Glossary
Short definitions for search & answer engines.
- Placement
- A position on the RepoRanker board, bought outright. Placement starts at $3 and rank is total dollars spent, nothing else. A placement is not a subscription: it is one payment, it does not expire, and it is not refunded.
- Bid
- A payment that buys a placement or moves an existing one up. Bids accumulate, so a repo's rank is the sum of everything it has spent and moving up costs only the difference. The smallest first bid is $3; the smallest top-up after that is $1.
- Price to beat
- What it costs to rank above a given row: $1 more than that row's total spend, or $3 when nothing is above it. Every row on the board shows its own price to beat, so you know the number before you decide.
- Outbid
- What happens when another repo's total spend passes yours. You lose the position, not the listing. Your repo moves down to whatever rank your own total still buys and stays there permanently.
- The ladder
- The full, uncapped list of every repo that has bought placement, ranked by spend, at reporanker.com/placements. It is also the top of the main board: every bought row ranks above every unbought one, in the same order.
- Held spot
- A ladder slot nobody has bought yet, occupied by whichever repo has gained the most stars since it was listed here. A held spot costs its holder nothing, is labelled as held rather than paid, and is taken by any bid at the $3 floor. It exists so the board is never a row of empty boxes.
- Top / New / Stars / Momentum
- The four sort keys on the board. Top is the default: bought placements fill the first rows, and the rows below them are ordered by stars gained since listing and how recently the repo was pushed. New orders by when a repo was added to RepoRanker. Stars orders by current GitHub star count. Momentum orders by star growth over the selected time window.
- Review
- Written feedback left on a repo page by a signed-in GitHub user who does not own the repo. Reviews are text on the page: they do not pay anything, they do not unlock anything, and they do not affect where a repo sits on the board.
- GitHub-verified
- Everyone on RepoRanker signs in with GitHub OAuth. That ties an account to a real, public GitHub profile and keeps disposable identities off the site.