Rules

This is a public leaderboard for European startups. No ads, no algorithm, no revenue share. You pay to stand above everyone else. Rank is the bid, and nothing else.

How ranking works

Bids are whole euros, €2 minimum, €1 at a time.
The largest bid is #1. Bidding under the top still puts you on the board, at whatever rank that bid buys.
Equal bids keep the order they were placed. The older bid ranks higher.
Enter the same link or @handle again to raise it back to #1. A raise only goes to the top: the new total must clear the current top by €1, and you pay only the difference between that total and what you have already paid. Nobody else gets your rank for that difference — a new listing pays its bid in full, and an existing one pays its own way up from its own total.
A takeover costs 2× the current #1 and holds the first page for 3 hours. One runs at a time.

What counts as one listing

One thing, one listing, one running total. A link is identified by its domain, and on platforms that host many things, by the part of the path that names yours — app stores, code hosts, and profile platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Medium and Substack. Two apps, two repos or two profiles never share a bid.

Query strings are dropped, so tracking and affiliate parameters do not survive. Two exceptions: a Play Store link keeps its id and a VS Code Marketplace link keeps its itemName, because on those hosts the query is the whole identity.
An App Store or Chrome Web Store link has to carry the store's own id. A localised slug alone is refused, because it changes by country and would split one app across listings.
On profile platforms, paste the profile or channel page, not a single post. A youtube.com/watch or medium.com/p/… link is refused, and says so.
Link shorteners are refused. Checkout resolves them first; anything still shortened after that is turned away, so paste the destination.
For X, paste the @handle or the profile URL. Either one lands on the same listing.

What you can list

A product website or an X profile, from a company based in Europe. Nothing verifies that — it is an honour system. Listings that are not European are removed and refunded.
No chat or invite links: Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal, Slack invites. The board is for products and profiles, not group chats, and invite links rot within days.
No adult sites.

After you pay

Your listing is public, and a completed payment is what claims the rank.
Clicks go straight to the URL or profile you submitted.
Payment is handled by Polar as merchant of record, so your invoice and VAT come from them.