You can buy attention here. You cannot buy a rank.
Getting listed costs nothing and always will — a directory you have to pay into is not a directory. What is for sale is a clearly labelled slot at the top of a board that already has everyone on it.
Listing
Everything a trader needs to find you. This is the product; the paid tiers only buy attention on top of it.
- Reviewed by a person, usually within a week
- A full listing page with venues, categories, platforms and price
- Appears in every filter combination you genuinely match
- Cross-linked from every venue, category and guide page it belongs to
- Your links, your maker handle, your deal code
Boost
MOST TAKENA labelled featured slot on the board and at the head of your categories, for the week you are shipping something.
- A featured slot at the head of the catalogue
- Pinned above the grid on every category and venue page you belong to
- The BOOSTED ribbon and accent outline, everywhere you appear
- Excluded from the catalogue's own ordering for the whole run
- Card or crypto, no account needed
Launch
For a real launch: double the run, a written listing, and a slot in the deals rail if you bring a code.
- Everything in Boost, for ten days instead of five
- A written listing — overview, key features, who it is for
- A slot on the deals page if you have a code that passes a checkout test
- One post from the ApexDegen account
- Priority review, usually inside 48 hours
Announcement bar
The strip above the header, on every page. One advertiser at a time, so it is never a carousel.
Card or crypto, one-time, no subscription. Payment is not wired up in this build — the buttons take you to the submission form.
What the money never buys
This list is the reason the board is worth advertising on. If any of it stopped being true, the placement would stop being worth anything.
A rank
A boosted listing is labelled wherever it appears and is excluded from any ordering the catalogue applies. Placement buys attention, never position.
A better description
What a listing says is what its sources published, corrected against the product's own site. Paying does not buy a longer write-up or a friendlier one.
The Verified mark
That comes from a person opening the tool and checking it works. It is not on the price list.
A rival's place
Nobody can pay to have another listing demoted, buried or removed.
A liveness check
Whether your site answered when we last probed it is a fact about your site. Paying does not change what the check found.
Silence about it
Every paid placement carries a label wherever it appears. If you would rather it were not obvious, this is not the right board.
Amber outline, BOOSTED ribbon, no number
A boosted card carries an accent-coloured outline and a BOOSTED ribbon, and the outline and the ribbon travel with it into every grid, rail and category page. The rank chip that a ranked card carries is absent, because a boosted listing does not hold a position.
Traders learn that pattern in about four seconds. That is the point: the label is what makes the slot honest, and honesty is what keeps the board worth appearing on.
Not on sale yet. Placement goes on sale when the weekly race opens. Nothing on the board is currently boosted, so there is no live example to show you — and a mocked-up one would be the wrong thing on a page about labelling.
Why is the listing free?
A directory that charges for entry stops being a directory — it becomes a list of whoever paid, and traders work that out fast. The catalogue has to be complete to be worth reading, so listings are free and the money comes from attention on top of a complete catalogue.
What happens when a boost ends?
The listing goes back to exactly where the catalogue's own ordering puts it. Nothing is removed and nothing is downgraded — the ribbon comes off and it rejoins the grid.
Can I boost a tool I did not build?
No. Boosts are bought by the maker or someone they have authorised, because the slot comes with a claim on the listing.
Do you take a cut of the deal codes?
Sometimes. Where a deal link pays a referral fee we say so on the card and on the listing page. It never affects ranking, and we will list a tool with no deal at all just as readily.
Refunds?
If a boost has not started, in full. If it has started, pro rata for the days left. If we pull your listing for a policy reason we refund the whole thing.