How RepoRanker works
RepoRanker is a board of open-source GitHub repos, and the top of it is for sale. Submitting is free. Every row that has been bought sits above every row that has not, as paid placement: they are ordered by total dollars spent, starting at $3, and each one displays the exact amount that bought it. Slots nobody has bought yet are held by the repos with the most star growth since listing, marked as held, and taken by any payment. Rows below the paid block are ordered by a published formula over star growth and push recency.
The basics
Submit, buy a position, hold it
1. Submit your repo
Any active public GitHub repo is eligible. Add a short tagline. Your project goes live on the board immediately. No approval queue, no charge.
2. Buy a position
Placement starts at $3. Rank inside the paid block is total dollars spent and nothing else, so to pass the repo above you, spend more than its total. The price on every row is public.
3. Hold it until someone spends more
There is no subscription and no expiry. You keep the position until someone spends more than you, and then you move down a row rather than off the board.
Pricing
What a position costs
One payment, one number. There is nothing to subscribe to and nothing to renew.
Entry price
$3
cheapest payment that puts a repo on the ladder
Rank among paid rows
Total dollars spent
payments accumulate
To pass the row above you
Spend more than its total
How long it lasts
Until someone spends more
then you move down, never off
Subscription
None
Refunds
None
being outspent is not a refund event
Paid placement
Buying rank, in the open
The board is never empty. Any of the top 5 slots nobody has bought is held by the repo that gained the most stars since listing. Held rows paid nothing, are labelled as held, and lose the slot to any payment.
Payments accumulate. Spending again adds to your total, so defending a rank costs only the difference while taking it costs the whole stack.
There are no refunds. Being outspent is not a refund event: you keep the listing you paid for, at whatever rank your total now buys.
It buys position, nothing else. No effect on how the rows below the paid block are ordered, and no removal of a bad review.
The full ladder is public at /placements.
Board
How the rest of the board is ordered
Rows nobody has bought are ordered by star growth since listing plus a push-recency bonus. The exact terms, the tie-breaks, the sort modes and the time filters are all written out on the Board rules page.
Reviews
How reviews work
A review is a written assessment: what the project does, who it is for, and what could improve. Anyone signed in with GitHub can write one.
Reviews do not affect where a repo sits on the board. They are not a rating and they are not scored. The text is the whole point, and it lives on the repo page.
One review per repo per reviewer. You cannot review your own repos.