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DoNotPay

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DoNotPay

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Josh Browder built an AI robot lawyer for DoNotPay to help consumers fight back for $3/month. observed

fresh · evidence 14d ago 5 sources no confidence data
—/100
Developer momentum
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

Funding
no round
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
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homepage

Traction

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Current round

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Opportunity & risk

No standout signal or flag yet.

4 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

2 claims on record 1 verified 1 contradicted 0 still unproven

Sharpest miss on record: “DoNotPay will achieve unicorn status (a valuation of $1 billion or more) and operate with only 50 employees.” — DoNotPay has not reached a $1 billion valuation and its employee count has grown well beyond 50.

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Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.2

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 315 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 315 DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says 2024-09-26 ↗

Raw observations 10 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name DoNotPay observed intelligence.claims 2026-10-01 normalized 0.90
community.hn.max_points 315 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41659324", "title": "DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says", "points": 315, "created_at": "2024-09-26"} observed artifact ↗ 2024-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41659324", "title": "DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says", "points": 315, "created_at": "2024-09-26"} observed artifact ↗ 2024-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41659324", "title": "DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says", "points": 315, "created_at": "2024-09-26"} observed artifact ↗ 2024-09-26 normalized 0.20
description Josh Browder built an AI robot lawyer for DoNotPay to help consumers fight back for $3/month. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-09 normalized 0.60
sector emerging derived calc 2026-09-28 normalized 0.50
signal.attributed_claims 2 observed intelligence.claims 2026-09-26 parsed 0.90