Founder Story
I built a small site and added Trustpilot, because it is the review platform everyone knows. After a few months I had 23 reviews, all five-star. Then a 4-star review arrived. I replied honestly: yes, there are corner cases where things do not work perfectly.
The review disappeared. No notification. No reason. No record. To this day I do not know who removed it or why.
Then I learned what the free plan really means: I could not display my own score. I could not show the review texts my own users wrote for me. Everything my customers said was locked behind a $99/month paywall. All I could have was a button.
So I am building fairstar.dev to replace it. The widget above is the first version. It works. The rest is coming. The rules are simple: owners control their wall, but every hidden review is logged, the author always knows, and the stats are public. Nothing disappears silently.
If it is easy to fake, it is impossible to trust.