Name

Texts From Last Night

Legal name

Texts From Last Night

Website

https://textsfromlastnight.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Texts From Last Night is a free public web archive founded in 2009 by Lauren Leto that displays user-submitted humorous and embarrassing text messages for adults seeking entertainment and shareable comedy content.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Humor & Entertainment Content

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

akta.pro primary industry

Content Curation & Bookmarking/Read-Later Platforms (MPACAKAH)

Keywords

• Humor blog
• User generated content
• Text message archive
• Entertainment website
• Comedy content

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Advertising: Revenue model not explicitly disclosed in source material. Site is a public archive with no user accounts or paid features visible.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Texts From Last Night is a public archive website that collects and displays humorous, embarrassing, or memorable text messages that people have sent, often while drinking or in other social situations. Users can browse the archive organized by area code and date without creating an account, signing in, or paying. The site is operated as a single, unified content property rather than a suite of products or services.

Product overview

Texts From Last Night operates as a single, unified public archive website. It has no user accounts, no sign-in requirement, and no additional modules or sub-products. The entire offering consists of one website that allows visitors to browse and read a curated collection of humorous text messages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Texts From Last Night Website A public archive website that displays humorous, unusual, or memorable text messages submitted by users. Visitors can browse texts organized by area code and date without creating an account or logging in. Targeted at general adult consumers seeking entertainment and shareable comedic content.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Google AnalyticscoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Analytics 4 provides anonymous usage analytics for the site, collecting page views, session duration, location data, browser information, and referrer URLs through cookies (_ga and _ga_KV2WYTSLS5). This is a standard third-party analytics integration for understanding site traffic patterns.
• DigitalOceancoreTechnology or IntegrationDigitalOcean provides cloud hosting infrastructure for the Texts From Last Night website. They may maintain server access logs including IP addresses, request paths, and timestamps for operational purposes.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• The Chive: Established humor/entertainment destination with user-submitted content and broader portfolio (merchandise, philanthropy); comparable horizontal audience and similar archive-driven content model.
• CollegeHumor: Larger entertainment/humor digital media property; comparable audience (young adult comedy consumers) and overlapping content category though primarily video-first rather than archive-first.
• 9GAG: Large-scale user-submitted humor content community; comparable horizontal entertainment audience and similar user-generated archive mechanic, though vastly larger scale and broader content mix.

Direct peers

• FMyLife (fmylife.com): User-submitted embarrassing life stories archive organized by browsing; very similar content mechanic (short, anonymous, relatable failure/humor entries) and horizontal entertainment audience.
• PostSecret: Long-running user-submitted confessional archive; directly comparable in format (anonymous public submission → curation → display) and audience (entertainment-seeking web users browsing intimate/embarrassing content).
• Awkward Family Photos: User-submitted archive of embarrassing personal media; comparable user-generated archive format, similar entertainment-driven horizontal audience, and analogous monetization (book deals, merchandise).
• Passive Aggressive Notes: Curated archive of user-submitted passive-aggressive communications; parallel content model (real-world communication artifacts curated for humor) with overlapping horizontal entertainment audience.

Emerging players

• Overheard: Curated humorous overheard/overheard-content platform targeting similar entertainment audiences; comparable content mechanic (real-world funny moments curated into browsable posts) though newer and brand-distinct.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TFLN
• Facebookfacebook.com/textsfromlastnight
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tfln

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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