# Ranking rules

> How launch weeks, upvotes and Product of the Week work on indieSaaS.

Canonical: https://l.domainrating.app/rules

## Launch weeks
- Every week runs from Monday 00:00 UTC to Sunday 23:59 UTC.
- All products in a week go live together on Monday; voting closes for everyone on Sunday night.
- Products approved during a running week go live straight away.

## Upvotes
- Anyone with an account can upvote, once per product. Makers can't upvote their own products.
- Members active every day for the last 7 days give 2 points per upvote; everyone else gives 1. Points are fixed when the vote is cast.
- Each account can cast up to 30 upvotes per hour. Votes from fake accounts, bots or vote swapping are removed.
- For the first 24 hours of each week, counts are hidden and the list is shuffled (fair start).

## Ranking
- Products are ranked by upvote points; on a tie, the product that reached the score first ranks higher.
- The #1 product wins Product of the Week: an award badge and a place in the Hall of Fame.

## Premium and Featured
- Premium marks a paid launch: shown higher while the week runs, but rank comes only from points.
- Featured is an editor's pick.

## Relaunches
- Relaunches are currently turned off: each product launches once.

## Free launches
- Upvote 4 products to get into review.
- The badge is optional: add it as a followed link and your product page links to you with a followed link. Remove it and the link turns nofollow; the listing stays up.