Advertise on MCP Hunter
One ranked board per week, for products that ship an MCP server. The audience is small, technical, and here on purpose. Three sponsor positions, one maker upgrade, all labelled as paid, and none of them touch the leaderboard.
What rank costs: nothing, because it is not for sale
Not at any price, not in any position below. Votes decide the order and nothing else does. A sponsored card carries no rank at all, and a maker who buys the featured upgrade still appears in the ranked list at exactly the place their votes earned. If that were negotiable this would be a paid list wearing a leaderboard's clothes, and nobody would have a reason to read it.
The three positions
Priced per week, Monday to Sunday. Your slot takes the next open week for that position and goes live on its own. The current week is never sold, because a slot bought on a Friday would be charging a full week for two days.
Above the board
$29 / weekA full-width card above the week's listings, directly under the heading. The first thing on the page.
Where it renders
A schematic, not a screenshot. The dashed blocks are the other two positions, drawn so you can see what this one is not.
- ✓ Your icon, name, one line of copy and your own call to action.
- ✓ Renders on the homepage and on the week page, every day of the week you buy.
- ✓ Sits above rank 1 without being a rank, so it cannot be misread as a product that placed.
- ✓ One slot per week. It is not shared or rotated.
29 clicks guaranteed, or it keeps running free
If your week delivers fewer than 29 clicks we keep the slot running at no extra cost until it does, for up to 8 further weeks. Still short after that and you can have the $29 back. We count every click on the redirect your link already goes through, and the number is yours to ask for at any point.
Availability
Inside the feed
$19 / weekA card in the list itself, directly after rank 3, where a reader is already reading.
Where it renders
A schematic, not a screenshot. The dashed blocks are the other two positions, drawn so you can see what this one is not.
- ✓ In the reading flow rather than beside it, which is why it is labelled and given no rank number.
- ✓ Renders after the last card on a quiet week, so the position you bought always appears.
- ✓ Same card shape as the one above the board.
- ✓ One slot per week.
19 clicks guaranteed, or it keeps running free
If your week delivers fewer than 19 clicks we keep the slot running at no extra cost until it does, for up to 8 further weeks. Still short after that and you can have the $19 back. We count every click on the redirect your link already goes through, and the number is yours to ask for at any point.
Availability
In the rail
$19 / weekA card in the right-hand column, above last week's winners, in view for the whole page.
Where it renders
A schematic, not a screenshot. The dashed blocks are the other two positions, drawn so you can see what this one is not.
- ✓ Visible beside the board the whole way down on desktop.
- ✓ Stacks under the board on a phone rather than disappearing.
- ✓ Sits above the winners list, which is the other thing readers come to that column for.
- ✓ Up to two slots per week.
19 clicks guaranteed, or it keeps running free
If your week delivers fewer than 19 clicks we keep the slot running at no extra cost until it does, for up to 8 further weeks. Still short after that and you can have the $19 back. We count every click on the redirect your link already goes through, and the number is yours to ask for at any point.
Availability
For makers: the featured listing
Feature your launch
$39 one-offBought on the submission form rather than here, because it attaches to a listing. Your product gets its own labelled card above the board for your launch week.
- ✓ Your icon, name and tagline in a card above the board, on the homepage and on the board for your launch week, all seven days.
- ✓ The same connection line your listing carries, printed on that card, whenever we could reach your server.
- ✓ A second link to your product on the page, on top of the one your ranked row already carries.
- ✓ Your ranked row stays exactly where your votes put it, and carries no paid marker at all.
Not included: your rank, your votes, whether we approve you, or the followed link. Those are decided by the vote and by a human, exactly as they are for a free submission. The card runs for the open week only, so once the week closes the archive keeps your ranked row and drops it. A listing we do not approve gets the $39 back.
What we are not telling you
No traffic numbers, no impression counts, no reach figure. This board is new and no sponsor slot has run yet, so any number here would be one we made up. The same rule that stops us writing "12,000 developers" on this page is the one that keeps every listing's verification line to a date and a measurement: we publish what we counted, and nothing else.
What we offer instead of a figure is the guarantee above. You should not have to take a number on trust from a board that has not published one, so we carry the risk of missing it rather than asking you to price it. Every sponsor link runs through a redirect that counts the clicks from the first day it goes live, and that count is what the guarantee is settled against.
Questions
Can I buy a better rank?
No. The order is decided by votes, and there is no price for changing it. A sponsored card sits outside the ranked list entirely and carries no rank number.
Do I get a followed link?
No. Sponsor links carry rel="sponsored", because selling followed links is a Google link scheme and a manual action against this domain would destroy the traffic that makes a placement worth buying. The only followed link this board hands out is the one a week's top three earn.
Will my card show a tool count or a verification line?
Only if your server passed the same connection test every listing takes. A sponsor we have not connected to shows no such line at all, rather than a softer version of one.
What happens on an archive week?
Sponsor cards run on the open week only and are never rendered on an archive page. You are buying the week people are reading, not a permanent placement.
How do I know it ran?
The slot is on the live board for the week you bought, and the click count is yours to ask for at any point. If it did not render, tell us and we will run it again free.
Which week do I get?
The next open one for the position you bought, and the card goes live on its own when that week starts. Buy more than one week at checkout and you get the next open weeks in order, skipping any already taken. The current week is never assigned, because you would be paying a full week for whatever days are left in it.
What counts as a click?
A visitor following your link from the board. Every sponsor link goes through a redirect on this site that increments a counter and then sends them to you, so the number we settle the guarantee against is the same number your own analytics should see arriving.
What if the guarantee is not met?
We keep the slot running at no extra cost until it is, for up to 8 further weeks. If it still has not landed by then, ask and we refund what you paid in full. You do not have to watch the number for us: the shortfall is on our own admin screen and the extension is our job to run.
Can I sponsor and launch in the same week?
Yes, and they stay separate. Your ranked row is earned by votes and carries no paid marker; the sponsor card is labelled and carries no rank.
What we will not sell
- — A rank, a vote, or any influence on the order of the board.
- — A followed link. The only one this board hands out is the one a week's top three earn.
- — A verification line, a tool count, or any claim about your server that we did not measure ourselves.
- — Approval. A human reads every submission, and paying does not change what they decide.
Anything else: [email protected].