topcompanies.live

How it works

topcompanies.live is a public leaderboard. There are no ads, and no API keys. You pay to stand above everyone else. Rank is the bid — nothing else.

How ranking works

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    Whole dollars, $5 at a time

    New listings are whole US dollars, $10 minimum, $999,995 maximum, $5 at a time.

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    Taking #1 costs $5 more than the top bid

    Taking #1 costs at least $5 more than the current top bid — $35/month right now. Paying less still puts you on the board at whatever rank that bid can take.

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    Equal bids keep the order they were placed

    Equal bids stay in the order they were placed — the older bid keeps the higher rank.

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    Enter the same website again to raise it

    Enter the same website again to raise that listing to any rank. The new bid must be at least $5 above your current bid; you only pay the difference. Someone else cannot take your rank by paying that difference — they have to outbid the full amount you hold.

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    Gold, Silver, Bronze

    #1, #2 and #3 get the podium — on the front page and inside every category. Category podiums are separate, so a niche crown is cheaper than the overall one.

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    Stop paying and you are archived

    A failed payment gets a 7-day grace period. After that, or when you cancel, your listing moves to the archive — visible forever, ranked never. Your spot goes back into the pool of 100, and restarting a subscription climbs back on if one is free.

Because the money recurs

A one-time bid buys a place in a photograph. A subscription buys a place in something that is still moving tomorrow — which makes four things possible that a one-time board cannot have.

Every rank has a history

The board takes a snapshot of every rank once a day. Your listing page draws the whole thing: where you peaked, what it took, and every day you spent on the board.

Every month is a season

At the end of each month the board is frozen exactly as it stands and published at /seasons, permanently. Get outbid in November and the October season still says you won October. Cancelling does not take it back.

Auto-defend

Set a rank and a ceiling from your manage link. When somebody passes you, your subscription is raised to the next legal bid above them and you get the rank back — up to the ceiling, and never past it. Every defence invoices the difference immediately and emails you that it happened. Two listings defending the same rank will escalate until one of them runs out of ceiling; that is the mechanism working, not a bug in it.

You are told when you drop

Being passed is the only thing on this board worth an email, so it is the only thing we send one about: who passed you, where you are now, and what taking the place back costs. Point it at a Slack or Discord webhook instead if you would rather your whole team saw it. Turn either off from your manage link.

What you can list

After you pay

Your listing is public. Clicks go to the URL or profile you submitted, without query parameters.

A completed payment is what claims the rank. Nothing is reserved by filling in the form — the board only changes when Stripe confirms the payment.

Half the profit feeds people

50% of profit — what's left after Stripe's fees — goes to hunger relief, and the running total is public. Right now that is roughly one meal for every $0.50 of profit.

What this board is

This is a paid placement board. A high rank means a company was willing to spend money, and nothing else. It is not a review, an audit, or an endorsement. Treat it exactly like the ad it is — the only difference is that we show you the price.

Payments are handled by Stripe; we never see your card. Subscriptions are cancellable at any time. Fees already charged are non-refundable. We remove listings that break the rules above, or that are illegal, malware, or impersonating someone else, without refund.

Claim a spot — from $10/mo How it works

Taking #1 today costs $35/month. Cancel any time — you just lose the spot.