⚓ the sea

Touchdown · far side of the moon

You landed. You looked up. And the sky was full of gold.

Nine of those stars aren’t on any chart. Each one is a tool — free tools for everyday UK life: money, scams, renting, buying, eating. Scroll, pick one, use it.

Look up

far side · perfect seeingNo atmosphere, no noise, no adverts. Nothing between you and the light.

nine lights · brighter than the restNot on any chart. Shining anyway.
Dark between the stars. Bring your light. That's the point of them.

The stars were never hidden.
Chart them all.

Nine working tools, burning quietly. Finders keepers.

The haul

Nine pieces.
Take any of them.

Free. Working. Yours to keep. They stack as you sink.
Shrinkflation

Shortchanged

The product shrank. The price didn't. Shortchanged tracks how UK supermarket products quietly got smaller or cheaper to make, and shows the rise you actually paid.

  • Value Erosion Score for every product, 0–100
  • Then-vs-now cards with sourced prices
  • Best-buy swaps: what the real thing costs now
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Accountability

transparenC

Government accountability on live public data. What was promised, what was delivered, and what it cost, all linked to official sources.

  • Pledges vs delivery, tracked in the open
  • MP expenses, contracts, NHS waits, sewage spills
  • Postcode in, your MP and constituency out
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Money & rights

MoneyMind UK

A free course on money and the rights that come with it. Pay, benefits, debt, renting, pensions, tax, in plain English.

  • Quizzes and calculators, not lectures
  • Work rights and renting rights included
  • Progress stays in your browser only
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Lost money

Pension Finder UK

A career of job changes leaves pension pots behind. Find them, gather them in one place, and see what retirement actually looks like.

  • Links the official Gov tracing service
  • Every pot on one dashboard
  • Plain-English retirement projection
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Scams

Inspect

Someone's texted pretending to be your bank. Paste the text, link or number and get a calm read on whether it bites, and what to do next.

  • Verdict plus exact next steps, UK-specific
  • Knows 7726, Action Fraud, Confirmation of Payee
  • Will never tell you something is safe
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Housing

First-Time Buyer Toolkit

Buying a first home in the UK, A to Z. What you can actually afford and what it will actually cost, before anyone's sales patter starts.

  • True-cost maths: stamp duty, deposit, conveyancing
  • Area research and property valuations
  • Viewing checklists and the jargon translated
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Renting

Agent Complaint Letters

The boiler's broken, the deposit's held, the fees look dodgy. Pick what happened and get a formal letter with your statutory rights already cited.

  • Covers repairs, deposits, banned fees, entry without notice
  • Tenant Fees Act 2019 and friends, quoted for you
  • Copy, send, keep a record
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For the fun of it

PlateSpin

Where to eat, decided, without drowning in review-farm noise. The one treasure that's just for the fun of it.

  • Spin, land, go eat
  • No reviews to wade through
  • Free, no account, like everything here
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Entitlements

8

You are entitled to more than you can see. Cards, bank tier, work, memberships, phone plan: it all sits in different apps, so things quietly expire. 8 keeps the list and tells you before any of it runs out.

  • Warns you before a credit, voucher or renewal lapses
  • Add the ones no database holds, like a club discount
  • Share what you choose with the people close to you
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All nine. You discovered them all.

Whatever you charted stays lit. The sky resets for the next one up.

The star chart

Everything in one glance.

Been up before? Straight there, no story.

Shortchanged

Shrinkflation shortchanged-app.pages.dev Opens in a new tab

transparenC

Accountability open-eyes-data…workers.dev Opens in a new tab

MoneyMind UK

Money & rights moneymind-uk-app.pages.dev Opens in a new tab

Pension Finder UK

Lost money pension-finder…pages.dev Opens in a new tab

Inspect

Scams inspect-app.pages.dev Opens in a new tab

First-Time Buyer Toolkit

Housing get-settld…pages.dev Opens in a new tab

Agent Complaint Letters

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PlateSpin

For the fun of it platespin-app.pages.dev Opens in a new tab

Know someone who needs this? Send the coordinates. It's the only way in.

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Why it's up here: no marketing budget, no rent, no name on it, nothing owed to anyone. Don't trust it, check it: every tool shows where its numbers come from.

Every piece last checked .

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