Pricing
Only one of these buys rank. The crowd still gets a vote on it.
A bid sets your baseline position — the confidence-weighted crowd vote shifts it from there, for free, in either direction. The verified badge and sponsored pins are flat add-ons that don’t touch the ranking formula at all. Kingpin Growth is a separate tool entirely — a founder-side discovery engine, sold by the run.
Board & feed rank
Bid to rank
From ₹1.00
No fixed plan — it's an auction, not a subscription.
Your bid sets a baseline. The crowd vote moves you from there — up or down — at no extra cost to you.
Fallen out of position? Refueling costs more every time you do it, so money alone can’t camp on top.
Every bid, refuel, and refund is public in the listing’s ledger — amount, timestamp, effect on rank.
See the live boardOne-time add-on
Verified badge
₹10.00
Folded into your bid payment — one checkout, no separate charge.
Adds a verified mark to your card and its ledger entry.
Doesn’t change your rank or vote weight — it’s a trust signal, not a ranking input.
Fixed placement
Sponsored pin
₹250.00 / 24h
3 slots per category, sold first-come.
Sits above the ranked list, clearly labeled “Sponsored” — it never enters the score sort and never decays.
When all slots are full, the next purchase queues for whichever one expires soonest.
Founder tool, separate from the board
Kingpin Growth
₹999.00 for 10 runs
₹99.90/run base rate — cheaper the more you buy.
Tell it what problem your product solves. Each run searches Hacker News for people already having that conversation and drafts a reply with AI for you to review — nothing is ever posted for you; you approve, edit, and post it yourself.
| Quantity | Rate | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 1–24 runs | ₹99.90/run | 10 runs = ₹999.00 |
| 25–49 runs | ₹89.90/run | 25 runs = ₹2,247.50 |
| 50+ runs | ₹79.90/run | 50 runs = ₹3,995.00 |
Buy 1–100 runs at a time, in INR or USD. Runs never expire and carry over if you buy more before using them all.
Open your founder dashboardBoard bids and Growth runs can be paid in INR or USD — you pick at checkout, and every bid is still normalized to one reference currency behind the scenes so it ranks the same regardless of what you paid in. The verified badge and sponsored pins are INR-only today.
Full mechanics live in the Rules. The legal terms for all of the above are in the Terms.