Ranking Rules

How upvotes are counted and how each week’s rankings are decided.

Launch weeks

• A launch week runs Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59 UTC
• Each product is ranked only against products in the same MRR stage that launched the same week
• Only upvotes cast during the launch week count towards that week’s ranking

Who can upvote

• You need to be signed in, and you get one upvote per product. You can take it back while the week is live
• You need to have opened the product’s website from Spotlighted first, so upvotes come from people who had a look. On a board, the first press of the upvote button opens the website; press it again to upvote
• Makers can’t upvote their own products
• One account can cast up to 20 upvotes a minute, and upvotes from one network are rate limited too

Vote weight

Upvotes are weighted by the age of the voter’s account when the vote is cast. The count you see is the number of upvotes; the ranking uses their weights.

Hidden counts on the first day

• For the first 24 hours of each launch week (until Tuesday 00:00 UTC), that week’s upvote counts and ranks are hidden and its board is shown in random order
• Every launch gets a fair first look whatever its makers’ time zone, and early votes can’t snowball
• Upvotes cast on the first day still count. From Tuesday the counts show and the board is ranked

Ranking and winners

• Products rank by score: the sum of their upvotes’ weights during the launch week
• Ties go to the product with more upvotes, counted without weights, then to the one approved first
• The top 3 in each MRR stage each week get a winner badge, once the week has ended
• Sponsored rows are labelled “Sponsored” and sit outside the ranking

Fair play

• Don’t vote from several accounts, swap votes in groups or pay for votes
• We may remove votes or listings that break these rules. The wider rules are in the Community Guidelines