How the numbers on this site work

There is a version of this website that would have been quicker to build. It would have opened with four large numbers counting up as you scroll, and you would have had no way of knowing what any of them meant.

That version is more impressive for about eleven seconds. Then someone who matters — a journalist, a university registrar, a potential partner — asks where a number came from, and the answer has to be good. So this site does the slower thing instead.

Four kinds of number

Almost every argument about a personal website’s credibility is really an argument about which of these four is being shown, and whether the reader can tell.

• A company figure. Something MYCrave’s team achieved. Real, verifiable against the company’s own publishing, and not a personal accomplishment.
• A personal figure. Something one person did. Rarer, smaller, and much more interesting.
• An owner-stated figure. Something Dhruv has said, that has not yet been reconciled against a record.
• A target. A number about the future. Not an achievement, however inspiring.

On this site each type gets its own colour, its own label and its own entry in the ledger. Hover a number and it tells you which kind it is. Click it and you land on the record: whose figure it is, what it counts, what source it came from, when it was last checked, and when it is due to be checked again.

The awkward cases stay visible

Two examples, both of which a normal launch would have quietly tidied away.

The previous version of this site published a distance figure of three lakh kilometres. Dhruv now describes roughly five lakh. Both figures exist in public, under his name. Rather than overwrite one with the other, the ledger holds both and marks the discrepancy as unresolved, because the honest position right now is that the number needs a definition before it needs a headline.

Similarly, MYCrave’s site reports more than two lakh people educated, while a 2025 article from the same organisation reports a differently scoped figure. Those are probably measuring different things over different periods. Until it is clear which, neither number appears in a sentence on this site — only in the ledger, marked as conflicting.

Why bother

Because the alternative is a site that cannot survive its first serious reader. Numbers that cannot be defended have to be defended eventually, usually at the worst moment, and usually by someone who was not in the room when they were written.

There is also a simpler reason. The work here is intellectual property — an entire field built on the idea that it matters who made something and whether they can prove it. A site that was careless about provenance would be making an argument against its own subject.

What you can do with this

If you are a journalist, the ledger is a source list. If you are an institution deciding whether to invite Dhruv, it tells you which claims are load-bearing. And if you find something wrong in it, the corrections policy is a real page with a real route, not a legal formality.