slotsbid: Let sponsors bid on your ad slots

Hey Product Hunt 👋 slotsbid started with a question I couldn't answer: what is a sponsor slot actually worth? Every creator I asked had picked their rate the same way copied it off someone with a similar-sized audience, then never touched it. Meanwhile the sponsors were fine with it, because the number was set by the person with the least information about how badly they wanted the slot. The fix seemed obvious once I said it out loud: don't set a price, run an auction. Two sponsors who both want the same week will find your ceiling faster than any rate card. How it works: you publish a slot, sponsors bid publicly or as a sealed offer and the top bid wins. Everyone files a card deposit and attaches their creative before bidding, so nothing runs without your approval. We're merchant of record, so the checkout, the card processing, and the sales-tax and VAT paperwork stay on our desk. 10% when a slot sells, nothing when it doesn't. The part that took longest: the empty-auction problem. A page reading "0 bids" is worse than no page at all it prices your audience at zero in public. So that state doesn't exist. Quiet slots sit in sealed-offer mode: the page shows "accepting offers · 3 received," amounts stay in the envelope, and the public ladder only opens once there's real competition worth showing. A slow week should look exclusive, not dead. I'd genuinely love to hear from creators on two things: what you charge today, and whether you think you'd clear more at auction. And if you've ever been the sponsor would you bid, or does that feel worse than a rate card? That answer decides a lot about where this goes next. Happy to answer anything in the thread today.