How a slot is won, held and lost. Everything here is enforced by the code that runs the boards, not by policy — where the two could drift, this page is the one that is wrong.
Boards sort by the standing bid, highest first. There is no algorithm, no votes, no editorial pass. The number beside a listing is what was last paid for it.
That order is then displaced by sinks: anyone can pay to push a listing one place down. So a rank is the position the bid bought, minus the places other people paid to take away. A listing that has been sunk carries a ▼ sunk badge saying how many — the rank never quietly stops meaning what was paid for it.
Ties keep the incumbent. An equal bid sorts behind the listing that got there first, so matching the leader never takes the spot — you have to beat it.
Rows that never carried a bid — Founding and Unclaimed — sort below paid rows at the same amount, because a paying customer should not be held off the top by a row nobody paid for.
A paying bidder chooses their own country at checkout, or chooses not to say. It is never derived from a domain's ending and never looked up from an address — the map shows what people said about themselves.
Rows nobody claimed are different, and are recorded to the same standard as the rows themselves: from public information, where the project or its maintainer states it plainly. Where that would be a guess — an international collective with no home, or an author who has not published where they are — it is left blank rather than filled in to make the map look busier.
A grey country means nobody there has bid. It does not mean zero.
Anyone can pay to push any listing one place down the board. It costs a fifth of that board's entry price, in that board's currency — sinking a euro listing costs euros, even from a board that charges dollars, because the euro board is the one whose order changes.
Nothing bought here moves a listing up. Bidding is the only way up, and it is the only way up on purpose. Sinks do not expire and cannot be bought off: outbidding lifts you by the places your money earns, and the sinks against you still apply on top of that.
Sinking somebody past the bottom of the board is money spent on nothing. The board ends where it ends.
A sink is not a bid. It never moves the "top bid" figure, never counts toward a board's volume, and never appears as though somebody paid for a slot — because nobody did.
Each board is priced for its own audience. The cheap boards are cheap because they are empty; they get more expensive by being bid up, not by being announced.
| Board | What it is for | Entry |
|---|---|---|
| Bidwall Europe | European SaaS, indie software and bootstrapped startups | €9 |
| Bidwall US | US startups, developer tools and AI products | $12 |
| Bidwall India | Indian SaaS, D2C brands and dev tools | ₹830 |
| Bidwall Asia | Southeast Asian fintech, marketplaces and AI startups | S$13 |
| Bidwall LATAM | Latin American startups, fintech and creator tools | $7 |
| Bidwall iOS | indie iOS apps, App Store launches and mobile SDKs | $6 |
| Bidwall macOS | native Mac apps, menu bar utilities and developer tooling | $6 |
| Bidwall Windows | Windows desktop software, game tooling and enterprise utilities | $4 |
| Bidwall Linux | Linux tools, self-hosted software and open source infrastructure | $3 |
| Bidwall Android | Android apps, Play Store launches and mobile SDKs | $4 |
| Bidwall Web | web apps, browser extensions and anything that ships as a URL | $3 |
| Bidwall AI | AI products, agents, models and the tooling around them | $15 |
| Bidwall Dev Tools | developer tools, APIs, CI and infrastructure | $8 |
| Bidwall Games | games, engines and the tooling that ships them | $2 |
| Bidwall Crypto | crypto, web3 infrastructure and onchain products | $9 |
| Bidwall Design | design tools, UI kits and creative software | $2 |
| Bidwall Open Source | open source projects looking for users, stars and maintainers | $1 |
Any slot can be taken by anyone, at any time, by paying more. The Outbid button on each row shows exactly what that costs: one unit above the standing bid, or the board's entry price if that is higher.
Bids are whole amounts in the board's own currency, from the entry price up to a per-transaction limit of 1,000,000 units. Each bid is charged in full — Bidwall does not bill the difference against what you paid before.
A listing holds its slot until it is outbid. Slots do not expire and are not rotated.
Bidding a URL that already holds a slot raises that slot rather than creating a second one, so a board can never show the same link twice. The new bid has to beat the standing one, or the form refuses it before you reach checkout.
The same link may hold a slot on more than one board. A board is the room you are paying to be seen in, and paying for one room is the product.
Products, sites and projects. Not:
A listing is an advertising placement. It is not an endorsement, and Bidwall does not vet the products it links to.
Founding — a real company that was invited and agreed to appear. It carries no bid figure, because inventing an amount for a company that never bid would misrepresent that company.
Unclaimed — a public project listed from public information. Nobody was asked and nobody paid. Bidding on it takes the row over rather than duplicating it, and a maintainer who would rather not appear can have theirs removed.
There is deliberately no placeholder badge. A board shows real projects or it shows nothing — the boards launched empty rather than seeded with invented companies.
Checkout is hosted by Stripe on Stripe's own page; card details never
touch this server. Charges appear on a statement as
BIDWALL.
Only a signature-verified webhook moves a board. The browser's return from Stripe awards nothing, so a slot appears once the charge actually confirms — usually within seconds.
Payments are final. A slot that has been paid for is not refunded when someone outbids it: being outbid is the product working, not a fault.
If a charge succeeds and no slot appears, get in touch with the Stripe receipt and it will be settled by hand.
Outbound links carry rel="nofollow noopener sponsored" and a
no-referrer policy: a slot buys traffic and attention, not search
ranking, and the destination is not told where the visitor came from.
The click count on a row is every visit that went out through that link. It is not deduplicated and is not audited — treat it as a relative signal between rows, not a billing metric.
An Unclaimed or Founding row is removed on request from anyone who speaks for the project — no justification needed.
A paid slot is removed on request from the person who paid for it. The payment is not refunded, for the same reason it is not refunded when outbid.
Bidwall may remove any listing that breaks the rules above, and does not refund it.
These rules can change. Changes apply going forward and never retroactively reprice or unseat a slot that was already paid for.