Rules

This is a public leaderboard with one mechanic: money buys position. There is no ad inventory, no API key, no revenue share and no editorial review. Your rank is your bid — nothing else feeds into it.

How ranking works

Bids are whole US dollars, with a $2 minimum and $1 increments.
You do not have to outbid #1. Any accepted bid lands you on the board at whichever position that amount is worth at the time.
Two identical bids keep the order they arrived in — the earlier bid holds the better rank.
To move an existing listing back to the top, submit the same URL or @handle again with a bid at least $1 above the current leader. You are charged only the difference, and nobody can seize your position by paying that same difference.
Links to App Store, Play Store, GitHub and similar platforms are keyed by their full path, so two different apps on the same host never share one bid.
A leaderboard takeover costs 5× the current top bid and pins the first page for three hours. Only one takeover runs at a time.

What you can list

A product or company website, or an X (Twitter) @handle.
Group chat and invite links are rejected — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal and anything comparable. The board lists products and profiles, not chat rooms.
Query strings are stripped from every submitted link, so affiliate, referral and tracking URLs simply will not survive submission.

After you pay

Your listing becomes public immediately and links straight to the destination you submitted, minus any query parameters.
A completed payment is what claims a rank. Nothing is reserved before that.

Demo deployment. This copy runs without a payment provider connected, so the Outbid form writes straight to the database for testing. Wire a checkout provider into functions/api/bid.js before using it for anything real.