Categories

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Browsing by category

Categories exist because the weekly board mixes everything together. A developer looking for a database tool has no reason to scroll past marketing products, and a category page gives them a single ranked list of everything in that space that has ever launched here, ordered by the same evidence-weighted score used on the main board.

A product sits in exactly one category, chosen by the maker at submission and adjusted by us when it is clearly wrong. Keeping it to one prevents the failure mode where every product tags itself into every category, which is what makes category browsing useless on most launch boards.

Ranking inside a category uses the same inputs as everywhere else: verified domain control and community votes, with the verified signals weighted far more heavily than the votes. That means a quiet product with confirmed numbers can outrank a louder one that has none, which is the entire point.

If you want a narrower cut than a category, tags go one level deeper - a tag page exists for any tag carried by three or more live products.

Common questions

Who decides which category a product goes in?
The maker picks one at submission. We only change it when a product is plainly in the wrong place, and the maker is told when we do.
Why can a product only have one category?
Because multi-category tagging degrades into every product claiming every category, which makes the lists worthless. Tags cover the cross-cutting cases instead.