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Trick a Journalist

Marketing — Automated bots to get press coverage for your startup — Easily get press for your startup
MarketingWeak defense · data moat (weak)saasest. 2018
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
28
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
11
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 28 observations. 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
28 probes · May 25, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 28 probesavg response 1758 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
trickajournalist.com
edge
direct origin
server
Apache
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Trick a Journalist's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. 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: 11 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
Howler AI 3.0marketingsimilar73%0.00.0■ inactive
ProfitReply AI Review 2023marketingsimilar73%16.00.0→ redirected
Vytmnmarketingsimilar73%— unverified
Value on Boardmarketingsimilar73%40.00.0● live
SocialDaisymarketingsimilar73%8.00.0— unverified
Lyneai-toolstag-overlap73%41.50.0● live
Lead Cookermarketingsimilar73%0.00.0■ inactive
Shuttleanalyticstag-overlap69%40.0+7.2● 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 modelsaas
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
2026-08-24 13:21Z200trickajournalist.comApache1353alive
2026-08-13 13:52Z200trickajournalist.comApache1233alive
2026-08-09 19:01Z200trickajournalist.comApache1746alive
2026-08-08 04:04Z200trickajournalist.comApache1845alive
2026-07-30 20:17Z200trickajournalist.comApache1593alive
2026-07-26 16:58Z200trickajournalist.comApache1837alive
2026-07-18 13:43Z200trickajournalist.comApache1885alive
2026-07-13 13:31Z200trickajournalist.comApache2681alive
2026-07-04 15:36Z200trickajournalist.comApache2664alive
2026-07-03 00:15Z200trickajournalist.comApache1832alive
2026-06-24 10:28Z200trickajournalist.comApache1315alive
2026-06-22 12:57Z200trickajournalist.comApache1413alive
2026-06-21 00:34Z200trickajournalist.comApache1631alive
2026-06-20 00:24Z200trickajournalist.comApache1589alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Trick a Journalist · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/trick-a-journalist · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.