About Betteria
Betteria answers one question: compared with your own past self, are you up or down, and by how much?
Why it exists
Most people cannot say whether the last year moved them. Salaries rise while prices rise faster; a country gets richer around someone who stood still; a pay cut lands in a year when everyone's money bought less. A feeling is not a measurement.
Betteria measures the year instead: your place in your own country's income distribution and what your income holds after prices, now against a year ago. The answer is one number and a name for its shape, on a card you can keep or send.
It compares you with you. There is no leaderboard and no percentile of other users.
The rules it is built under
Four, and the build refuses to ship when one of them breaks.
- Every number is computed
- Figures come from arithmetic over published data, in code with no model anywhere near it. A model may write a sentence around a number; it can never write the number.
- Nothing to type before your result
- The path from the first screen to the card is taps only: no sign-up, no name, no free text.
- A mirror, not a judge
- The words describe movement, never worth. No advice, no ranking, and a line that went down gets the same card and the same care as one that went up.
- Fast, and nothing watching
- Pages are rendered on the server with no third-party analytics script, and the reading answers in the same frame you tap.
Who makes it
Every message to the address below is read by the people who build Betteria. Security reports have their own page, with the rules that keep good-faith research safe.
Write to [email protected]