Not Entirely Convinced

I'm not entirely convinced.

A software company built around one habit: checking the number everyone else quotes. We ship small, self-funded products — three of them live — and the thing they have in common is that they show you the figure the category would rather round off.

Currently unconvinced that
that was going to work anyway.

What we build

Three products, all live

Each one exists because the standard version of it reports a flattering number. We own and run all three end to end — no investors, no acquisition track.

Testimonial collection and embeddable walls. Text testimonials are never capped — on any plan, including the free one — and the embed ships finished markup instead of phoning home, so it can't slow the page it sits on.

testimonials.free

keep.fans

Live

Financial back-office for independent creators. Platform payouts are quoted gross; this works out what actually lands after the platform's cut, expenses, and tax — across every platform at once. Keep your fans. Keep your money.

keep.fans

A comparable database of income methods, ranked by effective hourly rate net of expenses and unpaid time — with a failure rate on every record. Everyone else counts the people who made money. We also count everyone who tried.

whatpays.org

How we decide things

Four rules we don't trade away

These are enforced in code, not in a style guide. Each one has cost us a feature someone asked for.

Report the denominator. A success rate needs everyone who attempted it, not just everyone who finished. Publishing the numerator alone is the oldest way to be technically accurate and completely misleading.
Median, never mean. An average is where an outlier goes to hide. In the income data we work with, the mean is over four times the median — quoting it would flatter every number on the site.
Nothing buys its way up a ranking. Order is computed from the data. Not "we disclose paid placement" — there is deliberately no field a payment could write to, so the promise doesn't depend on anyone keeping it.
The free tier isn't bait. We meter what actually costs us money, like video storage. We don't cap the thing the product is for and call it a plan.

Contact

Think one of these is wrong?

Good — that's the useful kind of mail. Counterexamples, better sources, and corrections to anything above all go to the same address. So do partnership and press enquiries.

Arguments, counterexamples, and citations welcome at hello@imnotentirelyconvinced.com. Assertions delivered with confidence alone will be read and enjoyed, but not counted.