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Mercury

Ecommerce — Mercury enables freelancers to exchange services directly through bartering, eliminating currenc…
Ecommercemarketplace
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
-0.4
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
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.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 560 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentreal
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury
Hacker News · May 3 · importance 3/5 · 1 tracked mention
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Mercury's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 24, 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: 1 tracked press mention, 5 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
zetup.meecommercesimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Comissionfinancetag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Inksharesecommercesimilar100%40.00.0● live
CentUpmarketingtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Artraecommercesimilar100%40.0+7.2● live
Social Friendzyecommercesimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Gumroadecommercesimilar100%40.00.0● live
Grid50ecommercesimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected

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 modelmarketplace
Liveness tieractive
Competitive alternatives2
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 14:52Z408unknown
2026-08-18 12:35Z709unknown
2026-08-10 00:46Z1127unknown
2026-08-08 05:21Z145unknown
2026-08-02 14:13Z285unknown
2026-07-30 16:58Z120unknown
2026-07-18 14:54Z245unknown
2026-07-15 09:28Z1895unknown
2026-07-04 16:51Z597unknown
2026-07-03 03:28Z57unknown
2026-06-23 15:32Z799unknown
2026-06-21 18:33Z26unknown
2026-06-21 18:33Z1151unknown
2026-06-20 08:02Z282unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Mercury · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/mercury-51c69418-b538-4f00-b961-fd33f533e326 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.