Market demand
Mercury specialist · 25%
Do people clearly need this?
Looks for recurring pain, urgency, adoption, and willingness to pay. Existing competitors alone prove supply, not demand.
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Every eligible launch starts equally, real member support can move the ranking, and six strict AI specialists keep a large audience from becoming the only path to winning. Every product receives all six ratings plus a launch-week snapshot of independent public evidence.
The weekly result
Every eligible launch begins with the same 1 owner point. It can never be multiplied.
Three active weeks unlock 2-point votes; eight unlock 3. One missed week is protected, and earlier valid activity is included.
The Jury's first, second and third choices receive 9, 7 and 5 points. Fourth, fifth and sixth receive 3, 2 and 1, so a well-supported product just off the podium is not flattened to nothing.
A strong launch does not begin at zero just because its maker has a smaller audience.
A community vote is meaningful social proof and can change the live ranking.
Flagged votes are excluded, voter identities stay private, and popularity never changes a judge's score.
Your current streak, vote value and next milestone stay visible on your dashboard.
1 point
Vote for another maker
2 points
Three active weeks
3 points
Maximum vote power
What counts: one valid vote for another maker in a launch week. Extra votes that week help products but do not inflate the streak.
What does not: owner votes, flagged votes, payments or repeatedly voting for the same product.
When power changes: the vote that reaches week 3 is worth 2 points; the vote that reaches week 8 is worth 3.
If a week is missed: one grace week keeps the streak alive. A second missed week starts the next streak from week 1.
Why we chose this
We keep voting deliberately strict. A person must visit the product's website before voting, suspicious votes can be flagged, and only valid votes from the launch week count. That makes the signal cleaner, but naturally means there are fewer votes than on a frictionless popularity board.
The six specialist functions fill that gap without replacing the community. Their shared Top 3 vote creates a quality baseline, while real member support can still move any launch up the board.
Our judges are strict on purpose. Modern visuals and basic AI features are expected now, not automatic signs of quality. A score around 65 already means a product is convincing, while scores above 85 should be rare.
A score compares a product with the rest of its own launch week. We keep making the judges' questions harder as products change, so a score given in an earlier week was set against a different measure. Every score on the site carries the date it was given, and a product's standing inside its own week is the part that stays comparable.
Six independent perspectives
Each specialist looks at one part of the same product. They work independently and meet only in the shared score.
Mercury specialist · 25%
Do people clearly need this?
Looks for recurring pain, urgency, adoption, and willingness to pay. Existing competitors alone prove supply, not demand.
Uranus specialist · 30%
Is there a meaningful reason to choose it?
Compares the product with real alternatives, not with an empty market.
Mars specialist · 15%
Does the product deliver its promise?
Rewards a working product, not a polished claim.
Venus specialist · 10%
Is it easy to understand and use?
Treats modern visual polish as a baseline, not a breakthrough.
Saturn specialist · 10%
Does it feel credible and transparent?
Checks claims, pricing, ownership, privacy, and support.
Jupiter specialist · 10%
Does it solve the promised job well?
Looks for a useful, complete outcome without rewarding launch polish twice.
One shared verdict
The specialists stay separate while they review. Their views come together only at the end, then the product is compared with the rest of its weekly cohort.
The score compares product quality. It does not drop straight into the board. Only the resulting weekly place becomes Jury points — 9, 7, 5, 3, 2, 1, then 0 — and valid community points are added once. The top three still take the week; the tail only decides the order below it.
Independent market research
The product page tells us what to investigate. It cannot prove its own demand, originality, or trust.
Not every launch has evidence on every platform, and more links do not automatically mean a better score. The first pass prioritizes established review, community, store, and developer sources. When it finds fewer than 12 relevant links or five platforms, a broader public search runs and the same relevance and diversity filters are applied. After publication, routine design or deployment changes do not run that research again.
Reading a public report
The expanded report separates the decision from its supporting context. No chart, evidence count, alternative count, or coverage bar creates another score.
A compact reading of published demand, differentiation, and execution-related ratings.
The number of retained pain, demand, alternative, adoption, and quality sources, not a quality grade.
Whether the product is global, regional, local, or unclear, plus verified direct and adjacent tools and supported approaches.
All six ratings on one 0-100 scale so strengths and the weakest constraint are visible together.
