Observed arrival · 2026-08-22
Bid Your App Turns App Promotion Into a Tiny Auction
A live leaderboard lets App Store developers pay to move their apps toward the top, with bids accumulating in whole-dollar increments.
○Open
⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
Why it surfaced
“Money is the algorithm” is an unusually candid premise for an app-discovery site. The board is already populated with 12 named apps—from a Pokémon card scanner to a local AI server—with the top position currently priced at $10, making this both a promotion mechanism and a small public experiment in paid attention.
A live leaderboard lets App Store developers pay to move their apps toward the top, with bids accumulating in whole-dollar increments.
Observed signals
Read the marks
Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
○OpenPublic substance visible
$PaidCommerce or pricing visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
ƒJavaScriptBrowser-side code central
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