Why I Stopped Trusting Startup Claims and Built Trusers

👋 Hey everyone Kevin here, maker of Trusers.

I’m a new freelancer, and lately I’ve felt stuck in a bubble where everyone around me seems instantly successful. Every product looks polished, every landing page shows traction, and every story sounds convincing. But the more I looked closer, the more something felt off.

AI has made it incredibly easy to generate landing pages, metrics, and even testimonials. In fact, many AI tools actively suggest fake testimonials by default. I’ve seen them reused across different websites, sometimes barely changed, sometimes not at all. Over time, I reached a point where I started trusting almost no one and that felt wrong.

I don’t believe the solution is to exaggerate success even more or to chase vanity metrics. What’s missing is something simpler: a way to verify reality.

That’s why I built Trusers. Not to showcase revenue or hype, but to create a neutral trust badge, a signal that proves a startup has real, paying customers. Not success. Not potential. Just something solid you can believe in.

I think we can do better than a system where trust is assumed to be fake by default. Trusers is my attempt to change that.

Thanks for checking it out 🙌