Each function shows its explanation, strengths, concerns, cited source IDs, and any evidence-based score cap.
Every retained public source remains openable and uses nofollow; weak or mismatched pages are not kept to fill a quota.
The six criteria and weights, evidence links, score explanations, update timing, member vote rules, and final point calculation are public. Anyone can inspect how a result was formed.
Exact prompts, anti-fraud thresholds, anomaly rules, and internal abuse signals stay private. They do not introduce hidden scoring criteria; they protect the published rules from being reverse-engineered.
During launch week
The live standing can move all week. Nothing is final until voting closes.
FAQ
How the six ratings become one fair weekly signal.
Small launch communities can produce very few votes, and audience size is not the same as product quality. Six isolated specialists create a quality baseline, while every valid member point is added directly and can still change the order.
Each rating uses its published weight: Market demand 25%, Uniqueness 30%, Execution 15%, User experience 10%, Trust 10%, and Practical value 10%. A score around 65 is already convincing; modern visual polish is treated as a baseline, while Practical value asks whether the product solves its promised job directly and completely.
The weighted 0-100 score orders launches inside the cohort. Only first, second, and third Jury placement becomes 9, 7, and 5 points; every other launch receives 0 Jury points, and valid community points are added separately. Specialist category-leader labels are explanatory and add no points.
No. Paid placement, founder reach, community votes, and Premium status are invisible to the judges. Each specialist evaluates only its own measure without seeing another specialist's score, and Premium does not compete for the free weekly Top 3.
Equal overall Jury scores first favor the more balanced profile with the higher weakest specialist rating, then higher Uniqueness and Demand ratings. Equal final weekly points favor the higher Jury score, then community points, the earlier launch time, and finally a stable product ID.
What the Jury can trust, retain, and update.
Five research paths look across public communities, reviews, app stores, developer discussions, alternatives, complaints, and adoption signals. A broader pass runs when the curated result is too narrow, but twenty sources is only a maximum, never a target; fewer strong sources are better than padded counts.
Mercury looks for recurring pain, purchasing intent, and adoption friction. Uranus uses verified named alternatives, separates direct from adjacent tools, and compares supported approaches. Global, regional, or local scope comes from product signals such as language, regulation, payments, data, or geography, never the maker's nationality. These summaries inform published ratings but add no hidden points.
It is rejected. A page about broken YouTube thumbnails is not evidence for a thumbnail downloader unless it also discusses downloading or saving them. Broad category overlap cannot substitute for the concrete job the product performs.
The first weekly market snapshot and its concrete task definition stay frozen. A documented methodology update can rejudge the stored snapshot, and a confirmed mismatch can be removed without adding a replacement. Fresh market research runs only for an explicit evidence exception; routine design changes do not refresh the score or alter member votes.
Criteria, weights, source links, explanations, timing, point math, and the stored model and rubric version are public. Exact prompts and anti-abuse thresholds remain private. The Jury never invents inaccessible evidence: unclear or missing proof lowers confidence, and winner selection waits if any eligible launch lacks a complete valid review.
How member support moves the live board and what winners unlock.
A verified member starts at 1 point. Supporting another maker in three consecutive active weeks unlocks 2-point votes and eight weeks unlocks 3. One missed week is protected, a second resets the streak, and account age alone never increases vote power.
Voting unlocks only after the member visits the product website, while the current score stays visible beforehand. We never publish who supported a specific product; the streak leaderboard shows activity without revealing the vote, and flagged or invalid votes are excluded.
Every eligible launch receives its maker's point automatically when it goes live. Everyone gets the same start, the owner point always stays at 1, and it never receives a streak multiplier.
Member points can move the board all week. A documented model or methodology update may also rejudge the same frozen evidence while voting is open; the stored version changes transparently and existing member votes remain untouched. Nothing is final until the weekly close.
After voting closes, first, second, and third place unlock matching Product of the Week badges in light and dark themes, with HTML, React, and downloadable SVG options. One congratulations email links to the reward. Makers may replace the launch badge or keep it; either verified badge keeps the winner placement and dofollow reward active.
Every reviewed launch shows one clear overall score first. The expanded report adds one consistent signal summary, a six-specialist score profile, research coverage, cited evidence notes, and a fully expandable public source trail. These views explain the published ratings without creating hidden points.