Transparent Pricing

Listing is free.
Here is what isn't.

Listing is free. We make money on Founder Pro and on one clearly badged sponsor slot per feed - never on rank. Rank recomputes every day off live traffic and founder answers, and nothing else.

Free

Listing

Free

No card, no review queue, no cap. An account, and you are live.

Your billboard in the main and category feeds
Public AMA questions - anyone can ask, anyone can read
Instant live activation and engagement rank scoring
A dofollow link to your site while our badge is live on it - see below

List your billboard (free)

Founder Pro

$20 / month

or $190 / year billed yearly

Permanent dofollow link to your site - no badge, no weekly check, no conditions
Verified-maker badge on every AMA reply, so answers read as the founder's
Product stories and a changelog page - each one an extra indexable page linking to your site
Priority placement in the Monday digest
Full traffic analytics: referrers, CTR trend, geo distribution, CSV export

Get Founder Pro $20 / month

Slot rental

Global Sponsor Slot (24h)

$24 / 24h slot

Guaranteed fixed placement at position 4 on the global home feed
🎲 Bonus: Appears in random billboard order across the Random Discovery feed
Guaranteed 24 hours of maximum builder & visitor visibility
Booked via calendar availability, first come first served
Always clearly badged “Sponsored”

View global calendar ($24)

Slot rental

Category Sponsor Slot (24h)

$24 / 24h slot

Position 3 pinned in your targeted category feed
🎲 Bonus: Featured across Random Discovery feed rotations for high-intent builders
Target founders and users browsing specific industry niches
Flat $24 per 24-hour slot, first come first served
Always clearly badged “Sponsored”

Pick a category ($24)

The link policy, in full

Founder Pro is always dofollow. No badge, no conditions, no re-checks.
Free listings are dofollow while our badge is live on your site. We check once a week. Remove the badge and the link becomes nofollow after two consecutive checks miss it - one outage never costs you the link. Get your badge.
Only the listing page passes authority. The click-out redirect is nofollow and noindex whatever your plan is. That is deliberate: a redirect that passed link equity would make the policy above meaningless.

How you're charged - no surprises

Prices are in USD and shown before tax. The list price is the base - nothing is padded in.
Taxes (GST/VAT) are added on top at checkout, based on your country - so your total is the price plus your local tax.
Pay in your currency. You can switch the display/payment currency at checkout; it's the same amount converted at the live rate, not a different price.
Regional pricing. In some countries checkout may show a locally adjusted price (purchasing-power pricing) so the cost is fair worldwide. Taxes are then applied to that local price.
Sponsor slots are demand-priced. A slot that sells out for a full week gets a small price step-up the next week, and eases back toward the $24 floor otherwise. Payments are handled securely by Dodo Payments.

The mechanism

How rank actually works.

The score is a weighted composite, not a vote count: unique visitors, dwell time, how spread out your traffic is geographically, and - weighted hardest - how often and how fast you answer questions. Raw impressions barely move it, which is the point.

Ranking is dynamic and relative to your own category. Active founder responses earn verified badges and an organic algorithm boost. Sit on unanswered questions past 48 hours and your rank quietly decays.

Scores are recalculated every 24 hours over a rolling 7-day engagement window - never reset, always earned.

Unique visitorsDwell timeGeo spreadReply rate ×900

Still unsure? The FAQ answers the link and badge questions in plain language, or just put something up and watch the counter move.