Launching today
Money vs Many
Money and votes buy the stage — only people move the rope.
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Money and votes buy the stage — only people move the rope.
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Pay-to-rank sites sell you the win. Here money only buys the stage. Your bid is a pledge — the number that ranks you is what you say you will put into this if you win. 70 characters, never editable. Win, and you get 90 days to show what you did with it. We never verify it. The public reads your link and judges. Two doors. From $10 — a one-off 10% of your bid, which is never collected. Or $25 to stand: same pledge, no number, your own people vote you up. The board is empty. It locks Saturday.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Today two products can finally pick a fight, and I get to find out what happens.
I'm Chandan. I built this with my technical partner Claude — great at writing code and fixing things, shit at product design.
Here is the whole thing in one line. Every Saturday two products go into an arena. Over the next 24 hours anyone can pull a rope toward the one they want. Whichever side the rope is on when the bell rings, wins.
Pay-to-rank sites sell you the visibility. I wanted a place where money buys attention and nothing else.
The part that matters most to me is the pledge. Your bid is not just a ranking number — it is what you are publicly saying you will put into this. if you win. 70 characters. It can never be edited, not by you, not by me, not on
request.
Win, and you get 90 days to show what you actually did with it. We never verify it and never chase you. Your link goes on your product's permanent page and the public judges it themselves. So does the silence, if you show nothing.
That is why this is not just pay-to-rank. Anyone can buy the stage. Nobody can buy the result. And nobody can quietly rewrite what they promised to get there.
Two doors onto the board.
The board is the queue — every product waiting for a Saturday, ranked in order. There are two ways onto it.
The first costs $10. That is the whole fee, paid once — 10% of your bid.
Your bid itself is never collected. $100 is just the floor you rank from, and it is also your pledge: the number you are promising to put into the work. You never hand that money over.
The second door is $25. You go on a ballot instead of the money list, and your own people vote you up it. Same pledge, no number on it.
Money if you have it. A crowd if you don't.
Your product fights at home. Its arena is its own country, and every arena strikes at 9 PM on Saturday in that country's own time. Sixty-six countries are already wired for it. A country's clock starts by itself the moment two products
stand in it, and its first bell is the next Saturday at 9 PM where you are — a new arena always gets a day's notice, so if you cut it fine on a Saturday you get the one after.
The fight runs 24 hours. The rope itself only opens for the last three, and that is on purpose — one window, everyone at once, or there is no fight to watch. You take a pass and get a hundred pulls to spend across the two sides however you like. Voting is the other door and has its own rule: one vote a day, and one vote per product ever. Both free, forever.
Honest state of it: every board is empty today and nobody has fought yet. Which makes this the cheapest it will ever be. The first product into any country's Arena walks in uncontested — no board to climb, nobody to outbid, $100 at the floor and a wall with your name on it. The second one starts that country's clock. Be first in yours.
Every bid, vote and pull lands on a public append-only ledger with a verifier you download and run yourself — three commands, it is on the site. Ask me anything, including the awkward ones.
Two things.
The product gets visibility. That is what you get and that is all you get. Don't read anything else into it.
And it is an experiment. We will know how money and people behave when they are both after the same thing.
Everything else — the fight, the rope, the two doors — exists to make that visibility worth looking at. Nobody reads a directory. People watch a fight.
The pledge is not one of them. It is there to hold you to the number you named.
That is the whole design. Read nothing more into it.