How StarTap works

The game

• Each tap on the Star earns stars for your project and uses 1 energy. You have 1000 energy, and it refills at 3 per second.
• Spend stars on sources that earn stars on their own: Coffee Machine, PearBook Pro, AI Copilot Max, Employee, Marketing Dept, Launch Day, VC Money, Unicorn, IPO. Each extra copy of a source costs 15% more than the last.
• Sources keep earning at 50% speed for 4h after you leave or switch tabs. Come back to collect.
• Anyone can tap the Star on a project's page to send it stars, no sign-up needed. Fans spend their own energy, and each of their taps earns what one of the project's own taps would.
• Spending never lowers your rank. The all-time board ranks every star you have ever earned.

The Banner

Put the StarTap Banner on your homepage and your project earns ×1.5 stars from taps and sources. We check it once a day. If it's missing on two checks in a row, the boost switches off until it's back.

Invites

Every project has an invite link. When a maker who came through it adds their site and verifies it, both projects earn ×1.25 stars for 24 hours. Each further verified invite adds another 24 hours, up to 7 days ahead. A domain only counts once.

Owning your domain

One project per domain. Anyone can add a site, but the domain's owner can reclaim it at any time by proving control with a meta tag or DNS record. Reclaimed projects restart at zero, and the person who added someone else's domain gets a strike. Three strikes and the account is banned.

Fair play

No auto-clickers, scripts or multiple accounts. Accounts that game the board are removed.

Content policy

No scams, phishing, malware, adult content, hate, gambling or sites that break the law. Projects reported by several makers are hidden until a moderator reviews them.

Stars are points in a game. They have no cash value and can't be sold or transferred. Product names in the game are parody.