Marketplace · 2026
daybid
One featured app slot, auctioned every day. Highest bid owns the homepage for twenty four hours, every losing bid pays nothing.
What it is
A directory of apps where listing is free and one slot at the top is sold by daily auction. Today's auction is for tomorrow's slot and closes at midnight UTC. The winner owns the homepage for a full day and then lands permanently in the archive.
Why I built it
Every app directory eventually turns into pay to rank, where money quietly buys position across the whole list and users stop trusting the ordering. A single, visible, time boxed slot is the honest version of the same business model. You can see exactly what was bought, it expires, and the rest of the directory stays clean.
How it works
The auction is a real clock, not a countdown widget. Bids are held and only the winner is charged, which removes the reason to lie about your maximum. The directory seeds itself from the public App Store API so the site is never empty, and with no database configured it falls back to a local file store so the whole thing runs offline.
Where it stands
Built and running locally with the payment path stubbed. It needs an audience of app developers before the auction means anything, which is the real problem with marketplaces and not something more code fixes.