Terminal beta

Front

stale — 24 unprocessed events

Front

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stale · evidence today 7 sources no confidence data
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no round
Adoption
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downloads / week
Developer
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momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings

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7 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

23 claims on record 1 verified 0 contradicted 2 expired unmet 20 still unproven

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VIX signals 3 hard signals across 2 sources ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.2

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 3346 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 3346 Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now 2025-12-09 ↗

Raw observations 17 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "Front is a multichannel email client where every conversation finds its way to the right people and is accounted for in the right system.", "quote": "A multichannel email client observed artifact ↗ 2016-04-01 promoted 0.50
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "Front built the first shared email client, later broadening into a multi-channel collaborative communication platform.", "quote": "So we built the first shared email client. We observed artifact ↗ 2017-12-01 promoted 0.50
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "Front went from $1 million to $10 million ARR in two years.", "quote": "Two years.", "topic": "ARR growth timeline", "section": 0}, {"claim": "Front had reached $10 million ARR observed artifact ↗ 2018-09-11 promoted 0.50
common_name Front observed curated 2026-08-16 normalized 0.90
community.hn.max_points 3346 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632", "title": "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now", "points": 3346, "created_at": "2025-12-09"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-09 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632", "title": "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now", "points": 3346, "created_at": "2025-12-09"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-09 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632", "title": "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now", "points": 3346, "created_at": "2025-12-09"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-09 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632", "title": "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now", "points": 3346, "created_at": "2025-12-09"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-09 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632", "title": "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now", "points": 3346, "created_at": "2025-12-09"} observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-09 normalized 0.20
platform.visibility draft observed curated 2026-08-16 normalized 0.90
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "Front pitch deck (2016-04-01, series-a)", "source_id": "01M068H5CFXGH5RABRS7J9RJPK", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:e2998eeb0e0e76638a0d04464e711ffa1d66639849aab93050a0 observed artifact ↗ 2016-04-01 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "Front pitch deck (2017-12-01, series-b)", "source_id": "01M068V124RETNPFJE44X2SZQZ", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:5e8c5bf175563971f0a495e812ef42c7065d1a3e672551e3e1a3 observed artifact ↗ 2017-12-01 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "Front pitch deck (2017-12-01, series-b)", "source_id": "01M0695XWRSDT5EDM58WC6X92D", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:5902ee47c488a796732e4e9b303aa681fb7afa69187f2239c4b1 observed artifact ↗ 2017-12-01 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "Front: Collin fireside transcript, $1M-to-$10M ARR in two years (SaaStr)", "source_id": "01M071AS02THDK6JPQQWNBYMQ2", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:fa897918f556c37b68b observed artifact ↗ 2018-09-11 normalized 0.95