Editorial policy

What Recent reads is

The homepage sidebar highlights a small set of external articles about work, pay, gigs, and household money pressure. Sidequity does not republish full articles. Each card links to the original publisher, with a short summary written for context.

Images and credit

Thumbnails use the article's public preview image when available, stored locally with metadata naming the publisher. Each card lists an image credit line. Sidequity does not claim ownership of photos or headlines. If a publisher requests removal, contact us and we will take the item down promptly.

Homepage limit and archive

The sidebar shows up to 5 newest items. When a sixth story is added, the oldest sidebar item moves to the story archive automatically. Nothing is deleted unless you remove it from the data file.

Adding a story (maintainers)

From the project root, after pasting a URL:

npm run story:add -- https://example.com/article

The script fetches title and preview metadata, downloads the preview image into public/stories/, and appends an entry to data/stories.json. Review the summary and credit lines before committing.

What we avoid

• Paywalled content presented as if it were on Sidequity
• Affiliate or sponsored articles without disclosure
• Get-rich or MLM framing
• Images used without a clear link back to the source article