Six days later the number is 413, and my own marketing still said 130

Last week I wrote here that my marketing said 76 banks while the code recognised 130, and that the fix was to stop writing the number by hand: a script reads the registry and regenerates the supported-banks page, so the count can only be wrong if the code is wrong.

Six days later the registry holds 413. The script did its job. The number is right in the Play listing, in both Arabic listings, and on the generated page, because all four are produced from the source.

Today I opened my own Product Hunt launch page and read this: "It recognises 130 banks and wallets." Then the press kit: 130, five times, including the Arabic ١٣٠ and a table row breaking it down as "62 Egypt, 8 Saudi Arabia, 6 UAE, 54 global" — a split that has been wrong since the registry passed 200.

So the lesson from last week was only half learned. I automated the surfaces that a script could reach and left every hand-written one to rot. A press kit is not generated. A directory listing is not generated. A launch page you filled in once is not generated, and nothing on earth will tell you it went stale, because a wrong number renders exactly like a right one.

Two things I have changed:

1. The press kit now carries the full regional split, not a four-way one that stops being true the moment a fifth region exists. If a shape can go stale silently, the shape is the bug, not the number in it.

2. The tracked Play link. While I was in the Product Hunt editor I noticed the store URL had no campaign tag on it at all — a bare listing link. Every install that page has sent since launch filed as organic and cannot be recovered. That is the more expensive of the two mistakes and I only found it because I was there fixing the first one.

If you have a product live in more than three places, the useful exercise is not checking whether your numbers are right. It is listing every surface that states a number, and marking which ones a script can reach. The rest are a manual audit you have to schedule, and mine was six days overdue.