A Paid Product Directory That Admits It

I could not afford first place, so I built somewhere you can climb to it.

Outbidding for visibility became a thing almost overnight. Projects paying, publicly, to be seen ahead of each other - and everybody watching it happen.

It was not within my budget. I could not get my own projects anywhere near the top of a board like that, and for a while that was simply the end of it.

Then late one evening the idea came: keep what was good about it, and fix the part that shut me out. Not a different model - the same one, with a second way up.

I gave it about ten minutes of thought. Then I sat down and built until it got light, and a week later the wall was live - the one you are reading this on.

Here it is. Share your link, and every new person who reaches the wall through it is a point that lifts you. If one of them puts up a project of their own, that is 5 - a bigger jump again.

So we pull each other up. You send people in, some of them stay and list something, and everyone involved climbs a little. That is the version of this that works for the rest of us - the ones who do not have $20,000 to spend on first place.

A small budget should not mean a small chance.

1,253

visitors to the site

products listed

listed today

$150

to take #1 right now

points bought

308

visitors sent to climbs

paid signups delivered

297

outbound clicks

Why a second currency

Paid boards work. Someone pays for a position, gets seen, and everybody understands the deal - there is nothing wrong with it. It just answers a single question: who has the largest budget this month.

That leaves out almost everyone. Most good projects are built by people who cannot put five figures behind a placement, and a board they have no realistic chance on is not a board they belong on.

So this one keeps the money and adds a second way in. Effort counts too - and effort is something a small project has more of than a big one. Nobody has to outspend anybody to reach the top of this wall; they have to be worth sharing.

How a place is won

1
Take a place for $10
A website or an X profile goes on the wall with 10 permanent base points. Every dollar above the minimum is one more permanent point, so the entry and the rank are the same decision.
2
Earn the rest by sending real people
Every climb gets a share link. A new person who arrives through it is worth +1, and if one of them buys a place of their own that is +5. Keeping the outclimbed badge on your own site adds +30 bonus points, held for as long as it stays. Nobody has to spend a second dollar to climb.
3
Defend it, or drift down
Earned points hold full value for 30 days - 6 months for a referred signup - and then they are gone. Not faded. Gone. Standing still costs you rank.