Articles tagged: Review
NICO STRAND · REVIEW
Base44 Review: I Built a Real App in One Prompt. Here's Everything That Comes After.
Base44 generated a working full-stack app from one sentence. The first minute is remarkable. The rest of the story — credits, daily caps, and the date that accepted year 72026 without complaint — is what this review is actually about.
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
Reality Check: I Own Meta Ray-Bans. Here's What 'Designed for Privacy' Actually Means.
Meta marketed their smart glasses as 'designed for privacy, controlled by you.' Then came the lawsuits, the contractor footage scandal, and the BBC investigation. A Reality Check from someone who bought a pair.
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
What Privacy Actually Costs: Proton's Suite After 90 Days of Professional Use
Proton bundles encrypted mail, VPN, storage and passwords for the price of one competitor's password manager. The maths works. The gap in the encryption promise is the part worth knowing first.
MARCUS WEBB · REVIEW
Is Perplexity Pro Still Worth $20 a Month? A Reality Check After the Quiet Throttling
Perplexity Pro was the easy AI subscription recommendation. Then the limits quietly changed. What Pro actually gets you in 2026, what happened in May, and who should still pay.
NICO STRAND · REVIEW
I Cloned My Own Voice With ElevenLabs in an Afternoon: Here's What It Cost and What It Can't Do
ElevenLabs makes voice cloning sound simple. A non-technical test of what it actually takes, what the output is genuinely useful for, and where the limits are.