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Leaderboards & Attention Markets
Products built to rank, rate and sell attention, and the founders who decided that who gets seen is a problem worth building a business around.
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About Leaderboards & Attention Markets
Every product in this category answers the same awkward question: who gets looked at, and who decides? Some founders build a public scoreboard. Others build a marketplace where eyeballs are priced, or a single patch of screen that anyone can claim. Behind each one there is usually a story about a frustration, a first experiment and a lesson about how people behave when they are being watched.
This page lists the products and businesses in Leaderboards & Attention Markets and its four subcategories, with filters to narrow the view. Read the founder profiles, not just the product blurbs. How a founder thinks about fairness, gaming and trust tells you more about a ranking tool than any feature list. Listings appear newest first by default, and you can sort by community votes instead. Votes can never be bought, so the order is not for sale.
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Leaderboards & Attention Markets: questions answered
- What belongs in Leaderboards & Attention Markets?
- Products whose core job is to order things by merit, score or popularity, or to buy, sell and display attention. If a visitor comes mainly to see who is on top, or to pay to be seen, it fits here. General analytics tools usually sit elsewhere.
- How do I choose between Leaderboards and Rankings?
- Pick Leaderboards when the product is a live, public scoreboard that people compete on. Pick Rankings when the product produces an ordered list or score, often compiled from data or reviews, and the list itself is the output rather than a contest.
- How do I get my product listed in this category?
- Go to /submit and paste your website address. An AI drafts the profile from your site, and you check and edit every field before anything goes live. You choose one main category, included free. A paid upgrade adds more categories if your product straddles several.
- How are listings ordered on this page?
- Newest first by default, so recent launches get seen. Visitors can switch to sorting by community votes. Votes can never be bought, which matters in a category about attention, because paying for position would defeat the point.
- What should I look for when comparing options here?
- Ask how the product handles gaming and fake activity, how transparent its scoring or pricing is, and who controls the rules. The founder's account of early mistakes is often the best clue to whether the system will stay trustworthy.