One person. Zero affiliate money. A public formula.
SupplierSpy exists because every other "Top 10 Dropshipping Suppliers" list you can Google is sponsored, affiliate-linked, or both. This one isn't. It's a small editorial project run in the open — the code is on GitHub, the scoring formula is versioned, and the receipts are on every profile.
Why this exists
Dropshipping supplier "reviews" are almost always written by the supplier's affiliate program, a platform with a commercial partnership, or an SEO farm chasing the keyword. The ranking conveniently matches whoever pays the best commission. That's not a benchmark — that's a billboard.
SupplierSpy is the opposite: independent, algorithmic, and boring on purpose. Every supplier is scored against the same 8-dimension formula on public signals only. If a supplier becomes more transparent, its score goes up automatically. If one stops publishing financials, the score drops. Nobody has the power to flip it by hand — not even me.
The methodology is versioned and documented at /how-we-score. The whole site is open-source at https://github.com/DB-Shadow/supplierspy_com — fork it, audit it, steal it.
How SupplierSpy makes money
Short version: it doesn't. Not yet. This is a transparency project running on a Cloudflare Worker that costs about the price of a sandwich per month. When a revenue model appears, it will be one that can't bend the ranking.
No ads. No affiliates. No sponsorships. No supplier has ever paid a cent to be listed, scored, or placed.
A paid, downloadable end-of-year report for agencies and investors. Same scores as the free site, extra analysis. Buying it doesn't change rankings.
Machine-readable access to scores and history for tooling that wants to integrate. Pricing by request volume, not by vendor.
Clearly labeled "Sponsored" editorial explainers separate from the leaderboard. A supplier paying for a deep dive does not move its ranking. Ever.
If a supplier paid to be #1, the whole project would be worthless. So that will never be a product.
Corrections & disputes
If a fact on a supplier profile is wrong and a public source supports the correction, it gets fixed. If a supplier wants to dispute a dimension score, the fastest path is to publish more public data (financial filings, shipping origin pages, transparent pricing) — the score updates on the next refresh cycle automatically.
Two ways to reach me:
- Email hello@supplierspy.com with a public source URL.
- Open a
score-disputeissue: https://github.com/DB-Shadow/supplierspy_com/issues/new?labels=score-dispute
Press & citations
Journalists, bloggers, YouTubers, and AI tools are welcome to cite SupplierSpy scores and quote any page. Attribution is appreciated: "SupplierSpy (supplierspy.com)" with a link back. Data is licensed CC BY 4.0, code is MIT — full terms at /terms. For embargoed analysis or methodology questions, email hello@supplierspy.com.