Show HN: Highscore.money – Pay your way into the highscore

A while ago I was thinking about how people spend a lot of their money on impressing others. Fancy clothes and jewellery, the red sports car, etc. Really all it is, is showing off how much money you&#x27;ve got to waste.<p>I like to make things more efficient, so I came up HIGHSCORE.MONEY – A public scoreboard you can participate in by simply paying. The more you pay, the higher you&#x27;re place in the scoreboard.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s a bit silly, but people can be silly at times so I figured I&#x27;d give it a shot and see what happens.<p>Curious to hear what the HN community thinks.

Good work on setting this up.<p>I think I&#x27;ve heard of a similar concept before, but using t-shirts. Setup an &quot;exclusive&quot; t-shirt range, of nice cotton white t-shirts.<p>The t-shirt would include a picture&#x2F;logo&#x2F;design, which was $X - where $X was whatever amount you wanted to pay for the t-shirt.<p>So you could walk around with a t-shirt that said $100 - or you could walk around with a t-shirt that said $1,000,000 - and people would you know you spent $1m on that t-shirt...

Reminds me a bit of the old Million Dollar Homepage: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.milliondollarhomepage.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.milliondollarhomepage.com&#x2F;</a>

The problem with this as gamification is that there is zero ability to play for less than the current high-score. That is a real problem: suppose 500 people were wiling to pay close to, but not over, $10, but hardly anyone was willing to pay over $10. If 15 people have paid $10 it now prices anyone wanting to pay up to $10 completely out of visibility. Since we said there were 500 such people, you lose $5,000 while making 15 * 10 = $150. That&#x27;s a real design problem. Pay-to-play should give everyone something.

This is basically a pay-to-win game simplified down to the leaderboard.<p>I hate pay-to-win games. They do have an uncomfortable similarity to the real life though.

I kind of hate this, but I still paid you $22 because it&#x27;s actually awesome.<p>Nice one! Maybe donate the funds to charity?

Just paid $30 to get Radio Silence to the top, out of pure interest in how much traffic that&#x27;d bring. Well played!

Reminds me of the $500,- BlackBerry clock app: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crackberry.com&#x2F;500-desktop-clock-app-blackberry-i-was-dumb-enough-buy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crackberry.com&#x2F;500-desktop-clock-app-blackberry-i-was...</a>

I love this idea, it would probably look better if it was for charity though.

This could be the new <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;milliondollarhomepage.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;milliondollarhomepage.com</a> of this decade.

I wanted to pay $0.01 to stay at the bottom of the list, but the minimum is $1 ... Sad :(

I&#x27;ve paid a cent, and it threw an error in my face, and didn&#x27;t show up :(

I hope that the internet will meltdown once enough has been collected

have you thought about adding a visits count? would give an indication of what you are buying...