§ Sources
Sources
Every quote and every number on the home page, with where it came from. Everything here that has a source outside this company was read at that source on 2026-08-23; the rest is arithmetic on those figures, or our own prices, which you can check against the pricing page in a click. Quotes link to the individual comment, not the thread, so verifying one is a click rather than a scroll.
Quotes
| ID | Where | Quote | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | §3, quote 1 | I’m the only person who writes documentation in my department… I got tired of being the only one, so I stopped doing that. | Hacker News comment, Sep 2025 |
| S1 | §3, quote 2 | Everyone says they will keep that random wiki page up to date. They never do. | Hacker News comment, Sep 2025 |
| S2 | §3, quote 3 | We have a 3 year old outdated confluence page. | Hacker News comment, Feb 2024 |
| S2 | §3, quote 4 | If your marketing manager needs git access and to edit a markdown file on GitHub — the chance they will document in even ideal conditions goes way down. | Hacker News comment, Feb 2024 |
Numbers
| ID | Figure | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| S3 | $65 / $249 / $12 | GitBook list pricing — Premium $65 per site per month, Ultimate $249 per site per month, members +$12 per user per month. gitbook.com/pricing , checked 2026-08-23. |
| D1 | $125 a month | Derived from S3: $65 site + (5 × $12) = $125. Arithmetic, not a quoted figure. |
| D2 | $1,500 a year | Derived: $125 × 12 = $1,500. |
| D3 | another $144 | Derived: $12 × 12 = $144 — the fifth person’s cost over a year. |
| D4 | $309 a month | Derived from S3: $249 Ultimate site + (5 × $12) = $309. |
| D5 | about 3× | Derived from the ladder printed beside it: $19 → $49 is 2.6×, $49 → $149 is 3.04×. “About 3×” is that larger step to one decimal place, and the flat “3×” it replaced was false by that hundredth. Solo is not a fifth step in the comparison — it is annual-only and single-person, and $39/yr against $19/mo compares a year with a month; annualized it is $39 → $190. |
| S9 | six to twelve hours | Founder-measured, first-party — the time it took to hand-build a repo, static host, theming and deploy pipeline for a previous product. It is one person’s experience, not an industry benchmark. |
| — | Muniment’s own prices | First-party. Free, $39/year, $19, $49 and $149 a month must match the live pricing page on every tier at all times — the one claim here a visitor can check in a single click. |
What was taken off the page
Two claims did not survive their own checks, and are recorded here rather than quietly dropped.
- A GitBook AI cap. §4 said its AI tier was capped at a number of answers. No such cap appears on any tier of the live pricing page — the only numeric AI limit on that page is ten messages a week on the free plan. That is a statement about the pricing page, which is the page the claim was sourced from and the one we read; we have not read every page GitBook publishes and do not claim to. The clause was wrong on the evidence available, so it is gone.
- A Capterra review quote. It reached the copy from a search snippet and could not be read on its live page. Its citation named no reviewer, so there was nobody a reader could go and check either. An unread, unattributable quotation is not something to publish, so it was pulled and the arithmetic it sat beside was kept.
Two of the four quotes above were also restored to their exact wording after being read in full: one had been trimmed a few words early, the other had a word order tidied. Neither changed the point being made, which is precisely why the rule is verbatim or not at all.