The fine print

House rules

Headliner is a public billboard. No ads, no API keys, no revenue share. You pay to stand above everyone else. Money is the ranking signal. Nothing else.

How the bill works

• New listings are whole US dollars, $5 minimum, $999,999 maximum, $1 at a time. Bids already on the board keep their amount until they raise or get passed.
• Taking the headline costs at least $5 more than the current #1. Paying less still puts you on the bill at whatever rank that bid can take. Equal bids stay in the order they were placed — the older booking keeps the higher slot.
• Enter the same website or @handle again to raise that listing. The new bid must be at least $1 above your current bid; you only pay the difference. Someone else cannot take your rank by paying that difference.
• App Store, Play Store, GitHub, and similar platform links are keyed by their path, so different apps don't share a bid. Tracking query strings are ignored.

What you can book

• A product website, or an X @handle.
• Chat and invite links are not allowed — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Messenger, Signal, and similar. This marquee is for products and profiles, not group chats.
• Links to sexual content are not allowed. If it is porn, NSFW, or an adult platform, it does not belong on the bill.
• Query parameters are stripped from listing links. Affiliate, referral, and tracking URLs will not work.
• Link shortener URLs are not allowed. If you submit one, it is replaced by the URL it redirects to.

After you pay

• Your listing is public. Clicks go to the URL or profile you submitted, without query parameters.
• A completed Polar payment is what books the slot.
• Checkout runs through Polar. The webhook is what writes you onto the bill — if the page comes back a second early, give it a refresh.