Rules
The essential rules for listing, voting, duels, and showcases.
Last updated: 5 September 2026
List only what you own
Your website must be live, safe to visit, and owned or represented by you. Use its real name, correct category, honest description, and genuine founder details.
Do not copy another listing, submit somebody else’s product, or create duplicate entries for the same domain.
Keep the leaderboard real
The community leaderboard is free and ranked by genuine member upvotes. Founders cannot upvote their own website.
Sharing your listing is welcome, but bots, purchased votes, fake accounts, vote exchanges, and automated clicks are not. Click totals are activity signals and do not guarantee visitors, leads, or sales.
Entering a duel
SiteDuel opens three free duel registrations each UTC day. Each founder may use one free registration per day. After a founder uses that free entry, additional registrations cost $19 each; the payment is one-time and not a subscription.
Free and paid entries use the same matchmaking queue. Your website waits until a different eligible opponent joins. The 24-hour duel begins when the match is created, not when the entry is submitted or paid for, so an exact start time cannot be promised.
A product cannot be registered again while it is waiting in the queue, competing in a live duel, or active in the winner Showcase. It may be registered again after its Showcase placement ends.
Voting and results
Each signed-in member gets one permanent vote in a live duel. A submitted duel vote cannot be removed or switched. Founders cannot vote in a duel containing their own website.
The website with more valid votes after 24 hours wins. A tie adds one hour of sudden death; if it remains tied, the website that reached the final tied score first wins.
Showcase positions
A duel winner earns one full 24-hour turn in the 10-position winner showcase. If every position is occupied, the winner waits and receives the full turn when a slot opens.
Founders can buy a featured showcase for 7 days ($29), 14 days ($49), or 30 days ($75). These are one-time payments for one website. The selected period starts when the website goes live in one of the 10 paid positions. If the positions are full, the purchase waits in line and the paid period does not start until a position opens.
When the selected period ends, the website leaves the paid showcase and the next waiting website can take its place. A showcase gives your website a place in front of the community, but it does not promise clicks, customers, sales, or a particular position.
Join the discussion like a person
Comments are for useful questions, honest feedback, and the occasional bit of encouragement. Speak to the person behind the product the way you would want people to speak to you. Keep replies connected to the conversation and do not pile on, harass, impersonate, or post private information.
You may delete your own comments and replies. Deleted comments remain in the thread as a placeholder when they have replies, so the conversation still makes sense. Do not use comments for vote trading, advertising floods, harmful links, or automated messages.
Play fair and stay safe
Do not submit harmful, illegal, deceptive, copied, adult, or misleading content. Do not impersonate founders, manipulate votes or traffic, attack other products, or hide where a link really goes.
SiteDuel may investigate and remove unsafe listings, invalid activity, or abusive accounts to protect the community.
By listing or entering a duel, you agree to follow these rules and keep SiteDuel useful for every founder.