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Thonest review: verified revenue proof you can put on your own site

Thonest connects to your payment processor with a read-only key, reads your billing history, and turns it into a public revenue timeline. You get a page at thonest.com/your-company and one line of code that puts the same timeline on your own site, updating itself as customers pay. The point is that a prospect can check the numbers instead of taking your word for them. Stripe is the connection most businesses will use, and Thonest is adding more.

This review sticks to what Thonest publishes on its own site, read on September 7, 2026, and to what its rivals publish on theirs. Where a figure comes from Thonest's own sample company rather than a customer, we say so. Hatchwise has no commercial relationship with Thonest, TrustMRR or ShowMRR.

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The short version

Seven lines, if you are in a hurry

  • Thonest reads your revenue out of your payment processor and publishes it as a timeline you can embed on your own site.
  • Stripe is the main connection today, and more processors are being added.
  • The connection is a read-only key. It can see subscriptions and customers, and cannot move money.
  • You write one sentence per moment. The revenue on that date, and what happened 30, 90 and 180 days after, is computed.
  • Free covers one business, including the public page and the embed. Pro is $79 a month for multiple products.
  • TrustMRR and ShowMRR are directories you get listed in. Thonest is a page you own and put on your own domain.
  • You can hide a moment, but not edit the revenue line, so read a timeline as real numbers with curated commentary.
$0
to publish a verified timeline for one business, embed included
1
line of code to put the timeline on your own site
1
sentence is all you write per moment. The numbers around it are computed
How it works

What happens between connecting billing and publishing a page

  1. Step 01

    Connect your billing

    You paste a read-only key from your payment processor. Stripe is the connection most people will use, and Thonest is adding others. The key can see subscriptions and customers and nothing else, so it cannot move money, issue refunds or change your account. Thonest says the connection takes about a minute, and you can revoke the key from your dashboard.

  2. Step 02

    The history builds itself

    Thonest reads back through what your payments can account for and draws the monthly revenue line, along with the customer count behind it. Nothing is entered by hand. Months it measured directly are shown solid, and months rebuilt from older billing history are shown faded, which is an unusually plain way to admit where the data is reconstructed.

  3. Step 03

    You add what happened

    The only part you type is one sentence per moment: launched on Product Hunt, raised the price from $29 to $49, switched who we sell to, hired the first support person. Each sentence arrives with the MRR and customer count from its own date attached, and with what the business did 30, 90 and 180 days later. Thonest also dates its own milestones for you, such as crossing a revenue threshold or a run of growth months.

  4. Step 04

    Publish, or embed it

    Nothing is public until you publish. Then you get a page you can send to a customer, an investor or a hire, and an iframe you can paste onto your own about page so the numbers update themselves as customers pay. Any single moment can be hidden in one click and put back later. Hiding never deletes anything, and the revenue line stays complete either way.

At a glance

Thonest in ten lines

What it is
A verified revenue timeline you publish at thonest.com/your-company or embed on your own site
Where the numbers come from
Read from your payment processor with a read-only key, never typed in. Stripe is the main connection, with more processors being added
History covered
Every month your payments can account for, as far back as your billing goes
What you write
One sentence per moment: a launch, a pricing change, a pivot, a hire. Everything else is computed
What gets computed
MRR and customer count on the date of each moment, plus the change 30, 90 and 180 days after
Milestones
Thresholds crossed, all-time highs, growth streaks and the lowest month are found and dated for you
Control
Nothing is public until you publish, and any moment can be hidden without deleting it
Distribution
Public page, an iframe embed for your own site, and share cards for any month
Free plan
$0 a month covers one business, full history, public page and embed
Paid plan
Pro at $79 a month, listed as a founding price locked for 12 months
Pricing

What Thonest costs, and what the free plan actually includes

The free plan is not a trial. It covers one business with the whole history, the public page and the embed. Pro exists for founders running more than one product.

