Rules

Taking #1 is the one restricted move, and the rule is the same for everyone. To take the top spot you must clear the leader by:

• at least $5 or 5%, whichever is bigger
• and at most $100 or 20%, whichever is bigger

Every other place is a free-for-all: land wherever your money lands. Outbidding someone mid-board just means paying a dollar more than they have.

The band is measured against the best total among the other listings, never your own — so the leader can't extend their lead once they're a full step clear, because there is no legal amount left for them to pay. The gap can only close. On boards without this rule, one bidder jumps to $10,000, everyone else gives up, and the game is over.

Right now the bracket is empty: anything from $5 to $100 makes you the first board in, and #1 by default.

Enter the same listing again to top it up — you keep everything you've already paid, so raising costs only the difference. Any amount from $5 up, unless you're going for #1, which has to clear the leader properly.

Past spend is a permanent discount on every future raise. Somebody who has been on the board a while reclaims the top far more cheaply than a newcomer.

What belongs here is a board — a leaderboard, a ranking, an aggregator, anything whose job is to put other things in order. That's the subject, and it's the whole reason a place on this one is worth paying for.

Nothing in the software checks it. The submission form takes websites, plus apps and repositories on the platforms that host them — the App Store, Google Play and GitHub — and refuses only what's listed below. Put something else up and it will go on the board; it will simply be buying attention from a room that came to look at rankings.

A website is listed once per domain and shown by it, so you can see where a click goes before you take it. An app or repository is listed once per app or repository — a platform link keys on what it points at, not on the platform — and is shown by its own name and icon, taken from the store.

Enter the same site, app or repository again and you raise the board that's already there rather than starting a second one.

Addresses are normalised before they go on the board: forced to https, stripped of query strings and fragments, and lower-cased. Affiliate, referral and tracking parameters will not survive, so don't bother adding them.

Not allowed, and refused at submission:

• Link shorteners — the board shows where a click actually goes.
• Chat and invite links: Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal.
• IP addresses, private hosts, and anything not reachable on the public web.

Also not allowed, and removed if it turns up: sexual or adult content, anything illegal, malware, and impersonating a business you don't run. We can take a listing down if it breaks these rules.

Every row shows how many times its link has been clicked, and what those clicks have cost. Repeat clicks from the same person count — someone coming back twice really did come back twice. On a board of boards, that number is the only thing on the page you didn't pay for.

Automated traffic doesn't. Requests that don't come from a browser on this page are ignored, and clicks are rate-limited per visitor, so the number can't be inflated by a script.

It undercounts slightly. Ad blockers stop the counter rather than the click, and opening a listing from the right-click menu can't be detected at all. Every outbound link carries ?utm_source=finalbid so you can check the traffic in your own analytics rather than taking our number for it.

Payments are final and non-refundable. Anyone can pass you at any time; your listing stays in the bracket at whatever rank your total earns, which is what you paid for — unless it breaks the rules above, in which case we can remove it.

If a payment is refunded — by us, or by Stripe under its own policies — the money stops counting toward the listing's place, and a listing left with nothing on it comes off the bracket.

If something goes wrong with a payment, get in touch on X before opening a dispute — it is faster, and we will sort it out. Nothing here limits rights that can't legally be excluded.