A leaderboard with one input

How it works

You submit a URL and an amount. The amount is added to that URL's total, and the board re-sorts. Bids stack rather than replace each other, and the total belongs to the link rather than to a person, so a row's number is every dollar anyone has ever put behind it. If you want to be higher than the row above you, pay more than the row above you. When someone passes you, you can pay again. There is no other lever — no streak, no karma, no quality score to game.

Every row is a real outbound link. Clicks are counted and shown next to the money, which makes the board legible in an honest way: you can see who paid for the position and whether anyone actually went there.

Why three boards

A single all-time board is a museum. The first few people to spend heavily own the top of it permanently, and everyone who shows up in month four is reading a plaque. That is fine for a hall of fame and useless as a place to compete.

So the same bids feed three boards at once:

This week

Only money bid since Monday. Empties itself every seven days, and it is the board you land on.

This month

Only money bid since the 1st. A medium-length race.

All-time

Every dollar an entry has ever taken. The permanent record.

One bid, three races. The weekly board is the interesting one, which is why it is the one the site opens on. At midnight on Monday it is empty, which means the top spot is briefly cheap and a $20 bid can outrank a company that has spent thousands since launch. By Sunday it usually looks expensive again. Then it resets.

What a bid buys, and what it does not

A bid buys you a row: your favicon, your name, one line of description, and a link that counts clicks. It buys you a rank on all three boards, for as long as nobody spends more than you.

• It does not buy a review, a recommendation, or a claim that the thing is any good.
• It does not buy permanence. Positions here are perishable on purpose.
• It does not buy privacy — the amount you paid is printed next to your name.

Two things bend that slightly, both on purpose. You can bid on somebody else's link and mark it a gift — the board says who was paid for by someone else. And whoever holds #1 on the weekly board can buy a lock: an hour, three or six with nobody able to pass them, which is the one time a row outranks more money than it holds. The rules spell both out.

Treat the board as what it is: an auction for attention, with the price tag left on.

This build

The board runs on Node, Express and Postgres, with hand-written SQL and no ORM. The front end is three static files — no framework, no bundler. Payments go through Stripe Checkout in test mode: no real money moves, and a bid only joins the board once its test payment clears.

The data behind it all is public: /api/leaderboard, /api/trending, /api/activity and /api/stats. Read the rules before you bid.