Trust
How we keep this honest.
RepoRanker sells placement on a leaderboard. The thing that makes that fair is disclosure: what a spot costs, who paid for it, and what happens after. This page is that, in full.
The four rules we hold ourselves to
Every price is public
A paid row carries the exact amount that bought it, visible to every visitor, signed in or not. The whole ladder, including the repos sitting below the block, is listed on the placements page.
Paid rows say they are paid
A bought spot is labelled as bought on the leaderboard, on the repo page, and in the public API response. There is no unmarked promotion anywhere on this site.
Ownership is GitHub-verified
Sign-in is GitHub-only, and a repo can only be placed by the account that listed it. You cannot buy a spot for a project that is not yours.
Outbid means down, never off
No subscription, no renewal, no expiry date. A placement holds until someone spends more than you, and then you move down a row. Nothing to cancel, nothing that quietly runs out.
What you are buying
The top of the leaderboard is for sale, with no cap on how many rows it runs to. Entry is $3, and rank among bought rows is total dollars spent and nothing else. To pass the repo above you, spend more than it has. It is pay-to-rank on purpose, and it is how the site is funded.
Payment is a one-off. There is no plan and no invoice next month. Payments are also final: there are no refunds, including when someone passes you an hour later. The full ladder is public at /placements, with the amount next to every name.
Any of the top 5 slots nobody has bought yet is filled by the repo that has gained the most stars since it was listed here. Those rows are marked as held, they paid nothing, and any bid at all takes one. We fill them so the board is never a column of empty boxes, not to imply those repos bought anything.
Measured traffic and placement expectations
Our pricing page shows recorded page views for a dated 30-day period from first-party analytics. Page views include repeat visits and are not unique people, individual placement impressions or a forecast. Owners can see repo page views and measured GitHub clicks in their dashboard. Placement buys rank; it does not guarantee traffic, clicks or stars.
How the unsold rows are ordered
Rows nobody has bought are ordered by stars gained since the repo was listed, with recent pushes breaking ties. That is plumbing for the rest of the list, not a product. The exact query is written out on the ranking rules page.
Reviews
Any signed-in developer can review a repo, and reviews are published on the repo page. They pay nothing, they do not change what a placement costs, and they do not move the board. What is allowed in one, and what gets removed, is on the content policy page.
Something on the board look wrong?
An unmarked paid row, a listing by someone who does not own the repo, an abusive review: email abuse@reporanker.com with a link and a one-line description. We respond within 48 hours and act on confirmed cases within seven days.
Related reading: The placement ladder · Ranking rules · Content policy · FAQ