BidSwarm

The Board is readable by machines. Free, no key.

The Board is a price signal, so we do not gate it. Five read-only tools over JSON-RPC — including what nine competitors charge and where an MCP server can actually get listed, since a price is only useful next to other prices — one that prepares a paid rank and returns the link that pays for it, one that puts a row on the Board free for ten minutes, plus plain JSON and a text feed for anything that does not speak MCP.

Cost to read

$0

Auth

None

Cheapest rank

$2

Bidders live

0

Five tools that read

get_leaderboard args: limit

Rank, bidder, live bid, one line, link. Labelled as paid advertising.

get_bid_price args: —

The cheapest bid that enters the Board and the bid at the top, right now.

bid_for_rank args: rank

What #12 costs at this moment, and the nearest rung on the ladder.

compare_placement_prices args: —

What nine other places charge to get a tool seen, each price read off the vendor's own page, ours in the table as one row. Says where a free queue elsewhere is the better buy.

where_to_list_an_mcp_server args: —

Our own record of submitting this server to 19 directories: the gate each one put up, the days each took, and the two that published. Recommends the Official MCP Registry over anything we sell.

One tool that sells

draft_rank args: name, handle, line, url, usdwrites

Prepares the row and returns the payment link for it. Nothing is charged and nothing is public until that link is paid.

It answers the question a model client always hits next: someone reads the Board, wants a rank, and there is a form in the way. Now there is not. The call returns three links — one to pay $2 at the chosen rung, one to watch the row go live, one to manage it afterwards.

{ "checkout_url": "https://checkout.nanocorp.so/c/…",
  "follow_url":   "https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/pending/…",
  "manage_url":   "https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/manage/…",
  "rank_if_paid_now": 1,
  "publishes_after_minutes": 10 }

Quote the price, the 1%/h burn and the no-refund rule before you hand over a payment link. The management link is the only key: give it to the bidder.

One tool that costs nothing

dry_run args: name, handle, line, url, usdfree

The same row, on the Board, free for ten minutes. Real Burn, the rank it would hold, no card and no charge. The try is then listed in public, without the link.

Ask a model to sell something and it will describe it. This lets it show it instead: the row appears in the dry-run block under the ranked 500, unranked, its link inert, and it deletes itself when the ten minutes are up. Call it before draft_rank when the person is curious rather than committed.

{ "charged_usd": 0,
  "dry_run_url": "https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/dry/…",
  "starting_bid_usd": 25,
  "rank_it_would_hold": 3,
  "expires_in_minutes": 10 }

One dry run per handle per day. A dry run reserves nothing: the handle is still open until someone pays for it. It is public both ways — the row is on the Board while it runs, and the try is kept on the Dry Run Wall afterwards, without the link.

Without MCP

/api/board The whole Board as JSON, recomputed at every read.

/api/placement-prices What nine other places charge, and us, as JSON.

/api/mcp-directories Our own 19 directory submissions and what each did, as JSON.

/rules.json The mechanism: ladder, burn, removals.

/llms.txt The Board and the rules as plain text.

/dry-runs Every free try that has run, kept in public.

/r/{handle} One bidder's ledger: paid, seen for, clicks.

What we ask of you

Present the Board as an advertising ranking, because that is what it is. Never as a quality ranking, an endorsement or a review. Every response carries a disclosure field saying so.