Nothing you said refutes any of my criticism.

Since you're accusing me of libel, I just checked the fomo website, and I can see that right now, it's presenting fake data. It shows a live updating counter of the number of fomo's impressions and clicks, but these numbers are updating every 200ms based on client-side JS, not real data. From the HTML source:

    setInterval(function() {
      var serverTimestamp = 1743654982;

      // impressions
      var imprCountWhenChecked = 19546526366;
      var imprFrequence = 80;
      var freshImprCount = Math.ceil(imprCountWhenChecked + (Date.now()/1000 - serverTimestamp) * imprFrequence);

      document.getElementById('statisticsTotalImprCount').innerHTML = freshImprCount.toLocaleString('en-US');

      // clicks
      var clickCountWhenChecked = 43316684;
      var clickFrequence = 0.15;
      var freshClickCount = Math.ceil(clickCountWhenChecked + (Date.now()/1000 - serverTimestamp) * clickFrequence);

      document.getElementById('statisticsTotalClickCount').innerHTML = freshClickCount.toLocaleString('en-US');
    }, 200);

If the site fakes that data and you've publicly admitted to lying to your users in other cases, it increases the odds that other data you presented was inauthentic.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20181101030710/https://fomo.com/

ok back up - you claimed we used fake data. obviously you are referring to "John bought X, Y mins ago" notifications. the actual product.

for our homepage counter, this is not customers. this is notification count. with thousands of connected websites, each showing multiple notifications per page load, we quick racked up billions of notifications shown.

running `select count(*) from events` on every landing page load is untenable. instead, every N period we'd check on our avg daily notification count, then update the landing page JS to give users a sense of scale. this number was perpetually under-reporting our actual metrics.

for metrics that actually matter, like signups, customers etc, we created an Open API and read from those metrics on various landing pages: https://fomo.com/open https://docs.fomo.com/reference/fomo-open

and for the core product notifications, "John bought X, Y mins ago" we only allowed data from native integrations. if we saw someone pinging webhooks to us with fake data, we deleted their account. if someone asked for a CSV upload feature, we deleted their account. i cannot say the same for our competitors, who welcomed these use cases with open arms.

bottom line - you're a hater. you don't like Fomo (fine), so you're trying to sabotage the sale of another, completely unrelated product. think about where this bitterness comes from and do better next time.