About

How it works

1. 1Paste a GitHub or GitLab URL, pick a category, choose an amount, and pay. There is no account and no review queue — the listing appears the moment the payment settles.
2. 2Your bid decides your position. Right now $6 takes #1 outright, and a smaller bid still puts you on the board wherever that amount lands. New listings start at $5.
3. 3Bids are cumulative. Paying again adds to a project's total rather than replacing it, so a position is built up over time and never reset.
4. 4Anyone can bid on any project, including one they have nothing to do with.

The rules, plainly

Rank is bought, not earned

Position reflects money and nothing else. It is not a review, a recommendation, or a measure of quality.

Money goes to the operator

Listed projects and their maintainers receive nothing. This is placement, not sponsorship.

Bids are permanent and non-refundable

Adding money to one project never removes or reduces another's total. The one exception is a payment that settles against a listing that has been taken down — that is refunded, because it bought something undeliverable.

The rank is decided when the payment settles

Not when it is quoted. Money moves through a third party and the board can shift in between, so the quote is recorded next to the outcome and the project page shows both whenever they differ.

Open source only

Listings need a public repository with a recognised OSI licence. Source-available licences are rejected.

Nothing is seeded

Totals, click counts and visitor numbers are real. If a counter reads zero, it is zero.

Clicks, counted honestly

Outbound links are counted once per visitor per day. Known bots, prefetchers and link previewers are redirected but never counted, and raw IP addresses are never stored — only a salted digest. The number undercounts. That is the correct direction to be wrong in.

Maintainers

There is no claim process, and there is nothing to claim. Anyone can bid on any project, so a listing does not belong to whoever paid for it any more than it belongs to the people who wrote the code. If you maintain a listed project and want it off the board, email support@unchainedlabs.dev and it comes off.