Ad slots are free right now
HelloBuilder is early. Rather than charge early prices for early traffic, every slot is free to any listing carrying our badge, and prices start when the site has earned them. What you get in the meantime is real: a dofollow link, placement across the site, a spot in the weekly issue, and the traffic we send you, measured and shown to you.
The deal
- 1List your product, free. It stays free and it never expires. Listings are never gated.
- 2Put our badge on your site. We check it is really there, and we check again daily. That is the whole exchange: you link to us, we link to you.
- 3Your link turns dofollow, and a slot opens up. One month in the on-site rotation, or one weekly issue. Take it whenever you want it.
Where the slots are
Rail cards
10 positions
The side columns on every feed and listing page, rotating.
In the feed
3 positions
Inside the products list itself, at places 3, 7, 12.
Newsletter
3 per issue
In the weekly issue, alongside what builders shipped that week.
Every placement is labeled Sponsored, whether it was paid for or granted. Off-site links carry rel="sponsored". No placement changes where anything ranks.
The rules we don’t bend
- Base listings are never gated and never expire.
- Dofollow links are earned by putting the badge up, and we do not sell them today. The badge route never closes, so a link you earned stays earned.
- Ranking is never for sale. The leaderboard is tracked signals only, and paid placement never moves a product in the feed.
- Newsletter features are editorial. They cannot be bought.
- Paid placement is always labeled.
When slots start costing money
When the site is worth it, and not before. Prices are set against what comparable places charge for the audience they actually have, and we will publish the number we are pricing against when we start. If you want to know first, or you want something bigger than a slot: hello@hellobuilder.ai.
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