How we verify

Trust is the whole point of this site. The internet is full of "AI made me $30K a month" posts that turn out to be ads for a course. We want you to be able to check every claim yourself in under a minute.

Our rules

  1. Every story links its source. It's at the top of the page and again at the bottom. If you can't click through to where the number came from, the story doesn't run.
  2. We quote numbers exactly. If the source says "nearly $8,000 in under three weeks," we write that, not "$8K in 3 weeks." We don't round up, annualize, or turn revenue into profit.
  3. We say who checked. Every story carries one of two labels (below).
  4. We re-check before publishing. Each story shows the date we last re-opened the source and confirmed the facts.
  5. We say what's missing. If the source doesn't say something (which AI tools, profit vs. revenue, how long it took), we tell you instead of guessing.
  6. We keep the caveats. If the person says it's hard, crowded, or not easy money, that goes in the story too.
  7. No paid placements. Nobody can pay to be featured. Some tool links are affiliate links. Each one is labeled "affiliate," and a tool never gets mentioned, and a story never gets covered or labeled differently, because a company pays us. See our affiliate disclosure.

The two labels

Verified by outlet

The outlet says a reporter looked at documents, such as pay slips, AdSense payout records, or dashboard screenshots. Example: Business Insider wrote that it "verified copies of her pay slips." That's the strongest evidence we can point you to. It still isn't an audit.

Self-reported

The numbers come from the person: an interview, an as-told-to essay, a podcast or video, or their own social post. Respected outlets publish self-reported numbers all the time, and many of them are accurate. But if the piece doesn't say anyone checked documents, we label it self-reported, even when the outlet is well known.

Sometimes we add a note. For example, when a hackathon organizer publishes an app's results, we link that too. We still keep the label that fits the main claim.

What we skip

Spotted a mistake?

Sources change, links break, and people update their numbers. If something looks wrong, tell us through the submit page and we'll fix it and note the correction on the story.