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Reaches ~10,000 a day · 16 positions · from $10

Buy a spot. Rank is your bid.

Two boards, one price each. $10 holds a position for today; $87 holds one for thirty days. Buying puts you at number one and moves everyone else down a place. No bidding, no sealed auction, no “contact us for rates”.

The flip side, said here rather than buried in the FAQ: your position decays as other people buy. The next buyer takes number one from you, and past eight you move to page two. What a spot buys is human attention and counted clicks — never search rankings.

How this page works. Slots marked Sponsored are paid placements. Everything else rotates for free. Paid or free, every outbound link here is tagged rel="sponsored nofollow" and passes through a redirect, so a placement buys human visibility and nothing else — read what we do and don't sell.

The boards

Live for 2026-11-10 (UTC). The day board resets at midnight; month spots carry over. Newest purchase sits at #1; unsold positions show a site we picked ourselves until somebody buys them.

Full pricing

Today

Holds a position on today's board until 00:00 UTC, then the board resets.

0 sold · $10 takes #1

  1. 1

    Hugging FaceOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $10
  2. 2

    PerplexityOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $10
  3. 3

    CursorOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $10
  4. 4

    VercelOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $10
  5. 5

    SupabaseOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $10
  6. 6

    BunOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $10
  7. 7

    ResendOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $10
  8. 8

    LinearOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $10

This month

Holds a position for 30 days. Survives the daily reset.

0 sold · $87 takes #1

  1. 1

    Hugging FaceOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $87
  2. 2

    PerplexityOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $87
  3. 3

    CursorOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $87
  4. 4

    VercelOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $87
  5. 5

    SupabaseOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $87
  6. 6

    BunOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $87
  7. 7

    ResendOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $87
  8. 8

    LinearOur pick

    This position is unsold — buy it and you replace this at #1.

    $87

Every position is open. Nothing has sold yet, so the sites shown in the open positions are our own picks, not advertisers — they are labelled as such. We are not going to dress a young directory up as scarcity. The upside of being early is that nobody is going to bump you off #1 for a while. Take the first spot for $10.

Also in rotation today

The 12 slots that are never sold, shuffled by a seed derived from the date — identical for every visitor, and verifiable.

Free and editorial listings

Tailwind CSS

tailwindcss.com

Utility-first CSS, and documentation people read for the CSS itself.

Our pickDesign & creative

Raycast

raycast.com

A Mac launcher that replaced Spotlight for a lot of people.

Our pickProductivity

Notion

notion.com

Documents and databases in the same editor.

Our pickSaaS & business

Astro

astro.build

A site framework that ships no JavaScript unless you ask for it.

Our pickOpen source

Linear

linear.app

Issue tracking that chose speed over configurability.

Our pickSaaS & business

Figma

figma.com

Collaborative interface design in the browser.

Our pickDesign & creative

Cursor

cursor.com

A code editor built around an AI pair, forked from VS Code.

Our pickAI tools

Excalidraw

excalidraw.com

A hand-drawn-feeling whiteboard that needs no account.

Our pickDesign & creative

Perplexity

perplexity.ai

An answer engine that cites the pages it drew from.

Our pickAI tools

Resend

resend.com

Transactional email with a React component API.

Our pickDeveloper tools

MDN Web Docs

developer.mozilla.org

The reference for how the web platform actually behaves.

Our pickLearning & education

Supabase

supabase.com

Postgres with auth, storage and realtime bolted on.

Our pickDeveloper tools

Vercel

vercel.com

Deploys for frontend frameworks, and the company behind Next.js.

Our pickDeveloper tools

Cookie-free web analytics you can self-host.

Our pickMarketing & growth

Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

The link aggregator much of this industry reads daily.

Our pickCommunities

Upstash

upstash.com

Serverless Redis and Kafka, billed per request.

Our pickData & APIs

Hugging Face

huggingface.co

Model hosting and the datasets library most open ML work passes through.

Our pickAI tools

Bun

bun.sh

A JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner and package manager in one binary.

Our pickDeveloper tools

Ahrefs

ahrefs.com

Backlink and keyword data, with a free tier for sites you own.

Our pickMarketing & growth

Obsidian

obsidian.md

Markdown notes stored as plain files on your own disk.

Our pickProductivity

The numbers we actually have

Counted, not estimated. Where we have no data it says so. If you are comparing directories, ask the other ones for the same and see what comes back.

Sites listed

20

Submissions and our own picks. Nothing scraped.

Paid positions

16

8 a page on each board. Newest purchase first.

Clicks, today's slate

No clicks recorded yet for today's listings.

De-duplicated per visitor per UTC day.

Cost of #1 today, USD

10

One fixed price. Buying takes the top position immediately.

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What a spot is, and what it is not

It is a ranked position on a page people read, a label that says Sponsored, and a click counter that reports honestly how many went through to your site. If the number is small, you will see that it is small.

It is not a backlink in the SEO sense. We cannot sell you one and stay inside Google's policies, so we don't. Google's spam policies name buying or selling links for ranking purposes as link spam, and the penalty would land on this site — the one you are hoping to borrow visibility from. A directory that sells you “do-follow backlinks” is either lying to you or burning itself down, and in both cases the link stops being worth anything.

That is the whole pitch, and it is deliberately unexciting: a real listing, a visible price, real numbers and a clear label. If you want the other thing, we are the wrong directory.

Related

Frequently asked questions

How does the bidding work?

Whoever bought most recently is number one. Each board shows 8 positions a page, newest purchase first, and buying moves every spot below you down one place. There is no bidding and no sealed auction: one price per board, published, and the order is a fact you can check against the purchase times rather than something we decide.

Why are day and month on separate boards?

Because otherwise they would not be a contest. A $87 month spot would outrank every $10 day spot permanently, the day board would be pointless to enter, and the daily price would be a fiction. Two boards, ranked separately, rendered separately.

Do the links here help my search rankings?

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Every outbound link on this directory — paid, free and editorial alike — carries rel="sponsored nofollow" and goes through a redirect that search engines are told not to follow. Paid links that pass ranking signals are link spam under Google's own policies, and the site that gets penalised would be ours. What a spot buys is human attention: people who read this directory and click through.

What does the free tier actually get me?

A permanent listing page of your own, a place in the rotation for the 12 unsold slots on this page, inclusion in your category, and a real click counter you can check. It costs nothing, it does not expire, and a person reviews every submission before it appears.

What are the listings marked 'Our pick'?

Sites we chose and wrote up ourselves. Nobody paid for them and nobody was asked, which is exactly why they say so on every card rather than blending in with the paid ones. They exist so the directory is worth reading on day one instead of being an empty page with a price list. Any of them can be claimed by its owner, free and without proof, or removed on request — same as any other listing.

How are clicks counted?

Once per visitor per UTC day, identified by a salted hash of IP and user agent that is never stored raw. Clicking your own listing five times in an afternoon counts once. The numbers start at zero and nothing is estimated or simulated — a listing with no clicks says so rather than showing a figure.

Can I pay by card?

Not yet. Taking a spot sends us a request; we reply with an invoice and the dates it would run, and the spot goes live once it is settled. You can walk away before then at no cost. The honest reason for the manual step: the card platforms built for software products (Polar, Paddle) explicitly prohibit payments connected to advertising and sponsorship, and Stripe does not operate in the country this site is run from.