Thonest plans with price, who each is for, and what is included
PlanPriceWho it is forWhat it includes
Free$0 a monthOne businessFull revenue history, a public timeline, the embed, moments with real numbers attached, share cards, light and dark themes
Pro$79 a monthFounders running more than one productEverything in Free on every product you run, refresh on demand instead of waiting for the daily update, and public goals settled from your own revenue

Prices read from thonest.com on September 7, 2026. Pro is listed as a founding price locked for 12 months, so it is a rate that can change for new accounts later.

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What works

Where Thonest earns its place

  • The proof does not depend on trusting the founder. Figures are read out of billing rather than typed into a form, so a reader is checking the payment processor's version of events.
  • It answers the question a chart never does. Each moment carries the revenue on its own date and what happened in the three, six and twelve weeks after, which is the part a screenshot of a dashboard cannot show.
  • Setup is genuinely short. Connect once and the history, the milestones and the dates arrive already built.
  • The embed is the real product. Your proof sits on your own about page or in your own sales email, updating itself, instead of living only on someone else's directory.
  • The free plan is not a teaser. One business gets the full history, the public page and the embed at no cost.
  • The read-only key is the right shape for this. It can see subscriptions and customers, cannot move money, and can be revoked from the dashboard.
  • Reconstructed months are marked as reconstructed rather than presented as measured, which is more caution than most transparency tools show.
What to weigh

The limits worth knowing first

  • Selective hiding cuts both ways. A founder can hide any moment, so a timeline proves the revenue line is real without proving you are seeing every decision behind it. The revenue line staying complete is what keeps it worth reading.
  • It needs recurring revenue in a supported processor. If you bill by invoice, in cash, or through a processor Thonest has not connected yet, there is nothing to read.
  • Verification stops at the processor. It shows what was charged, not whether it was refunded later by other means, nor anything about profit, churn quality or how the money was spent.
  • Most plans update daily. Refreshing the moment your numbers change is a Pro feature.
  • Publishing revenue is a decision you cannot fully take back. Competitors, customers and candidates all read the same page, and hiding a month later does not unsee it.
  • It is young, and the connection list is still growing. Check that your own processor is supported before planning a launch around it.
  • The figures on Thonest's own marketing pages come from a sample company. They illustrate the format rather than any customer's results.
The competition

How Thonest compares to TrustMRR, ShowMRR and the rest

Verified revenue has split into two shapes. One is a directory you get listed in, where the value is being findable and comparable next to other companies. The other is a page you own and publish on your own domain. Thonest is firmly the second, which is why comparing it to a marketplace on features alone misses the point.

TrustMRR

What it is
A database of verified startup revenues built around buying and selling businesses. Listings carry revenue, asking price and a multiple, alongside a public MRR leaderboard.
Where it overlaps
Both verify revenue through a payment processor rather than taking a founder's word for it.
Where they differ
TrustMRR is a marketplace you appear in, with acquisition as the point. Thonest is a page you own and embed on your own site, with the sales conversation as the point. If you are selling the company, a marketplace listing is the closer fit.

ShowMRR

What it is
A verified startup revenue database with a leaderboard, a marketplace, a revenue API and co-founder matching. Founders connect Lemon Squeezy, Stripe or Polar to publish real MRR.
Where it overlaps
Same verification idea, same connect-your-processor step.
Where they differ
ShowMRR is a directory plus data layer: the value is being findable and comparable next to other startups. Thonest gives you one narrative page about your own business and an embed for your own domain. Directory listing versus owned proof.

Indie Hackers products

What it is
Founders list products and revenue publicly alongside posts and discussion, in front of a large existing audience.
Where it overlaps
Both are public revenue transparency aimed at founders.
Where they differ
Indie Hackers revenue is self-reported, which is exactly the gap Thonest exists to close. The trade is audience against verification: Indie Hackers brings readers, Thonest brings numbers a sceptic can check.

Screenshots and public dashboards

What it is
A Stripe screenshot in a launch post, or a self-hosted metrics page built by hand.
Where it overlaps
Both are attempts to show revenue.
Where they differ
A screenshot is trivially edited and out of date the day after it is taken, and a hand-built dashboard is work you keep doing forever. Thonest's argument is that neither survives a sceptical reader, and that maintaining either is a job nobody wants.

