House rules

Rules

Big Bidder is a public auction board for products and profiles. There are no ads, no API keys, and no revenue share. You pay to stand above everyone else. Rank is the paddle this season. Every 30 days the floor clears.

How ranking works

• New lots start at $1. There is no house ceiling — pay whatever paddle you want. You raise one dollar at a time; each paid raise must add at least $1.
• Taking any rank, including #1, costs at least $1 more than the lot currently sitting there. Paying less than #1 still hangs you at whatever rank that paddle can take. Equal paddles keep the older lot higher.
• Rank is this season only. When the clock hits zero the live board wipes, $1 takes #1 again, and the closed season freezes in the hall of fame.
• Enter the same website or @handle again to raise that lot. You only pay the difference. Somebody else cannot steal your rank by paying only that difference.
• App Store, Play Store, GitHub, and X links are keyed by path, so different apps do not share a paddle. Query strings are stripped.

What you can list

• A product website, or an X @handle.
• Chat and invite links are not allowed — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal, and similar.
• Sexual content and adult platforms are not allowed.
• Affiliate and tracking parameters are stripped.
• Link shorteners are resolved to the destination. If the destination is still a shortener or a banned host, the paddle is refused.

After you pay

• Checkout is live Stripe. A completed payment is what claims the rank — not the success URL. A paddle started in one season cannot land on the next board.
• Logo, title, and description are pulled from the URL you entered. There is no extra form after checkout.
• Your lot is public. Clicks go to the URL or profile you submitted, without query parameters.
• No refunds except failed or duplicate charges.