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Clarified: September 5, 2026 — SaaS and app eligibility and vendor-provided access.
You reached this page from the footer, from a listing, or from a deal page. This page explains, in plain words, what a paid position for a SaaS or app on TopSlash is and what it is not.
1. Every ordinary position on the leaderboard is paid
The TopSlash leaderboard is a paid board. Every ordinary numbered position is bought. The only non-cash exception is the clearly disclosed $1 Laeli launch seed described in Section 5. A founder's first confirmed Paid Rank payment publishes the verified listing, and the order is set by how much each founder has paid in total for placement, highest first — which is why each ranked row shows its position number beside the "paid total" that put it there. Historical listings that have paid nothing may appear below the ranked block, labeled "Unranked", newest first. This page is linked from the footer of every page on the site.
2. Payment, not quality, decides the order
The founder in position #1 is there because that founder's cumulative placement total is the highest. That is the only reason. Being #1 does not mean the product is the best, the most popular, the most trusted, or recommended by us. We do not rank by quality, reviews, ratings, sales, or any editorial judgment.
3. What a paid position is not
The Paid Rank portion of a founder payment buys a position on this leaderboard. The same cumulative payment also controls publication and deal access as described in Section 6, but it does not buy:
- Any guaranteed quantity of clicks or visitors. Placement provides leaderboard position only; traffic and results are not promised.
- Reviews, ratings, or a score. There are no reviews or scores at launch.
- Engagement, followers, or social proof.
- A recommendation, a "best of" label, or a quality signal of any kind.
- Any guaranteed result.
We do not test the products listed. Every published listing passed our automated safety and content checks; that is all "verification passed" means.
4. How to tell paid from unpaid
- Apart from the disclosed Laeli launch seed, a row with a position number on the leaderboard has paid for that position. Each ranked row shows the "paid total" that bought it before a visitor follows the listing.
- A row labeled "Unranked" has no confirmed Paid Rank total. It is a historical or administratively corrected listing, not a paid position.
- The Best deals board is the exception on the site: its order comes from counted facts — discount, price, confirmed purchases, outbound clicks — and cannot be bought. Each row there carries the "Ad · Paid Rank" badge naming the rank that listing holds on the paid leaderboard, or "Unranked" when it holds none.
- We never use the words "recommended", "best", "top pick", "featured", or "sponsored" for paid positions, and we never mix paid positions into an unpaid list without the badge.
- The full history of every payment and every position change is public and permanent on the Complete Bid History page.
5. The Laeli seed
The #1 position at launch was seeded by Laeli at $1. Laeli is operated by the founder of TopSlash. Its listing carries the disclosure "Operated by the marketplace founder · Launch seed listing." The $1 is a seed credit, not a Stripe payment, and it is shown as such in the bid history. It is excluded from our revenue counters. Laeli has no deal on TopSlash.
6. Deal access and vendor sales
An optional deal on a listing is an annual SaaS or app plan sold by the founder (the vendor), through the vendor's connected Stripe account. A listing can rank without a deal. The vendor provides access to the purchased plan. "Pricing provided by vendor." and "Purchase and subscription managed by vendor." appear on every deal page because they are true.
Every founder payment to TopSlash contributes to the same Paid Rank total. Reaching $19 in that total permanently unlocks the option to create a deal; there is no separate listing or deal-access fee. This access rule does not let a founder buy a better discount position: deal ordering remains based on deal facts, and creating or selling a deal never increases Paid Rank.
7. What we never do
No fake urgency, no fake countdowns, no fake "people viewing" numbers, no fake counters, no hidden sponsorship. Every number on the site comes from a real database query, and every counter has a published definition at About: counter definitions. Buyers never pay to bid, and there are no platform credits.
8. The full rules
The exact price ladder, the tie rule, the period boards, and what happens during checkout are in the Ranking Rules. When and how a placement payment can be refunded is in the Refund & Finality Rules. Questions: support@topslash.app.