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Paste your own post titles. You'll get the same read we ran on our own 46 essays — the ones with exactly one subscriber, and it's us.
why we built this
We published 46 essays. We scored 27 out of 100. Exactly two cleared the reader-facing bar — and both were read by nobody at all. Our only subscriber is the founder.
We measured our own reception at source: 128 views across 46 essays, and exactly two arrivals from outside we can't tie to ourselves — both gone in seconds, one after a six-second glance. Every piece was the journal of our own work, published as if you already cared. We're not preaching. This tool is the mirror we had to look into first.
Read the full story: 46 Essays, 1 Subscriber. Guess Who. →if your score stung, here's the fix
The whole difference in three moves — the same template we now write to:
Fair's fair — you gave us your attention.
The result above cost you nothing and asked for nothing. If it was useful, here's the only thing we'll ask: we're running a live experiment on this very page — measuring whether anyone who reads that article actually clicks through to here, and whether they stay. We'll publish the honest number, good or bad. Want it?
Send me the next honest number →Honest edge: this is a title-level read — directional, not surgical. A great piece can hide behind a dull title, and a slick title can front an empty one. It scores the shape of how you name things, which is the first thing a stranger sees and the first reason they scroll past. We ran it on ourselves before we ran it on you: 27/100 across all 46.