Money in, rank out

Bidding

• The minimum bid is $5. The maximum single bid is $50,000. Amounts are whole dollars.
• Bids accumulate. Every bid on the same URL is added to that URL's total. You are topping up a position, not replacing one, so a second $20 bid puts you at $40 — not back at $20.
• Everyone's money stacks on one row. Some boards make your rank equal your current price, so moving up costs only the difference between you and the row above. There is no difference to pay here — every payment from every person is added to that URL's total and stays there, so ten people bidding $20 on the same link puts $200 behind it.
• Rank is the sum of bids inside the period. Nothing else is counted: not clicks, not age, not how nice the site is.
• Ties go to whoever got there first. Matching the leader's total does not take the top spot. Taking #1 costs $5 more than the current leader on that board.
• A bid below the top still puts you on the board — at whatever rank that money is worth right now.
• You can bid on someone else's link. Tick Gift and the bid is marked as one in the activity feed. It counts exactly like any other bid on every board; the only difference is that everyone can see it was a present. Leave a message with it.

Locking the top spot

Money buys rank. A lock buys time. Whoever is #1 on the weekly board can pay to stay pinned there for one, three or six hours, and for that window nobody can pass them no matter how much they bid.

• Only the current weekly #1 can buy one, and only on the weekly board. The price is a share of that entry's weekly total — 5%, 10% or 18% for the three lengths — with a $5 floor, worked out on the server at the moment of purchase.
• A locked row can show less money than the row beneath it. That is the feature working, not a glitch. The padlock and its countdown say so on the row.
• Only the weekly order freezes. Bids placed during a lock still count in full, still move the monthly and all-time boards immediately, and still land the moment the lock expires.
• One lock runs at a time, board-wide, and after it ends the same entry waits out a cooldown as long as the lock it just bought before it can buy again.
• A lock never outlives the week. It is cut off at the Monday wipe, and buying six hours two hours before the reset gets you two hours at the same price — the price is a share of a weekly total that dies at the wipe too. The purchase screen says so before you pay.
• If your entry loses #1 while you are on the payment page, the lock is void. It pins nothing, and this build has no automatic refund for that. It is a known gap.

The three clocks

• This week counts bids placed since Monday 00:00 — ISO weeks, so Monday starts the week. This is the board the site opens on.
• This month counts bids placed since the 1st.
• All-time counts every settled bid, from the first one to the newest.

Bids never move between boards and nothing is deleted. A bid simply ages out of the short windows while staying on the all-time record forever. When a window rolls over, the board for it starts empty and the price of #1 drops back to $5 until somebody bids.

Listings

• One URL is one row. URLs are normalized before they are stored: the scheme and host are lowercased, a missing scheme becomes https://, default ports and trailing slashes are dropped, and the query string and fragment are thrown away. Example.com/?ref=me and https://example.com are the same row, so referral links do not create a second listing.
• Paths are kept, so store.com/app/alpha and store.com/app/beta are separate rows and do not share a bid.
• Name and description are optional. Leave them blank and the hostname is used. Include them on a later bid to update the row.
• Keep it to things you would show a stranger. No porn, no malware, no phishing, no link shorteners, no invite links to private chats. Rows that break this are removed and the money is not returned.
• Only http and https links are accepted.

Clicks

• Every click on a row's link is recorded and sent straight to your URL, with no query string added.
• Trending ranks by clicks in the trailing hour. It is a separate list from the money boards.
• Clicks never affect rank. They are there so you can judge what a position is actually worth before you buy one.

Refunds

• No refunds. A bid buys a position at the moment it is placed, and positions here are perishable — someone can pass you a minute later. That risk is the product, not a defect in it.
• Duplicate charges are returned. If the same bid is charged twice, tell us and the extra charge goes back.
• If a listing is removed for breaking the rules above, the money stays with the board.
• If the board is taken offline for good, unspent time is not compensated. Bid accordingly.

This build

Payments run on Stripe Checkout in test mode while this version is up: no real card is charged, and test card 4242 4242 4242 4242 with any future expiry and CVC will settle a bid. Treat the numbers on the board as a live demo of the mechanics rather than a record of real money. The rest of the rules describe how it behaves either way.

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