Rules
Topbid is a public leaderboard with two ways to climb: bid high or get clicks. Every click on your listing adds $0.10 to your rank score. Share your link, get traffic, and climb for free — or pay to skip the line. And the board never sleeps: every bid decays 5% per day, so #1 today might be #5 tomorrow.
Two ways to rank
- Bids: Pay to claim your rank. Higher bid = higher position. Bids decay 5% per day, so you need to top up to stay on top.
- Clicks: Every click on your listing adds $0.10 to your effective score. 100 clicks = $10 rank boost. A $1 bid with 50 clicks beats a $5 bid with 0 clicks. Share your link and climb without spending more.
- Combined score: Your rank is based on effective bid + click boost. Bid high to start strong, then get clicks to stay there — or go pure clicks and never spend a dime.
Bid decay — the twist
- Every bid loses 5% of its value per day. A $100 bid is worth $95 after one day, $90 after two, $70 after a week, and so on. The decay is continuous — it ticks every second.
- Rankings are based on your effective bid (the decayed amount), not what you originally paid. As your bid decays, other listings can climb past you without spending more.
- To stay on top, top up your bid by entering the same site again with a higher amount. You only pay the difference between your new bid and your current stored bid — and topping up resets the decay clock.
- This means newcomers can climb cheaply — a listing that paid $100 a month ago has an effective bid of ~$21. You can overtake it for $22.
- The board is always shifting. Check back daily to see who's climbed, who's dropped, and who's about to be overtaken.
How ranking works
- Bids are whole US dollars, starting at $1. You outbid by $1 at a time.
- Paying less than #1 still puts you on the board at whatever rank that bid can take. Equal bids stay in the order they were placed — the older bid keeps the higher rank.
- Enter the same website or @handle again to raise that listing back to #1. The new bid must be at least $1 above the current top bid; you only pay the difference. Someone else cannot take your rank by paying that difference.
- App Store, Play Store, GitHub, and similar platform links are keyed by their path, so different apps don't share a bid. Tracking query strings are ignored.
- A leaderboard takeover costs 2× the current #1 and locks the first page for 3 hours. Only one takeover can be live at a time.
What you can list
- A product website, or a social media handle:
- @handle — X/Twitter
- ig@handle — Instagram
- yt@handle — YouTube
- tt@handle — TikTok
- Chat and invite links are not allowed — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal, and similar. The board is for products and profiles, not group chats.
- Links to sexual content are not allowed. If it is porn, NSFW, or an adult platform, it does not belong on the board.
- Query parameters are stripped from listing links. Affiliate, referral, and tracking URLs will not work.
- Link shorteners are not allowed. If you submit one, it is replaced by the URL it redirects to.
After you pay
- Payments are processed by Stripe. You pay the full bid amount for a new listing, or only the difference when raising an existing bid.
- Your listing goes live the moment Stripe confirms the payment. The webhook is the source of truth — no listing appears without a confirmed charge.
- Your listing is public. Clicks go to the URL or profile you submitted, without query parameters.
- Takeovers are a separate one-time charge of 2× the current #1 bid, processed the same way through Stripe.