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The membership plan
One membership · no data tier
$49/mo
or $490/yr, two months free
Planned price. Nothing is charged until membership opens.
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What's inside
The pain is free. The verdict is what you unseal, and everything below it is what makes the verdict possible.
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The verdicts
Go / don't-go and the build order on investigated opportunities. Every claim is clickable back to its source.
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The screening desk
The full catalog, filterable by momentum, maintenance health, niche, and size, across all 67,000+ WordPress plugins. The free pages show you any one plugin; the desk lets you ask questions across all of them.
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The watch desk
Watchlists and alerts, starting with rating-crash alerts, with more arriving as each signal turns honest.
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Compounding depth
Starting the day you join, every day of download history past WP.org's public 730-day window is retained for members only. It's small today, and only ours as it grows.
Free vs. the desk
Free tells you what happened. Membership tells you what to build.
| Asset | Free | Member: join the desk |
|---|---|---|
| Per-app data: download history, health facts, reviews where covered | Free for everyone, no exceptions* | |
| Leaderboards: Rising Stars, Maintenance Watch, New Entrants | Top 10 per tag · Maintenance Watch: the full list, always | Full ranking, custom windows, CSV export |
| The screening desk | Members only | Full access: the whole catalog, filterable by momentum, health, niche, and size |
| Watchlists | Watch any plugin, app, or tag. Free account, no card | + alerts the moment it shifts |
| Unmet Needs | Teaser + evidence links for every cleared need | The sealed verdict: buildable scope, incumbent gap, MVP cut |
| Case files filed to date | Read the free teaser | Read every sealed verdict: 9 filed as of 2026-07-09 |
* Always free. Some plugins and apps just have less data than others. If reviews aren't shown, we don't have them yet, not because they're locked. See how we verify →
As of 2026-07-29: 9 verdicts filed · 3,212 WordPress plugin pages · 2,007 Shopify app pages.
Before you join
Questions worth asking first
What do I get for $49/mo?
Every download chart, health fact, and Reddit-mention count is already free, for every plugin and app the desk tracks. Membership adds the parts that take real screening: the full leaderboards, not just the top 10. The whole catalog, filterable. Watchlist alerts. And every sealed verdict: what to build, where the gap is, and how big to scope it.
What's the founding rate, exactly?
$29/mo, locked for as long as you stay a member. Limited to the first 100 seats, launch week only. After that window closes, the desk is $49/mo or $490/yr, which works out to two months free against the monthly rate.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. There's no contract. Cancel from your account whenever you want, and you keep access through the period you already paid for.
How is this different from an idea list?
An idea list hands you a scored maybe and leaves the diligence to you. Every need on this board cleared at least 5 distinct, independently sourced asks before it was published, and every case file cites its evidence: link, subreddit, and date. Verify the demand yourself before you ever pay for the verdict.
Which ecosystems does the desk cover?
WordPress plugins and Shopify apps, nothing else, today. That's 67,000+ WordPress plugins and 15,600+ Shopify apps, cross-checked against the Reddit threads asking for what they don't do.
How do I know the numbers are real?
Every fact on the desk links back to its source: WP.org's stats API, an Internet Archive snapshot, or a live Reddit thread. There's no composite score or 0–100 badge anywhere on the site. See how we verify →