Open development
How is Truecost evolving?
All changes, reasoning, and responses to user feedback — openly available.
v3.0
2026-03-15
Openness and community feedback
- Polluter emissions now on the Truecost scale (per day) — enables direct comparison with everyday choices
- Public changelog page (this page) — all changes and reasoning openly available
- Feedback system: 'Is the number wrong?' — discuss with AI and submit reasoned feedback
- Query feature: compare two items side by side
- Query feature: checks if item already exists in database or was previously queried
v2.0
2026-03-12
Comprehensive data and bilingual support
- Products 8 → 39 (myth-busting comparisons, truly impactful choices)
- Polluters 3 → 10 (Saudi Aramco, China coal, Norilsk, Niger Delta, etc.)
- 12 recommended pair comparisons with side-by-side view
- Infographic video: animated methodology explainer (Remotion + Gemini TTS)
- Ask the Truecost of anything (Claude API integration)
- Deployment to Fly.io (Stockholm, free tier)
- Full English translation of all content
v1.0
2026-03-08
MVP — first public release
- 8 products across five environmental dimensions (carbon, water, land, waste, toxicity)
- Scoring based on planetary boundaries (Fanning et al. 2024)
- 3 major polluters
- Methodology page with transparent calculation
- Floor rule: no catastrophic single-dimension impact goes unnoticed