SpotWar is a 24×24 town of advertising lots. You stake any amount on a startup's URL, and the stake never expires and never gets refunded just for losing — it's added to a permanent, cumulative total for that lot. The biggest total stake holds the 3D building and the map pin. Ranks 2 and 3 get sidewalk signs. Everyone else keeps a text row on the board, forever. Get outranked and you don't lose your spot on the board — you just lose the building, until you stake again.
Hey hunters — maker here.
I kept seeing the same thing on every "advertise here" page: a spot you rent for a month, that resets, that you re-buy from zero. So I built the opposite. SpotWar has no rounds and no expiry — every payment you make is permanent. Get outbid and your money didn't vanish, it's still sitting on the board, still ranked, still yours to add to.
A few things I'd love feedback on: does the "never lose it" framing land in the first ten seconds? Is staking on a guest checkout (no account needed) too frictionless, or exactly frictionless enough? And — your first lot is free if you sign in, so genuinely, go take one before someone builds next to you.
Happy to answer anything about the stack, the ranking math, or why it's called a war.