GoHaus is an independent smart home review site — every product we recommend, we've bought and tested ourselves.
It started with a robot vacuum that couldn't find its way home.
Two of us bought the same "editor's pick" smart vacuum from two different sites. One got a product that worked perfectly. The other got a unit that got stuck under the same couch for three days straight — from a review that scored it 9.4 out of 10. That gap is the entire reason GoHaus exists.
"If a review can't tell you the truth about a bad day with a product, it isn't a review — it's an ad."
Here's how that grew.
So we started buying every product ourselves, living with it for weeks instead of days, and writing down the bad mornings along with the good ones. What began as two people in a spare bedroom is now a small team testing across six regions — still buying everything ourselves, still writing down the bad mornings.
We stayed focused on smart home because the stakes are quietly higher than most categories we could have picked. A camera that fails to record the one night it mattered, or a lock that locks a parent out in the rain, isn't a bad rating — it's a bad night for a real family. Done well, this technology gives people back time, catches the moment a package goes missing from the porch, and lets a parent check on an empty house from a train platform two cities away. That's the gap between a gadget and a genuine upgrade to how someone lives, and it's the only gap we're interested in reporting on.
Our Journey
Founded
Two testers, one spare bedroom, zero sponsors.
First 100 Reviews
Hit our first testing milestone across four categories.
Team Grows
Dedicated testers per category, expansion into the UK and Canada.
Global Reach
Testing across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East, with reviewers in each market.
340+ Products Tested
Still buying everything ourselves, every single time.
The tools changed. The standard didn't.
"Every recommendation on GoHaus should survive the same test we'd want before spending our own money."
That standard is why every product on GoHaus is bought with our own money and lived with for at least two weeks — no lab booths, just the same WiFi, walls, and daily routines a normal household deals with. Every GoHaus Score breaks down into performance, build quality, value, ease of use, and durability, and none of it is negotiable: brands cannot buy placement, a higher score, or early sight of a review.
Today that adds up to 340+ products tested and more than 12,000 hours of hands-on use, across six markets — the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and the Middle East — with a reader trust score of 4.8 out of 5. Still bought ourselves, every time. Still written down honestly, good mornings and bad ones alike.
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