How AlphaShot works
Products stay listed. Rankings change with recent votes. Paid placement is clearly labelled and never changes organic position.
Create a permanent listing
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Submit it
Name, what it does, a link, the categories it belongs in. The page is permanent and lives at its own URL.
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Pick a date
Schedule it and it sits on the upcoming board until it publishes itself, at the time you chose.
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Go live
It joins the board and voting opens. Answering people in the thread moves a listing more than anything else.
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It stays up
The page does not expire. Votes keep counting, the thread stays open, and any badge it won stays on it.
The one limit worth knowing
One major launch per product every 90 days. A genuinely new release earns a new launch; a changelog entry does not. Without that rule the board is the same handful of products relaunching forever.
Rankings measure attention inside a time window
Trending
Votes received in the last 7 days.
Newest
Most recently published listings.
Top this month
Votes received in the last 30 days.
Top all time
Every valid vote a listing has ever received.
The rules behind those numbers
What counts
Upvotes from signed-in members. One vote per member per launch, enforced by the database rather than by a check that can race.
What breaks a tie
The launch that went live earlier wins. The order is deterministic, so the same board never reshuffles itself between two page loads.
What does not count
Paid placement. Promoted slots are labelled and sit outside the ranked feed, so they never push a free listing down. Their own votes still count.
Vote limits
20 votes a minute per account, on top of requiring an account at all. Scripted voting is the thing that kills a board like this.
Removing a vote
Allowed, any time, and the count is recalculated from the votes themselves rather than nudged up and down.
Awards and badges
When a week or a month closes, the top products are recorded permanently. The vote count is frozen at that moment, so a result published today still means the same thing in a year.
Every award gets a public verification page and an embeddable badge you can put on your own site. If staff ever adjust a result — removed fraudulent votes, say — the verification page says so, along with the reason.
Links, and what we vouch for
A row on the board
nofollow. Anyone can create a listing, so a listing is not something we vouch for.
A verified product page
Followed. Verification means someone proved they control the domain, and that is the only basis on which we will pass a link.
An unverified product page
nofollow, until it is verified. Verifying is free and takes a DNS record.
A promoted slot
nofollow and sponsored, always, on every surface. Selling followed links is the practice that gets directories penalised, which would destroy the value of every page here.
Every outbound link also carries a UTM tag naming the page it came from, so the traffic we send you shows up in your own analytics rather than as unattributed direct visits.
Where money does and does not reach
Listing and launching are free. Promotion is paid, always labeled, and never touches the ranking, the awards or the leaderboard. A board where money moves the numbers is worth nothing to advertise on, which is the whole reason the line is drawn there.
What is free and what costs money →Ready to put yours up?
Takes a few minutes, costs nothing, and the page is yours to keep.
Submit your productStill have a question? Read the FAQ or get in touch.