This product was not featured by Product Hunt yet. It will not be visible on their landing page and won't be ranked (cannot win product of the day regardless of upvotes).
i kept seeing pay-to-rank boards launch after outbid.lol did $21k in a day, and
they all inherited the same flaw.
someone pays $14,000 for #1 and it's theirs. permanently. everyone below knows
they'll never reach the top, so they buy a $5 slot nobody scrolls to and never
come back. the board is a graveyard with a rich guy on top.
so on burnboard the bids burn down. your balance drains every hour, and the
higher your rank, the faster it drains. #1 loses 4% an hour. #11 and below loses
0.75%.
the part i like: a 10x lead at the top is gone in six days without anyone paying
a cent. so a $50 listing can reach #1 by waiting. it's the only one of these
boards where the top spot is actually reachable.
the obvious objection is "why would i take #1 if it burns fastest?" you're not
buying the position, you're buying time at it. the burn rate is the hourly price
of that slot. #1 costs about 4x what #4 costs and gets a lot more than 4x the
clicks.
built solo over nine days. the hardest part wasn't the leaderboard, it was
realising that a flat decay rate keeps the order frozen exactly like a permanent
bid does. the rate had to scale with rank or the whole idea doesn't work.
happy to answer anything about the mechanic or the maths behind it.
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