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Submit a website or an X @handle. There is no payment step and no approval queue: the listing is on the board by the time the button stops spinning, at the bottom, with a score of zero.

Every listing carries an up arrow and a down arrow. A visitor gets one vote per listing, and pressing the arrow you already chose takes it back. A listing's score is its upvotes minus its downvotes, and the board is ordered by that score, highest first. When two listings are tied, the one submitted earlier keeps the higher rank — nothing that arrives later can push past you on equal support.

Nothing expires. A listing holds its place for exactly as long as the votes say it should, which means a good one can sit at the top indefinitely and a bad one can be voted back down the page the same day.

When you submit, you can attach a code — a discount, a trial, an invite, whatever you want to hand out. The first 10 visitors who ask for it get it, one each, and after that the card says the codes are gone.

The code is never in the page. It is not in the board data, not in the HTML, and not visible to anyone who has not claimed one; it is handed out one at a time, on request, and only while slots remain. Claiming twice returns the same code and does not use up a second slot.

The leaderboard is free and always will be. The 20 billboards flanking it are the other market: ten a side, opening at $99.99, and sold by public bid — highest bid holds slot 1 until someone beats it. They are counted separately from the leaderboard, so a product can be voted up the board and hold a billboard at the same time. 1 are currently taken.

Billboards are the only thing on shoutbid that costs money, and buying one has no effect whatsoever on where a listing sits on the leaderboard. Votes do not care what you paid.

Nothing claims a billboard except a completed payment. Checkout is handled by Stripe; shoutbid never sees a card number. When Stripe confirms the payment the slot updates, usually within a couple of seconds. If a payment fails or is abandoned, nothing happens at all.

A raise only ever charges the difference. If you hold a billboard at $140 and want $160, you pay $20. Nobody else can take your slot by paying that $20; for them it is a $160 bid.

Clicks are counted on the way out: every link on the board is a redirect through shoutbid, so the count is a real click on a real listing, not an estimate. Automated traffic is filtered, and repeated clicks from the same visitor on the same listing only count once an hour.

Online is the number of people who have loaded the board in the last 90 seconds. Visitors counts first-time browsers since launch, one per browser, using a first-party cookie. No third-party trackers, no advertising pixels, and nothing is sold or shared.

Trending is clicks per hour over the last full hour plus the current one. It is a rolling rate, so a listing that just started working shows up quickly. It is separate from the ranking: trending measures what people are clicking, the board measures what people voted for.

There is nothing to upload. When you submit, shoutbid reads the page you gave it and takes its title, description and icon, the same metadata a link preview uses. If a site has no usable icon, the listing falls back to its initials. That snapshot is taken once, when the listing is created.

Every new listing and every billboard bought plays a shout, for everyone watching the board at that moment. It is on by default; the speaker in the header turns it off, and your browser remembers. Nothing plays until you have interacted with the page. Browsers require that, and so do we.