Rules

Every listing has a net: everything paid to lift it, minus everything paid to bury it. The board sorts on that net, highest first. Nothing decays over time and nothing expires. A rank only changes when somebody pays to change it.

Equal nets keep the order they were set in. The older listing stays higher, so you cannot take a rank by matching it.

Every bid starts at $1, whether it puts something new on the board or adds to a listing already there, up to $999,999 in a single bid. Bids stack: they add to whatever the listing already holds.

You do not need to own a site to bid it up, and paying more than the listing above you is the only way to pass it.

A down-bid subtracts from a listing’s net, dollar for dollar, from $1 up. It is the same money as an up-bid pointed the other way. There is no discount for spite and no premium either.

You can bid down anything, including something nobody has listed yet: a $1 down-bid puts it on the board already underwater, straight into The Graveyard. Down-bids are never refunded and never expire, so a listing that has been buried stays buried until someone pays to lift it back.

There is one leaderboard. Graveyard is the same list read from the other end: poorest net first instead of richest, not a separate place a listing gets dropped into. A listing’s rank, the number its own page and every share card quote, is always its position counting down from the top; Graveyard is just what that same board looks like counting up from the bottom.

There is no floor: a listing can go as far underwater as somebody is willing to pay for. A listing at or below zero is genuinely buried, which is what gives it the red styling wherever it shows up. On a small board, G1 can still be a listing that is net positive; it is just whatever sits lowest right now.

A product website or an X profile. Links are stored without query strings, so affiliate, referral and tracking URLs will not survive submission.

Chat and invite links are rejected: Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal and the rest. So are link shorteners, because they hide where they go.

On platforms where the path identifies the thing (the App Store, GitHub, npm and similar) listings are keyed by that path, so two apps or two repos never share a listing.

A completed payment is what moves the board; nothing is reserved beforehand and an abandoned checkout leaves no trace. Payments are final, in both directions.

Clicks go to the URL you submitted, with query strings stripped.

A listing’s name, its one-line description (shown together on the row and on share cards, as “Name description”) and its category all start out scraped automatically from the site itself. Whoever pays first can leave any of it as scraped or write their own; there are no accounts, so nothing else stops it from being wrong.

The fix is the same as everything else here: any later bid can propose a correction to the name, the category, or the description. It applies the moment that bid pays, and the next bid can simply overwrite it again.