Terms
What a rank is, what a claim buys, and what gets a listing pulled.
Look at a table, cast a vote, submit a listing, claim a spot, embed a badge — all of it runs on the rules below. Nothing here asks for money, and nothing here needs an account until you want to change something.
We decide what is indexed, which board it belongs to, and whether it stays. A submission is a nomination, and a listing is not a permanent address — we can move it, merge it into another, or take it down.
Scores are computed from public numbers on a weekly schedule, and how is written up in full. A position is our reading of those numbers on the day we took them. It is not an endorsement, not an audit, and not advice about what to buy.
Send a name, a link and a line of copy and you are asking us to put them on a board. Send only what is yours to send. You keep whatever rights you had in it; we get the right to show it here, in a share card, and in the feed that describes the site to machines.
Prove a listing is yours and you get the badge, your own words on the page, and the numbers behind your rank. It cannot move you up. A claim can also be contested, withdrawn, or reversed if the proof behind it stops holding.
Slots on the boards are for sale. What money buys is a labelled card in a fixed position — never a rank, never a score, never a place in a table that measured you lower. A featured card carries the word Featured wherever it appears, and the ranking engine cannot see that a slot was ever bought.
Vote once per listing. Votes that arrive in a burst are quarantined rather than deleted, so a mistake can be undone and an attempt to game the board stays on the record. The crowd number and the measured rank are kept apart in both directions.
Put the rank badge on your own site, unaltered, linking back to the listing it came from. It is served live, so it shows the position you hold today rather than the one you liked best — and it stops working if the listing comes down.
A leaderboard has three moving parts anybody outside it can reach: the votes, the proof that a listing belongs to someone, and the public numbers the engine measures. Everything on this page that counts as abuse is one of those three.
Don't manufacture a crowd
Vote rings, scripted votes, paid upvotes, clearing the cookie to vote again. The crowd axis is the one number here anybody can touch, which is exactly why it is the one we watch.
Don't claim what isn't yours
Forged proof, a domain you don't control, an account you don't run, a company you don't work for. Every claim that isn't machine-checkable is read by a person, and a bad one costs you the listing rather than just the claim.
Don't inflate the numbers we read
Bought stars, bought followers, bought downloads, a repo pumped by accounts that do nothing else. The engine reads the same public sources anyone can check, so this is the fastest way off a board and the hardest to come back from.
Votes get quarantined, a claim gets refused, a listing comes off the board, an account stops being able to submit or claim. Which of those applies depends on what happened and whether it looks deliberate. We don’t warn first when a board is actively being gamed, and we don’t restore a score to what it was before the votes we removed.
Read the pages, quote the numbers, cite the board. Machines are welcome at a sane rate, and llms.txt is the map. What is not welcome is hammering the site, or lifting the whole index to republish as a ranking of your own — the standings are the product.
Served as it is
Numbers go stale between collections, a source goes quiet, a page breaks. Nothing here is a guarantee of accuracy or of uptime, and a decision you make off the back of a rank is yours.
Links leave the site
Every listing points at somebody else’s product, repo or account. We measure them; we don’t run them, and what happens once you follow the link is between you and them.
The rules move as the site grows — paid slots, an API, boards that don’t exist yet. When the words change, the date below changes with them, and carrying on using the site is how the new version is accepted. What we keep about you is a separate page: the privacy policy.
Last changed 27 August 2026
