Every rule that decides what you see.

How ranking works

Boards are sorted by vote count, descending, with the more recent launch breaking a tie. That is the whole formula. There is no engagement score, no editorial weighting, no freshness decay and no multiplier that a person can request.

Daily, weekly and monthly boards use the same sort over a rolling window: the last 1, 7 and 30 days of launch dates. A tool can appear on all three at once. The top three positions on a board carry a seal; positions below three carry only the number.

What counts as a vote

• One vote per person per tool, keyed on the server from the request signature.
• Votes are not weighted by account age, by who cast them, or by anything else.
• Votes stay counted after the launch day ends. Boards are records, not countdowns.
• Coordinated voting is against the rules. Our stated policy: where we find it, the votes are removed, and where it is deliberate, the product is delisted.

How the queue is ordered

Twenty launches a day. A submission takes the next date with room on it, and its position within the day is the order in which submissions verified their domain. Both the date and the position are shown to you before you verify, and neither moves afterwards unless you ask us to move it.

Launching is free for everyone right now. A paid fast-track arrives later; when it does, it will change only your date — never your position within the day, your votes or your ranking — and its rules will be published here before the first one is sold.

Why some pages are noindex

A listing is only marked indexable when it carries an original description over a hundred words, a screenshot, a section, real internal links, and at least one piece of data that exists nowhere else — votes, pricing or launch history. Anything below that renders with a noindex tag.

This is deliberate and it costs us pages. A directory that publishes ten thousand thin entries is scaled content, it degrades the index for readers, and it eventually collapses in search. We would rather have fewer pages that are worth reading.

What money can and cannot buy

• Can: a founding sponsor slot in the rail, clearly labelled, with rel="sponsored nofollow" on the link. Launching itself is free for everyone right now; a paid fast-track (an earlier date, clearly marked) arrives later.
• Cannot: a position on any board, a vote, a category placement, a medal, removal of a competitor, or a change to another product’s listing.
• Never conditioned on anything: the dofollow link on your listing. Not on a badge, not on a link back, not on payment. Badges are optional and earned, and we do not crawl your site to check.

Delisting and corrections

Some listings are compiled from public information and are labelled as unclaimed. If one of them is yours, you can find it in the index and either claim it or ask for it to be removed. Removals are honoured within 48 hours, no argument and no retention offer.

If a number on this site is wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say what changed. The full policy is in the listing policy.