bidrank is a leaderboard where the ranking is the product. Everything below is derived from the database at request time — none of it is written by hand.
Launched .
Rank is simply your total paid. It costs $5 to appear on the board at all, and paying $5 more than the current leader's total puts you at #1. Bidding on a URL that is already listed tops up that listing's total rather than creating a second row — you only pay the difference you want to add. Nothing is an auction and nothing expires: today's board resets every 24 hours, the all-time total never does.
Visitors are counted server-side, once per visitor per day, from a hashed fingerprint — no raw IP is ever stored. The "watching now" figure is live presence, not a simulation. Views and clicks per listing are deduplicated per session.
bidrank is a side project, built in public. The build thread on X has the running notes on how it came together.
Built by Muhammad Usama Zain — @usamazainsays on X.
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