Updated live · 50 slots · one currency
The influencer ranking with the price tag left on.
Every other leaderboard sorts creators by some number it won’t explain. This one sorts them by exactly one thing, printed next to every name: what they paid to be there. Pay more than the person above you and you are above them. That’s the whole algorithm.
- Price of #1
- $2,000held by Mira Vance
- Cheapest way on
- $43beats #50 by $1
- On the board
- $8,918.96total paid by 50 creators
The board
ranked by total paid
- 1
Ex-agency colorist who films grading breakdowns nobody else will show for free. 340k on YouTube.
$2,000 - 2
One-take cooking under a countdown clock. If the timer wins, she eats it raw.
$1,410 - 3
Weekly teardown of a brand that quietly changed its pricing page. 61k readers.
$985 - 4
Ambient sets recorded in empty parking garages. Two million monthly listeners, zero press.
$740 - 5
Furniture from salvaged gym floors. Every build filmed start to finish, no cuts.
$520 - 6
Screenwriters read their own rejected pages aloud and defend them. Painful, popular.
$412 - 7
Explains one financial instrument per day using objects on his desk.
$330 - 8
Long-distance cyclist filming supply routes across the Baltics. Documentary in progress.
$275 - 9
Four-piece releasing one song the first Friday of every month since 2021.
$210 - 10
Two therapists review reality TV conflict scenes. Funnier than it sounds.
$164 - 11
Builds one small tool a week and writes up what broke. 44k devs subscribed.
$128 - 12
Live call-in show for people working 11pm to 7am. Runs six nights a week.
$96 - 13
Field recordings from disappearing buildings, one city at a time.
$67.86 - 14
Wheel-thrown work in cobalt and bone. Kiln opens every other Sunday.
$60.01 - 15
The story behind the correction. Weekly, free, no ads.
$49.01 - 16
Restores arcade cabinets found in storage auctions.
$44.08 - 17
A cocktail newsletter for people with four bottles and no ice.
$42 - 18
Regional South Indian cooking with the shortcuts left in.
$42 - 19
Generative visuals for musicians. Open-source patches.
$42 - 20
Twenty-two minute interviews recorded entirely on trains.
$42 - 21
Tailoring thrifted menswear to fit. 900k and climbing.
$42 - 22
Typography breakdowns of signage from the 60s and 70s.
$42 - 23
Woodblock printing, documented at absurd magnification.
$42 - 24
Founders describe the version of the product they were embarrassed by.
$42 - 25
Solo backpacking routes nobody has filmed before.
$42 - 26
Knitting patterns reverse-engineered from film costumes.
$42 - 27
Sound design breakdowns, one effect per episode.
$42 - 28
Independent local reporting on one county. Reader funded.
$42 - 29
Large-format portraits in oil. Studio timelapses weekly.
$42 - 30
Three-hour interviews with people who build physical things.
$42 - 31
One neighborhood, mapped properly, every month.
$42 - 32
Analog photography chemistry, explained by someone who ruins a lot of film.
$42 - 33
Full recordings of opening acts nobody stayed for.
$42 - 34
Bookbinding from scratch, including making the paper.
$42 - 35
Critiques of packaging found in ordinary grocery stores.
$42 - 36
Chess improvement for adults who will never be good.
$42 - 37
Editors break down the first ninety seconds of famous pilots.
$42 - 38
Essays on labor, written from inside the warehouse.
$42 - 39
Marine biology for people who like tide charts.
$42 - 40
Leatherwork start to finish in sixty seconds.
$42 - 41
Professional musicians recording their actual warmups.
$42 - 42
Motion design tutorials with the ugly first drafts included.
$42 - 43
Fiction delivered as correspondence. Weekly.
$42 - 44
Bicycle frames brought back from genuine ruin.
$42 - 45
Interviews about the money side of creative work.
$42 - 46
Flameworked glass, filmed at 240fps.
$42 - 47
Two hours of new releases from labels under 50 people.
$42 - 48
Game dev devlogs where the game keeps not working.
$42 - 49
Indoor growing for apartments with one bad window.
$42 - 50
Illustration process, unedited, four hours at a time.
$42
Claim a rank
settles the moment payment clears
How it works
three rules, no exceptions
Money is the only ranking signal
Your position is your lifetime total on this board — nothing else feeds into it. No follower count, no engagement rate, no editorial judgment, no ad auction quality score quietly reweighting your bid. The number beside your name is the number that ranks you, and everyone can see it.
Passing someone costs $1 more than they paid
To sit above a listing at $2,000, you pay $2,001. Ties go to whoever got there first, so matching a bid puts you underneath it. When the board is full, the cheapest way on is $43 — one dollar past last place.
Topping up only charges the difference
Enter the same link again with a higher total and you pay the gap, not the whole amount. A creator at $400 moving to $650 is charged $250. Your slot is keyed to your link, so you can climb as many times as you like without stacking duplicate listings.
Questions
the honest answers
Can I get my money back if I’m outbid?
No. Payments are final. Being outbid isn’t a failure of the product, it is the product — you bought the position you held for as long as you held it, the same way a billboard doesn’t refund you when the lease ends. Budget for it the way you’d budget for any other placement.
How long does a rank last?
Indefinitely, until somebody pays more than you. There is no monthly renewal and no expiry date. On a quiet board that could be months. On a contested one it could be an afternoon.
Do the links pass SEO value?
No, and deliberately so. Every outbound listing carries rel="nofollow sponsored" because these are paid placements and search engines are entitled to know that. You’re buying human attention and clicks here, not link equity.
What stops someone squatting #1 forever?
Nothing except somebody else’s wallet. That’s the design. If you think the person at the top overpaid, the remedy available to you is the same one available to everyone: pay a dollar more.
Who’s allowed on the board?
Any creator, any platform, any size. Listings that are illegal, sexual, impersonate someone else, or point somewhere deceptive get removed and refunded — that’s the one case where money comes back.
Where does the money go?
To the person who runs this site. There is no revenue share, no creator fund and no pool paid back out. Saying so plainly is the point of the whole exercise.