Leads & leaderboard
On Shipit, a strong launch isn't who rounded up the most upvotes. It's who got curious people to actually open the product. We use leads to your website as the main signal. Upvotes aren't the game here.
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What counts
When someone hits the outbound link on your card and lands on your URL, we count it toward ranking. That's the bar: did they leave Shipit to see what you built?
Promoted slots can show in the feed, on product pages, and in the weekly email digest when placements are active. That's separate from organic order. Organic placement is driven by leads (and for "today," a little help for brand-new posts so they aren't invisible before the first visit; see below).
The "today" feed
Everything launching today is sorted by traction from leads, with a small recency nudge so something that just went live isn't stuck at the bottom before anyone's had a chance to tap. Same idea across yesterday / this week / last week / last month: same signal, different date windows.
Fair play & abuse
Lead counting is rate-limited per IP and per product. That caps how much any single source can inflate a score and stops naive scripts from pumping numbers. We monitor for abuse, ship stronger checks as we learn, and update this page when protections change. Shipit is built to reward real interest, not automated traffic.
Why we bother
Vote leaderboards reward coordination. Outbound taps reward interest: someone who wanted to see the thing. That's the launch culture we're building.