Subscriber count is a vanity metric. A channel with 500K subs and 20K median views on recent uploads isn't the success story the number implies.
I built Channel Reality Check to see past that. Paste in a channel and it splits Shorts out from long-form uploads (Shorts monetize at roughly a tenth the rate, so blending them skews everything), then scores discoverability, momentum, consistency, and revenue potential out of 100.
I built this to evaluate niches before starting my own channel. On the first real test it caught a channel where the blended median was understating true long-form performance by more than 2x, a number I'd already used to kill a different idea.
Free, no signup: https://channel-reality-check.jhfranco.workers.dev
First thing I've ever shipped and launched. Would love feedback, especially on whether the scoring makes sense or feels arbitrary.
The interesting part is challenging the metrics creators usually optimize around.
Subscriber count is easy to show, but recent performance and monetization potential are much closer to reality. Curious which signal users trust most once they compare the score with their own channel knowledge.