About

Most places that rank products hide the mechanism. Votes are gamed, editorial picks are opaque, and the ad slot marked “sponsored” tells you someone paid without ever telling you how much. This board removes the pretence. The number beside a listing is the money behind it, and anyone can read the whole ladder.

That makes it useful in two directions. A buyer gets attention priced transparently instead of auctioned through a black box. Everyone else gets an honest read on which products have conviction behind them this week.

A pay-to-rank board has one predictable failure. The top gets bought, the buyers stop bidding, and the ladder turns into a monument nobody bothers toppling. Everything below the fold goes quiet because there is nothing left to contest.

Heat is the answer to that. Every payment halves in value every 30 days, so the top of the board becomes reachable again on a schedule everyone can see. A listing shows both what it has spent and what that spend is currently worth, along with the date its rank is projected to fall. Nothing is hidden, and nothing stays won by standing still.

Ranks are set in naira. That is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation: a ladder needs a single ordering scale, and pricing in the currency most of our early listings earn in keeps the board honest for them. Claimers anywhere else pay in their own currency at a rate locked at checkout.

The categories reflect the same intent. Fintech, logistics, remote work and energy get their own boards rather than being folded into a generic business bucket, because that is where a lot of African product density actually sits.

No ads, no revenue share, no API keys to buy, and no algorithm deciding who deserves visibility. There is no way to rank without paying, and no amount of paying buys anything other than a position. Editorial standing is not for sale here because there is no editorial.

Category corrections, listing disputes and everything else: hello@topple.bid.