How it works

1. Pick a project

Scroll the feed. Every card is one product with its live totals, views, engagements and its own $-per-choke candle chart. Every card is its own URL — share it straight from the share button.

2. Pick a tier and pay once

Hit PUMP IT. First, the identity gate: sign in with x — every pump rides on a real account (your display stays anon unless you say otherwise). Then six tiers, one-time payments through Polar (we never see your card). The full price is the tier price — no subscriptions, no hidden fees:

• SPICE $1 — +$1 to the total · sparks on stream
• FIRE $3 — +$3 to the total · fire burst
• ICE $10 — +$10 to the total · diamond rain
• MOON $25 — +$25 to the total · rocket + screen shake
• KING $100 — +$100 to the total · gold storm + flash
• WHALE $500 — +$500 to the total · full whale takeover

3. What lands, exactly

• +$X added to that project's public total and rank — instantly, live for everyone
• a one-time on-stream animation (sparks at low tiers → full whale takeover at $500)
• ur message + stars on a permanent public receipt — fronted by ur @handle + avatar ONLY if u flip the switch; anon is the default
• the $/choke candle moves — more pumps push it up, chokes drag it down
• nothing else. no equity, tokens, prizes, or refunds — it's a pump: a final donation to a leaderboard

4. CHOKE — the dark art of pushing back

Think a project is overrated? Running on vibes and cope? CHOKE it. A choke drags their $ per choke DOWN — same effort, more weight on the bar. The candles bleed magenta. Beautiful.

But war has rules. Every choke costs you something — that's the deal, and it's fair:

• sign in with x — every choke rides on a real identity, no drive-bys
• solve a captcha — prove you have hands, not a bot farm
• confirm you accept the consequences. no takebacks
• visit their site — you get escorted there. they get the traffic. you both win the engagement war
• the app reloads — you re-enter the arena and see the damage
• 30s cooldown, same IP — one hand, one choke. no machine-gunning

One choke is one clean shot. Choke with intention. Choke with honor. And remember: every choke you land still sends them a visitor — you're fighting them and feeding them at the same time. That's not a bug, that's diplomacy.

5. The charts

Every project carries a fun $ per choke number = total USD pumped ÷ total chokes. Pumps push it up; chokes drag it down. Candles run both directions — pump green, choke magenta. The OUTCHOKE INDEX aggregates the whole wave into one system-wide efficiency number. Every chart goes fullscreen — hit the expand button.

To be crystal clear: these charts are decoration for fun. They are not market data, nothing is being traded, and there is nothing to buy or sell — a candle only shows pump history.

6. Metrics

• Views — project page loads (feed and details pages)
• Engagements — chokes + pumps + outbound link clicks
• Chokes — captcha-gated pressure, 30s cooldown per IP

7. Founders: embeds

Every project page has a copy-paste embed badge — live rank SVG with a backlink baked in. Drop it in your README or site footer and your rank advertises itself. Details on any project page.

8. Own a listing?

Submissions require signing in with X — same identity that fronts your chokes. Listed something and want the name, tagline or logo corrected? Hit “dm @_trou3 to edit this listing” on the project's details page: it opens a prefilled X DM with your request.

9. The consent gate

Your first visit shows a consent dialog covering the terms, privacy policy and disclaimer. Accept — confirming you're 18+ and legally eligible — and you get the full arena. Decline, and the app goes read-only: the board keeps working, but pay, choke, submit and X sign-in stay hidden on that device. Payments themselves are 18+ only.