The rules
How Outthrone works
Every list is sorted by money. The rest:
- How is rank decided?
- By strength: the sum of your bids — each multiplied by any launch boost it was placed under, then decaying 1% a day, never more than $5 a day. Highest strength holds the throne. No reviews, no algorithm.
- How does a bid work?
- Enter an amount and your website — that’s the whole form. Stripe handles payment and your receipt; you set your display name and tagline right after checkout. Each bid stacks onto your claim and both today’s and last month’s dollars keep fighting for you.
- What is the launch boost?
- For the first ten days after launch, bids fight above their weight: +100% on day one, stepping down 10 points a day to zero. The boost is locked into each bid when you place it and kept forever — a $5 bid at +100% fights like $10 for as long as it lives.
- What happens when I’m outbid?
- You drop a place. Everything you staked keeps fighting; top up any time to take the spot back.
- Why do claims age?
- So no throne is safe forever. Decay is capped at $5 a day, so a defended throne stays strong — but an abandoned one becomes takeable.
- Can a bid fail?
- No. Bids add — they never overwrite. Pay while someone outbids you and your money still lands, still counts. There is nothing to refund.
- Are bids refundable?
- No. Placement is delivered the moment payment settles.
- What can I list?
- A product or business website, or a profile on a major platform (App Store, Play, GitHub, X — keyed by path, so different apps never share a claim). Not allowed: chat and invite links, link shorteners, and adult/NSFW content — you attest to this at checkout, and violations are removed without refund. Query strings are stripped: affiliate and tracking URLs will not work.
- What counts as a click?
- A real visit through your listing. Clicks pass through a short branded page, bots are filtered, and repeat clicks from the same visitor within an hour count once. The number is worth what you paid for it.
- What are the limits?
- Minimum $5, maximum $50,000 per bid. One-time charges, never a subscription.
- Is this an ad network?
- Simpler. Every listing is a paid placement, marked rel="sponsored". The ranking is the auction.
- Does anything ever reset?
- No. There are no seasons or wipes. Thrones you hold are yours until someone outbids you, and money you stake is never refunded. The only thing that changes over time is aging — every claim quietly loses 1% of its fighting strength a day (capped at $5), so an unattended lead slowly becomes beatable while a defended one stays strong.