After reading many of the encouraging founder stories here, I've decided to start preparing for the launch of my app, Iter.

Iter is an AI travel planning app that learns a traveler's interests to build personalized itineraries that can be further customized by the user.

As a first-time founder, I'm excited but also a bit nervous. I'm relatively new to Product Hunt and haven't had much time to build a network within the community yet, which makes me wonder whether the launch will simply go unnoticed.

Hi Product Hunt,
I'm Roberto, from Wales originally from Rome.
For the last few months I've been building something that started as a very small idea and somehow evolved into a much bigger project than I ever expected.
The original frustration was simple.
I became increasingly tired of seeing the internet flooded with fake reviews, purchased engagement, botted comments, fake followers and ranking systems that nobody can really understand.
Today it's becoming harder and harder to know whether a business, creator, product or service is genuinely appreciated by people or simply has a larger marketing budget.
At the same time, small businesses often struggle to compete because visibility on most platforms is controlled by black box algorithms that nobody outside the company understands.
So I started asking myself a simple question:
What if visibility itself became a transparent marketplace governed by public mathematical rules instead of hidden algorithms?
That idea eventually became Uppale.
What is a Slot:
A Slot is essentially a digital business card.
Users can create a fully customizable card containing:
Title, Description, Photos, Website links, Social media links, Discount vouchers, Promotional information
The card can represent almost anything: A local restaurant, A startup, A freelancer, A YouTube channel, An online store, A software product, A personal project
The goal is simple: Get visibility.
The part that makes Uppale different
Every Slot has a value.
That value determines its ranking position inside a public leaderboard.
Unlike traditional advertising platforms, nobody owns a position forever.
Every Slot continuously loses value through a public mathematical decay mechanism.
Currently the decay rate is 0.4% per hour.
This means visibility is always fluid.
No hidden ranking factors.
No recommendation algorithms.
No engagement farming.
No mysterious score that only the platform understands.
Everything is visible and predictable.
Refuels and Boosts:
Slot owners can increase their own Slot value through Refuels.
However, moving up the leaderboard is not simply a matter of adding money.
To take over a higher position, a Slot must exceed the effective value of the Slot directly above it by at least the platform's Minimum Jump Rate.
For example, if Position #5 has an effective value of 100 and the Minimum Jump Rate is 5%, a competitor must reach at least 105 to claim that position.
This creates a transparent and predictable ranking system where every movement follows the same public rules.
Other users can support Slots they like through Boosts.
Boosts work differently from Refuels.
A Boost can start from as little as 0.50 and can be made by any supporter who wants to help a Slot gain visibility.
When somebody Boosts a Slot:
The Slot immediately gains ranking power
The owner receives real earnings (95% of the boost amount)
The Slot's decay timer resets
The community actively influences visibility
This means visibility is not controlled only by the Slot owner. Communities can actively help businesses, creators and projects climb the leaderboard through collective support.
A business can spend nothing after creating its Slot and still climb the leaderboard if enough supporters decide to Boost it.
This is the concept I call community powered visibility, and it's one of the things I find most interesting about how Uppale works.
Why I built it:
As an engineer I love systems where the rules are visible.
Most social platforms operate as black boxes.
Creators and businesses spend money without truly understanding why one post succeeds while another disappears.
I wanted to experiment with the opposite approach.
What happens when every rule is public?
What happens when visibility behaves more like a live market?
What happens when communities can directly support what they want to see?
I genuinely don't know whether this idea is brilliant, terrible, or somewhere in between.
That's exactly why I'm posting here.
Current testing phase:
The platform is currently in testing.
To make experimentation easier, every newly registered user currently receives:
10 in the UK
10 in Europe
$10 in the US
The credit can be used to create Slots, test Refuels and try the Boost system.
No purchase is required to explore the mechanics.
If you decide to have a look, I have some test slots running at this category:
https://uppale.com/en/c/restaura...
Most other categories are still empty because I'm focusing testing efforts there first.
You can also read how the platform works here:
https://uppale.com/en/how-it-works
and the project background here:
https://uppale.com/en/about
I'd love your thoughts
1. Would you trust a visibility system based on transparent mathematical rules more than traditional advertising algorithms?
2. Does the idea of visibility constantly decaying make sense, or does it feel too game-like?
3. If you owned a business, startup, YouTube channel or side project, would you use something like this?
4. What's the biggest flaw or risk you immediately see?
I'm genuinely looking for honest criticism and feedback before launch.
Thanks for reading.

Hey everyone,

If you ve ever run an agency or done freelance client work, you know the absolute dread of "Reporting Week."

You spend hours digging through messy call notes, exporting CSVs from three different ad platforms, taking screenshots of dashboards, and trying to format it all into a slide deck that the client will probably skim for 30 seconds. It s an administrative nightmare that scales horribly.

I wanted to fix this, so I built ReportIQ.

SO this is Deskie, a chrome extension which will let you put pictures of your loved ones on screen and decorate your otherwise boring screen!

My motivation behind making it was for WFH people to get a place to put their loved ones framed and decorate their Screen with Charms, like one does on a real Office Cubicle/Desk :)

Hi guys. I am Damir, and for the past 10 months I am building a project named AGIRAILS, which is an open-source trust and settlement layer for agent to agent transactions.

So, the idea to test settlement over email came when I found out about YC startup AgentMail - they have built pretty smart email solution for agents. Since I was in hosting/email industry for decades, it resonated  a lot - could it be possible to use such a "boring" protocol like email to be combined with the escrow and settlement protocol we built - and it worked beautifully.

We built Botme to do more than answer questions and here's what that actually means:

Most AI support chatbots stop at Q&A. Customer asks a question, bot answers, conversation ends.

That always felt like a missed opportunity to us.

So we built what we call Superpowers. A set of actions your agent can take inside the conversation, not just words it can say.

Hi, I m Mel. I work on customer experience at BOSS.Tech, a SUPERAPP designed to bring every tool together so running a business actually feels easier. I m a little obsessed with making products people genuinely enjoy using. I think about clarity, flow, small details, and those oh this is nice moments that make a tool feel unforgettable. Happy to chat about workflows, usability, or how we design for humans, not just features.