Claims about each service were read from its own live pages on September 7, 2026. Where a rival does not publish a price, we do not guess one.

Verdict

Who should use it, and who should not

It fits if

You have recurring revenue in a supported processor, you sell to people who can walk away because they doubt you will exist next year, and the numbers are good enough to help you. Sales pages, about pages, hiring pages and fundraising conversations are where the embed earns its place.

It does not fit if

You bill by invoice or in cash, your processor is not connected yet, the numbers would hurt more than help, or you are trying to sell the business, in which case a marketplace listing does more for you than an embed does.

The honest summary is narrow and useful. Thonest does not make your revenue look better, and it does not try to. It removes one specific objection, the one where a prospect quietly wonders whether you will still be trading next year, and it removes it on your own site rather than on someone else's list. If that objection is costing you deals, the free plan answers the question in about a minute. If it is not, you do not need this.

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Questions

Thonest questions, answered plainly

What is Thonest?

Thonest turns a business's real revenue into a verified public timeline. It connects to your payment processor with a read-only key, reads your billing history, and builds a page showing monthly revenue, the milestones it found, and the moments you chose to explain. You can publish that page at thonest.com/your-company or embed it on your own site with one line of code.

How does Thonest verify revenue?

Every figure is read from your payment processor rather than typed into a form, so the numbers on the page are the processor's version of what was charged. Months Thonest measured directly are shown solid and months rebuilt from older billing history are shown faded, so a reader can tell which is which. Verification stops at the processor: it shows charges, not profit, and not anything that happened outside your billing.

Which payment processors does Thonest connect to?

Stripe is the connection most businesses will use, and Thonest is adding more processors over time. It is built for any business with recurring revenue, including SaaS, subscriptions, retainers and memberships. If your processor is not on the list yet, check before you plan anything around the page, because without a connection there is nothing for Thonest to read.

Is it safe to connect your billing to Thonest?

Thonest connects with a read-only key that can see subscriptions and customers and nothing else, so it cannot move money, issue refunds or change anything in your account. Thonest says the key is encrypted before storage and can be revoked from your dashboard at any time. As with any third-party billing connection, the sensible check is to create the key with the narrowest scope your processor allows.

How much does Thonest cost?

The free plan is $0 a month and covers one business with the full revenue history, the public timeline, the embed, share cards and light and dark themes. Pro is $79 a month, listed as a founding price locked for 12 months, and adds a timeline for every product you run, refresh on demand instead of the daily update, and public goals settled from your own revenue. Prices read from thonest.com on September 7, 2026.

Can you hide numbers on a Thonest timeline?

You can hide any individual moment, such as a pivot you have not announced or a customer you cannot name, and put it back later. Hiding does not delete anything. What you cannot do is edit the revenue line itself, which is the part that makes the page worth reading. Read a timeline knowing the numbers are real but the commentary is curated.

How is Thonest different from TrustMRR?

TrustMRR is a marketplace and leaderboard of verified startup revenues, built around buying and selling businesses, so listings show revenue, asking price and a multiple. Thonest is not a marketplace. It gives you one page about your own business, with the decisions behind the numbers, and an embed that puts it on your own domain. If your goal is to sell the company, a marketplace fits better. If your goal is to close deals or hires on your own site, an embed does.

How is Thonest different from Indie Hackers or a public dashboard?

Indie Hackers revenue figures are self-reported, and a Stripe screenshot in a launch post can be edited and is stale the next day. Thonest reads the numbers from billing and keeps updating them, so the reader is not being asked to trust the person showing them. The trade-off is audience: a directory or a community brings readers to you, while an embed only works where you already have traffic.

What happens to your timeline if you cancel?

Thonest says you keep your timeline, your history and your embed, that you can cancel from your account at any time, and that nothing you have written is deleted.

Who should not bother with Thonest?

Businesses without recurring billing, anyone on a processor that is not connected yet, and any company whose numbers would raise more doubt than they settle. Publishing revenue is hard to reverse, so it is worth deciding whether the figure helps you before you connect anything.

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