TopSlash connects people with independent software and app vendors. Vendors promote eligible products through paid ranking and 30-day campaign services. Buyers pay the vendor or store for a plan or a one-time pack; TopSlash’s campaign credits pay for advertising.
TopSlash is a marketplace for SaaS and app deals. A founder's first clearly labeled Paid Rank payment publishes the verified product on the public board. To sell a deal, the founder publishes a 30-day campaign with one campaign credit. Buyers claim limited-inventory discounts sold by the vendor: web plans through the vendor's own Stripe or Dodo Payments account, app offers through the App Store or Google Play. TopSlash sells advertising placement and marketplace publication; it is not the seller of the SaaS or app plan or pack. See how it works, step by step.
Who it is for
Founders submit a product, pass automated or human verification, and choose a labeled paid position on the public board. SaaS, web, mobile and desktop apps can rank with or without a deal. The first confirmed payment publishes the listing. Payment never bypasses the verification or moderation rules.
Buyers browse the board and the published deals and claim a limited-inventory discount. Web deals are yearly plans, monthly plans or one-time packs paid to the vendor through Stripe or Dodo Payments; the vendor is the seller and handles access, billing, cancellation and refunds (Dodo Payments is the merchant of record for its deals). App offers are annual plans you buy in the App Store or Google Play; the store handles billing, cancellation and refunds.
How ranking and deals work
- Positions are ordered by cumulative confirmed paid total; ties keep the listing that reached the total first.
- First public claim of #1 is $2, then $5, then the current #1’s total plus $5. Any other position takes a $1 minimum payment. Returning founders pay only the difference.
- Every Paid Rank payment adds to the same cumulative total; there is no separate listing charge.
- A deal runs as a 30-day campaign that uses one campaign credit. Credits are priced separately from Paid Rank; see Pricing.
- Checkout never reserves rank. Only a verified completed Stripe payment changes a total.
- Today and This Week count payments inside the Pacific-time period, not lifetime totals.
- Paid rank is advertising. It is independent from quality; payment never exempts a listing from marketplace eligibility rules.
- Deals are sold by the vendor, not by TopSlash. Web deals show the normal price, the deal price and, for a yearly or monthly plan, the renewal price before checkout.
Ranking Rules · Paid Placement Disclosure · Pricing
Paid ranking and shared cards
Paid positions and top-three medals represent advertising rank, not quality awards. Shared cards record the stated snapshot date; positions and available deals can change. Read the Paid Placement Disclosure.
Who operates it
Operated by Envol, Inc.; founder: Tony. Reach us through the contact form or by email at support@topslash.app.
Laeli disclosure. The listing Laeli is operated by the marketplace founder and seeded at $1 with the label “Operated by the marketplace founder · Launch seed listing.”. The seed is a disclosed credit, not a Stripe payment: it is excluded from the revenue counter and shown on the Complete Bid History as “Launch seed”. Laeli can also run an App Store offer for its iOS app on TopSlash; it follows the same rules as every other app offer.
What the counters mean
Every number on the site is a query. There is no synthetic increment, no countdown without a server-side end time, and no “people viewing”. When a counter is shown, it means exactly this:
- Unique visitors (approx., cookie-free): Distinct daily visitor hashes (sha256(daily_salt ‖ ip ‖ ua ‖ lang)) summed over days since launch; HyperLogLog ±0.8%. Page views are not visitors.
(Redis HLL → counter_snapshots) - Active now (approx.): Distinct visitor hashes with a page view in the last 5 minutes.
(Redis) - Confirmed platform ranking revenue: Σ rank payments − Σ reversals: gross confirmed payments minus reversals, not net of Stripe fees or taxes. The Laeli seed credit is excluded.
(Postgres) - Highest cumulative rank total: max(rank total) among published listings.
(Postgres) - Approved listings: Count of listings with status published.
(Postgres) - Unique outbound clicks: Count of click rows: one per visitor per listing per Pacific day; suspected bots excluded.
(Postgres) - Claims: Count of checkout holds started. A claim is not a purchase.
(Postgres) - Verified purchases: Count of purchases confirmed by Stripe or Dodo Payments and not fully refunded.
(Postgres) - Verified realized savings: Σ (normal price − paid) over verified, non-refunded purchases.
(Postgres) - Available inventory: Σ remaining units over published deals.
(Postgres) - Available deal value / potential savings: Σ inventory value / Σ potential savings over published deals. Theoretical and labeled as such.
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Transaction history
Confirmed ranking contributions and reversals are recorded in the public paid-rank history.