How this site makes money

Affiliate links

21 of the 89 tools listed here pay me a commission if you sign up through my link. The other 68 pay nothing and are listed anyway, which should tell you how much the commission drives what gets covered.

Affiliate links go through /l/ and are marked on the card. It costs you nothing and it does not change the price you pay.

Median

I am the co-founder and CEO of Median, an accounting firm for startups. Median appears in the finance category and in some posts about bookkeeping and startup finance.

I own it, so you should discount my opinion of it accordingly. What I try to do instead of asking for trust is put its price next to its competitors’ prices rather than around them, and say plainly where someone should use something else. For a pre-revenue solo founder, the honest answer is usually a spreadsheet and free software, and the posts say that.

Every mention of Median carries this disclosure at the point of mention, not just here.

What I do not do

No paid placements, no sponsored posts, no ranking sold to a vendor. Nobody pays to be listed, and nobody pays to be listed higher. If that ever changes, it will be written here before it happens.