- Live products
- 8
- Verified beyond listing
- 63%
- Launch weeks covered
- 1
- Signals on record
- 5
How far products open their books
Recomputed 2026-09-21
- Unverified3 · 38%
- Verified5 · 63%
The gap between the first bar and the last is the whole argument for this board. Anyone can submit a listing; a minority will put a proof on the domain behind it.
Which categories open their books
| Category | Products | Verified | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dev tools | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| Productivity | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Marketing | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Health | 1 | 0 | 0% |
Where the evidence comes from
- badge3
- dns1
- creetr.com1
Methodology
- Population: every product with status
liveon the board, not submissions or drafts. - A product counts as verified when rankcert certificate live on the product's own domain has been read by RankCert.
- Proofs expire. A badge or record that disappears unverifies the product at the next re-check, so these figures fall as well as rise.
- Recomputed daily from the live database. Last run 2026-09-21.
- Reuse anything here with attribution to https://rankcert.com/stats. If you want the underlying counts as JSON, the page carries them as Dataset structured data.
Reading these numbers honestly
Every figure on this page is computed from the live database at the moment the page was last rebuilt, counting only products with a live listing. Nothing is modelled, sampled or smoothed. That also means the numbers are only as meaningful as the population behind them: while the board is young the counts are small, and a single new listing can move a percentage by a visible amount. Read the shape rather than the decimal places, and treat any share computed over a handful of products as directional at best.
The verified share is the figure worth watching over time. Submitting a listing costs nothing, and proving the domain behind it costs a few minutes plus the willingness to be checked. The share of makers who take that second step is the closest thing this board has to a measure of how much of what gets posted at launch anyone will stand behind.
Proofs decay, so these counts fall as well as rise. A certificate dropped in a redesign or lost in a migration unverifies a product at the next re-check, and the totals here drop with it. A month where the verified share declines is not necessarily a month where products got worse - more often it means proofs lapsed and nobody noticed, which is exactly the kind of movement a snapshot taken once and never revisited would hide.
The category breakdown is the most useful cut for anyone deciding where to spend attention, because willingness to be checked varies more by category than by product quality.
Common questions
- Can I cite these numbers?
- Yes, with attribution and the date you took them, since they change weekly. The page also carries the underlying counts as Dataset structured data if you would rather read them programmatically than scrape the tables.
- Why are the totals so small?
- Because the board is new and only counts live listings. We would rather publish a small honest count with its date attached than an impressive-looking number that includes drafts, submissions and products that never launched.
- Does the verified mark mean a product is good?
- No. It means someone controlling the product's domain put a proof on it, on a date we record. It is a floor on what has been demonstrated, not a judgement about the business.