LEMANS LABS: Read your own public record before a stranger does

I build software products on my own, and for a long time I never checked what the internet actually said about any of them.

Then I did it by hand for one of them. Search results, the pages a stranger reaches first, what assistants answer when someone asks about the category, how many reviews sit there with no reply.

What stayed with me was not that the record was bad. It was that it was already there, already being read, and nobody had any reason to tell me.

So this is that check, run properly and written down. Your public record scored against a rubric published on the site rather than kept as secret sauce – six dimensions, every finding tied to the evidence behind it, and the arithmetic printed inside so a number can be checked instead of trusted.

It is for founders and for anyone who sells something, which most weeks is the same person.

What I would rather you knew before you look: the seven samples are complete and free, no sign-up and nothing behind an email field, but they are illustrative. The format is real, the measurements in them are synthetic, and one is about a person who does not exist, because a real one has not agreed to be scored in public.

Not many people have read this yet. If a dimension looks wrong, or one is missing, or the samples do not convince you, I would rather hear it here than find out later.

I build software products on my own, and for a long time I never checked what the internet actually said about any of them.

Then I did it by hand for one of them. Search results, the pages a stranger reaches first, what assistants answer when someone asks about the category, how many reviews sit there with no reply.

What stayed with me was not that the record was bad. It was that it was already there, already being read, and nobody had any reason to tell me.

It is for founders and for anyone who sells something, which most weeks is the same person.

Not many people have read this yet. If a dimension looks wrong, or one is missing, or the samples do not convince you, I would rather hear it here than find out later.