Plain-language glossary
What the numbers mean.
Product ranking measures recent participation. It does not establish product quality, revenue, or a promise of feedback.
Working beta
A usable product or interactive build accessible through a public HTTPS demo. A concept or marketing page alone does not qualify. Editorial examples and listings without usable demo links are not treated as verified personalized recommendations.
Feedback Credits
Internal testing capacity, separate from XP. Verified accounts receive 2 starter credits once. Completing a qualifying test earns 1 credit; funding one tester slot costs 1 credit. Creator ratings do not remove earned credits. Unfilled slots can be refunded when no tests are in progress.
Match relevance
Discovery considers your interests, product categories, feedback strengths, freshness and available feedback capacity. Testing usefulness is evaluated separately from curiosity: specialist missions still require the relevant expertise. Explanations describe relevance; a match is not a guarantee of feedback quality.
Perspective and impact
Perspective describes your relationship to a product: target user, domain-aware, product feedback, technical review, or general early adopter. Usefulness is the creator’s quality rating, separate from relevance. Impact records whether the creator shipped an improvement from your feedback.
Demo launch
A signed-in user opened a demo through Trade on Ideas. Unique users are counted per product. This is not proof that the user completed a task or that the product worked for them. Anonymous visitors can try demos without contributing to these counts.
Structured critique
Qualifying mission feedback describes what you did, where you hesitated, what you expected, and what you would change. It also records willingness to return and the tester’s perspective. Completion confirmation, distinct specific answers, and duplicate checks are required. Each user can earn rewards once per product. Earlier critiques remain in history.
Discovery feeds
For You blends relevant products, adjacent interests and exploration. Trending prioritizes recent meaningful testing, critiques, builder responses and improvements, with time decay. New gives recently shipped, verified products room to be discovered. Needs Feedback surfaces active missions with funded slots and an unfinished feedback goal. All keeps broader exploration available. Exact ranking weights are internal and adjustable.
Feedback goals
A creator can request a number of critiques or leave the goal open-ended. Progress counts completed mission critiques that remain visible. A goal does not create funded slots, spend credits, or promise testers. The available testing spots come from the existing credit-funded mission.
XP, levels, and badges
XP represents contribution and reputation: 10 for a qualifying mission critique, 10 for a useful creator rating or 4 for partly useful, and 25 when feedback leads to a shipped improvement. Opening demos, comments, and raw clicks earn no new XP. Previously earned XP remains in account history. Specialty status requires three useful mission critiques in a category.
Earlier waitlists and pledges
Earlier versions supported seven-day waitlists and non-payment pledges. Existing records remain manageable from account history. They are not the current launch offer, do not collect money, and do not influence the feedback score. See the Pledge Policy for existing records.