The rules

Rank is money, full stop

The board is sorted by current bid, high to low. Nothing else moves you up — not clicks, not age, not how good your pitch is. Just the number.

Anyone can claim any rank

Click "Claim this rank" on any listing and you can take its spot outright — no listing of your own required first. The price is always $1 more than the current holder's bid, you pay it with your own project's info, and the old listing (and everyone below it) simply slides down one place the moment yours goes live. If you already have a listing, you can also boost it yourself from its edit link, past whoever's sitting directly above it. Either way, existing listings never get a discount: moving up costs the full price for the rank you're taking, no matter what you already paid to get where you are.

#1 decays if it isn't defended

Every other rank holds its price forever. #1 doesn't: the price to take the crown drops $1.00 for every day its holder goes without bidding again, down to whatever #2 is paying (never lower — decay erodes an unchallenged lead, it doesn't hand the rank over for free). Placing any bid while you're #1 resets the clock.

No refunds — none, ever

Every dollar you put in is gone the moment it's in, whether you hold the top spot for a year or get outbid ten minutes later. There are no exceptions: not if a payment settles for a rank that's already gone by the time it lands, not if you double-pay by accident. BidRank isn't an escrow or a middleman — you're paying for a rank, not for a guaranteed outcome, and that payment is final the instant it clears.

No ads — except 3 sponsor slots

The board itself isn't for sale as ad space — the bids are the ad space. The one exception is a fixed row of 3 sponsor slots shown above the board: $150/month flat, first-come-first-served while a slot is open, not competed over by bidding. Cancel any time from your edit link; no refund for the month you're in.

No accounts

There's no login. The email link you get after paying is the only way back in to edit your listing, boost it, or mark it sold. Lose it and you can ask us to resend it to the email you submitted with — from the listing's edit page.