Roberto

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final_v2_FINAL_really_final.pdf

Hi Product Hunt,
I'm Roberto, from Wales originally from Rome.
For the last few months I've been building something that started as a very small idea and somehow evolved into a much bigger project than I ever expected.
The original frustration was simple.
I became increasingly tired of seeing the internet flooded with fake reviews, purchased engagement, botted comments, fake followers and ranking systems that nobody can really understand.
Today it's becoming harder and harder to know whether a business, creator, product or service is genuinely appreciated by people or simply has a larger marketing budget.
At the same time, small businesses often struggle to compete because visibility on most platforms is controlled by black box algorithms that nobody outside the company understands.
So I started asking myself a simple question:
What if visibility itself became a transparent marketplace governed by public mathematical rules instead of hidden algorithms?
That idea eventually became Uppale.
What is a Slot:
A Slot is essentially a digital business card.
Users can create a fully customizable card containing:
Title, Description, Photos, Website links, Social media links, Discount vouchers, Promotional information
The card can represent almost anything: A local restaurant, A startup, A freelancer, A YouTube channel, An online store, A software product, A personal project
The goal is simple: Get visibility.
The part that makes Uppale different
Every Slot has a value.
That value determines its ranking position inside a public leaderboard.
Unlike traditional advertising platforms, nobody owns a position forever.
Every Slot continuously loses value through a public mathematical decay mechanism.
Currently the decay rate is 0.4% per hour.
This means visibility is always fluid.
No hidden ranking factors.
No recommendation algorithms.
No engagement farming.
No mysterious score that only the platform understands.
Everything is visible and predictable.
Refuels and Boosts:
Slot owners can increase their own Slot value through Refuels.
However, moving up the leaderboard is not simply a matter of adding money.
To take over a higher position, a Slot must exceed the effective value of the Slot directly above it by at least the platform's Minimum Jump Rate.
For example, if Position #5 has an effective value of 100 and the Minimum Jump Rate is 5%, a competitor must reach at least 105 to claim that position.
This creates a transparent and predictable ranking system where every movement follows the same public rules.
Other users can support Slots they like through Boosts.
Boosts work differently from Refuels.
A Boost can start from as little as 0.50 and can be made by any supporter who wants to help a Slot gain visibility.
When somebody Boosts a Slot:
The Slot immediately gains ranking power
The owner receives real earnings (95% of the boost amount)
The Slot's decay timer resets
The community actively influences visibility
This means visibility is not controlled only by the Slot owner. Communities can actively help businesses, creators and projects climb the leaderboard through collective support.
A business can spend nothing after creating its Slot and still climb the leaderboard if enough supporters decide to Boost it.
This is the concept I call community powered visibility, and it's one of the things I find most interesting about how Uppale works.
Why I built it:
As an engineer I love systems where the rules are visible.
Most social platforms operate as black boxes.
Creators and businesses spend money without truly understanding why one post succeeds while another disappears.
I wanted to experiment with the opposite approach.
What happens when every rule is public?
What happens when visibility behaves more like a live market?
What happens when communities can directly support what they want to see?
I genuinely don't know whether this idea is brilliant, terrible, or somewhere in between.
That's exactly why I'm posting here.
Current testing phase:
The platform is currently in testing.
To make experimentation easier, every newly registered user currently receives:
10 in the UK
10 in Europe
$10 in the US
The credit can be used to create Slots, test Refuels and try the Boost system.
No purchase is required to explore the mechanics.
If you decide to have a look, I have some test slots running at this category:
https://uppale.com/en/c/restaura...
Most other categories are still empty because I'm focusing testing efforts there first.
You can also read how the platform works here:
https://uppale.com/en/how-it-works
and the project background here:
https://uppale.com/en/about
I'd love your thoughts
1. Would you trust a visibility system based on transparent mathematical rules more than traditional advertising algorithms?
2. Does the idea of visibility constantly decaying make sense, or does it feel too game-like?
3. If you owned a business, startup, YouTube channel or side project, would you use something like this?
4. What's the biggest flaw or risk you immediately see?
I'm genuinely looking for honest criticism and feedback before launch.
Thanks for reading.

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