The story is what happens
after launch.
A product’s most interesting moments come after the announcement: when the price changes, when the thing it promised starts working, when it’s still maintained two years later. All of those are measurable, and none of them is a launch.
What we are replacing
- ✕A podium ranked by upvotes
- ✕Founder headshots and hype adjectives
- ✕“Please upvote” in your DMs at 6am
- ✕A listing that dies in 24 hours
- ✕Copy written by whoever wanted it most
- ✓A flow of real events, in order
- ✓The product screenshot is the face
- ✓No votes to game
- ✓Listings re-crawl themselves, weekly, free
- ✓Copy written from the product's own pages
Discovery is measurement
Every claim on this site carries the evidence it rests on, and a date. A verdict is true as of when it was taken — after thirty days it has to be established again rather than inherited. Where we cannot measure something, the page shows an em dash instead of a number. Printing a number nobody measured would be the most expensive mistake this catalog could make.
Nothing here is ranked by votes
There are no upvotes, karma, or podiums. Vouches are signed statements that somebody uses a thing, and they never affect where anything appears. Marks record that something happened and cannot be bought. Nothing on this site is paid placement.
That is a constraint on us more than on anyone else. It means we cannot sell the one thing a discovery site is usually asked to sell.
Honest gaps
When someone asks a question the catalog cannot answer, we say so and charge nothing. The question is recorded. When five different people ask the same unanswerable thing, it becomes a public gap that anyone can build into. Unmet demand is the useful part of an empty search result. Everywhere else, it gets thrown away.
What this costs us
Refusing to rank means we can’t sell placement. Showing an em dash where we lack data looks emptier than guessing would. An agent that says “unverifiable” satisfies less than one that just says yes or no. Each is a worse business decision now, and we think it’s the right one anyway.