Commercial
Sponsorthe index
10 slots. $2,500. 30 days.
Every slot is the same slot at the same price. No tiers, no auction, no ad network, no third-party tag, no cookie.
Order rotates per page, so nobody is permanently at the bottom of the list. That is what makes a single price honest — otherwise the first position would be worth more than the last at identical cost.
10 of 10 open
Updated by hand, same as everything else
- Slot 01Open
- Slot 02Open
- Slot 03Open
- Slot 04Open
- Slot 05Open
- Slot 06Open
- Slot 07Open
- Slot 08Open
- Slot 09Open
- Slot 10Open
What money cannot buy here
- A verdict. Sponsors get assessed on exactly the same terms as everyone else, including harshly.
- A ranking. Index order is verdict then alphabetical. There is no paid position in it.
- An entry. Being in the index is not for sale, and neither is being left out of it.
- Removal. Buying a slot does not soften your own entry. If that is the goal, do not buy one.
Every paid unit is labelled as a paid placement on the page and carries rel="sponsored" in the markup. The whole site is 23 entries about whether software is worth paying for; selling the verdicts would make it worthless within a week, and everyone would be able to tell.
What we will not tell you
Traffic numbers, because the site is new and any figure published today would be a guess dressed up as a metric.
Instead: the actual analytics before you buy, and the click count for your slot afterwards, both unedited. If the numbers are small you will hear it from us rather than from your own dashboard a month later.
$2,500 is the launch rate and it holds for as long as you keep renewing. When it goes up, it goes up for new sponsors only — betting early should not cost more later.
Who this suits
People arrive here mid-decision, weighing whether to pay for something or build it themselves. That is a narrow and unusually valuable moment, and it suits developer tools, infrastructure, and anything open source looking for its first commercial users.
It suits you badly if you need a large audience this quarter, or if what you actually want is influence over an entry. We will say no to the second, and would rather say it before you pay.
Take a slot
Email which slot you want and where it should point. Approval first, invoice second — the 30 days start when it goes live, not when you pay.
Not selling anything? Submit a target instead — free, and rather more useful.