Tools for building on the internet
A deck of products, one glance each: do you use this?
The bottleneck moved. When anyone can ship a tool in an afternoon, the question is no longer whether a thing can be built. It is whether anyone actually uses it, told straight, by real people, not bought.
So that is what Shovel Stack collects: a verified record of who uses what, and why. Gathered blind, so hype cannot buy a number. Signed, so a yes carries a face. “Real people, with faces, use this” is a kind of fact the internet did not have. This is where it gets made, one honest glance at a time.
You never see the score before you vote. No herd to follow, no count to anchor on. Your verdict is yours.
Connect with X and your stacks carry your face. A product page fills with the real people using it, and why.
Negative verdicts are never attributed to anyone, ever. Honesty needs privacy, and the scores only mean something because saying no is free.
Half of all verdicts are skips. That is the point. A high stack rate here is earned against a crowd that was free to say no.
Built something? Put it in the deck. One name, one link, one sentence. If the crowd stacks it, the page becomes your proof: stacks, a wall of faces, and signed notes from the people actually using it.
Shovel Stack is a Visualize Value idea. VV turns ways of thinking into things you can use: visual explanations, courses, and instruments like this one.
visualizevalue.com ↗Built by Jack Butcher, the designer behind Visualize Value. Ten years in agencies, then one idea: build once, sell twice. This is one of the builds.
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