⚖️ Official Guidelines & System Specs

Platform Rules & Bidding Economics

outbuy.one operates with 100% mathematical transparency. Below is the exact technical specification for our incremental cumulative bidding, Outbuy Credit buyout loops, and content moderation rules.

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1. Incremental Cumulative Bidding & Outbuy Credit System

How stack building, micro-payments, and buyout consolidation credits operate.

Core Concepts

📈 1. Lifetime Accumulation (No Reset)

Rank is strictly determined by total cumulative dollars invested in a product over time. Unlike winner-takes-all auctions where previous bids vanish, your spend never resets to zero.

🪙 2. Fair Incremental Delta

When overtaking a competitor or #1, you only pay the incremental difference (+$1.00 min increment) between their total bid and your product's existing cumulative bid.

💎 3. Buyout Cash Back

When a competitor overtakes your #1 spotlight, you automatically receive 5% of your total spend back as Outbuy Credits in your wallet to counter-boost immediately.

💡 Practical Example: Overtaking #1 Spotlight

• Scenario: Product A holds rank #1 with a total bid of $1.00. Your Product B is at rank #2 with an existing bid of $1.00.
• Target for #1: Leader ($1.00) + Minimum Increment ($1.00) = $2.00 required total.
• What you actually pay: Required ($2.00) minus your existing Product B bid ($1.00) = only $1.00 additional payment! Your prior $1.00 is preserved, bringing your new total to $2.00 and immediately crowning Product B as the new #1.
• Open Community Bidding: Anyone (creators, community fans, or marketing sponsors) can boost any product's cumulative rank at any time.

🧮 Checkout & Top-Up Logic Step-by-Step Calculation

// 1. Determine requirements

Desired Target Spend = Target Bid Amount (e.g., $2.00)

Existing Product Spend = Total Already Spent on Product (e.g., $1.00)

Net Top-Up Required = MAX(0, Desired Target Spend - Existing Product Spend) // = $1.00

// 2. Apply available platform credits

Apply Available Credits = MIN(User Credit Balance, Net Top-Up Required) // e.g., MIN($0.50, $1.00) = $0.50

// 3. Final checkout amount via PayPal

Final Payment Amount = Net Top-Up Required - Apply Available Credits // = $0.50

On Payment Success

Update Product Volume: Your product's total lifetime spend increments by the Net Top-Up Required (Total Spend = Existing Spend + Net Top-Up). Your product immediately jumps up the leaderboard.

Apply Credits: Any Outbuy Credits chosen at checkout are deducted from your dashboard credit balance, and the transaction is recorded in your account ledger.

Dethroning the #1 Spot: If your payment crowns your product as the NEW #1 rank:

The system identifies the displaced previous #1 product owner.
Verifies the anti-self-outbidding check: you cannot earn credits by outbidding your own products or accounts.
Automatically credits 5% of the previous product's total spend to the displaced owner's dashboard credit balance.
Dispatches an automated Outbid Notification Email to the displaced owner with their new credit reward and instructions to boost back.

🚫 No Self-Outbidding Credits

Credits are only awarded when displaced by a distinct competitor. Bidding against your own products or accounts yields zero credits.

🔒 Non-Transferable & Non-Withdrawable

Credits have zero fiat cash-out value. They cannot be transferred between users or withdrawn to PayPal, bank, or crypto wallets.

⏳ Lifetime Validity (No Expiration)

Credits never expire. Keep your credits indefinitely and redeploy them when ready to launch or defend rank.

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2. Moderation & Blacklist Rules

Strict restrictions to maintain link safety, SEO equity, and platform reputation.

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No NSFW or Adult Content

We prohibit pornography, adult webcam portals, sexually explicit services, or escort platforms. Submissions containing adult content will be rejected or delisted without refund to preserve merchant compliance and domain reputation.

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No URL Shorteners (`bit.ly`, `t.co`, `tinyurl`)

Submissions must be direct, canonical product or landing page URLs. URL shorteners obscure destination safety, trigger anti-phishing flags, and rob your domain of genuine direct backlink equity. Shortened links are rejected automatically by our ingestion validator.

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No Direct Chat or Invite Links (`discord.gg`, `t.me`, `wa.me`)

outbuy.one is a discovery directory for software products, AI platforms, indie SaaS, newsletters, and verified creator profiles—not a link dump for raw chat rooms or channel invites. Please submit your primary website, product landing page, or official social profile.

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No UTM Query Parameter Spam

Please submit clean destination URLs. Do not append dirty tracking queries (?utm_source=...&utm_medium=...). Our system automatically applies clean, uniform outbound referral attribution (?utm_source=outbuy) to all dofollow links across the platform.

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3. Deterministic Ranking & Fair Play

Zero algorithmic bias: position is defined strictly by verified volume.

Total Math Transparency: Unlike traditional directories that sell subjective reviews or hide products behind opaque algorithms, our leaderboard position is calculated 100% mathematically from verified cumulative volume.

Deterministic Tie-Breakers: When two products hold identical bid totals, the product whose first verified transaction was recorded earlier retains the superior rank. Timestamp records are immutable and logged in UTC.

No Negative Balances: Outbuy Credits are deducted automatically at checkout when elected. Bidding balances cannot go negative, and all credit deductions are verified atomically against database ledgers.

Ready to Build Your Stack?

Submit your product, make small regular top-ups, and build permanent lifetime ranking authority.

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