Rules

The amount you pay is your place on the list. Highest at the top, lowest at the bottom. There is no other input.

Whole US dollars only, no cents. The least you can pay is $2 and the most is $100,000. The buttons move in $1 steps, and you can type any amount in between.

Taking a particular spot costs $1 more than whoever is sitting in it. A spot held at $203 costs $204 to take.

If two people land on the same amount, whoever got there first sits higher.

Paying less than the top still puts you on the list, just further down. You do not have to aim for first place to be on it.

A second payment does not stack on the first one, it replaces it. If you are at $50 and you want $204, you pay $204, not the $154 difference.

Your amount can only go up. If two payments arrive out of order, the higher one is the one that stands.

Being passed moves you down. It never takes you off. A $2 spot bought on the first day is still there a year later, a long way down but still yours.

The list is shown 50 at a time, and every page is a real page that search engines can read.

A product website, or an @handle.

One spot per site, permanently. The spot is keyed to the domain and everything after it is ignored, so yoursite.com/?ref=a and yoursite.com/?ref=b are the same spot rather than two. Nobody can fill the list with copies of one site.

Sites that host many separate products are the exception. There the spot is the domain plus the first part of the path, so github.com/one and github.com/two are separate spots.

An @handle is its own spot, separate from any website.

Once a payment goes through we read the title, description and icon your own page already publishes, and show those. You do not write anything, which is also why nobody can put words on somebody else's row.

If your page does not publish them, or is unreachable when we look, your row shows the bare domain. That is normal and it does not keep you off the list.

An @handle is never fetched, because there is no page behind a handle. It gets a letter instead of a logo.

Stripe handles the payment. There is nothing to sign up for and your card details never reach us.

A completed payment is what claims the spot. Close the payment tab and nothing is claimed and nothing is charged.

Your row appears as soon as the payment settles, usually within a few seconds. The page tells you the moment it lands.

Your row links out to the address you gave, and every click goes straight there.

Payments are final.