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 built my own review widget for that project. After using it for a few months, it worked so well that I realized other makers could benefit from it too. That is how fairstar.dev was born, built as an independent tool on that same tested logic.
Today, both the widget and the admin dashboard are fully functional. From here, the project will grow based on real feedback, new ideas, and feature requests from its users. The core rule remains simple: owners control their wall, but nothing disappears silently.
If it is easy to fake, it is impossible to trust.