Why I Score Apps Instead of Just Roasting Them

There is no shortage of people who will roast your design for free. Post a screenshot in the right place and you will get a dozen replies telling you it looks like AI slop. What you will not get is a single thing you can do about it. That gap is why I score instead of roast.

A roast tells you that. A score tells you what.

A roast is a verdict: this looks cheap. It confirms the wrongness you already felt and adds nothing, because you knew it looked off. That is the whole problem. Founders are drowning in "it needs polish" and starving for "change this pixel."

A score is different in kind. It is a number, a band, and a list of named tells pinned to the exact screen. It turns a feeling into a task. You can watch the number move as you fix things, which means you finally know when you are done, the thing the endless ship, doubt, fiddle loop never gives you.

Why a number beats an opinion

Opinions vary and roasts contradict each other, so you cannot trust any single one. A consistent scoring method applied the same way every time gives you something an opinion never can: a scoreboard. The 1,590 launch study only means anything because every page was scored the same way. Consistency is what turns judgment into data.

The deeper reason: owned data

There is a strategy underneath this too. Anyone can have an opinion, and opinions do not compound. A scoring system that runs across thousands of apps produces something rarer: a real dataset about what makes software look trustworthy. That data is the asset. It is why I am building the score, not just the takes, and why the method matters more than any single teardown.

If you are tired of roasts that tell you that and never what, get the score instead. Run your app through auditmy.design and get the named, pinned, actionable version, then work the list from the slop starter pack.