Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions apply to programmerneeds.com and its directory services. By using the service or purchasing a promotion, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use or purchase the service.

Keep your account secure and provide accurate information. Submit only products and content you own or are authorized to represent. Do not submit unlawful, misleading, infringing, abusive, or harmful content, manipulate votes, or interfere with the service.

Listings, media, edits, and community contributions are subject to review. The current free plan allows three active pending or approved products and two new products per rolling 24 hours. Rejected and archived listings do not consume active slots. New listings must complete one-time website badge verification or a confirmed Pro or Launch Boost purchase before becoming public. Existing approved listings remain eligible. Badge removal, cancellation, or plan expiry does not undo this completed step. Homepage Spotlight alone does not skip verification. Paid promotions do not add listing slots or bypass moderation. Editing and image uploads are included at no charge under the current plan.

Listed products are provided by their respective makers. You are responsible for evaluating them and their own terms before using or purchasing them. A listing or paid placement is not an endorsement by ProgrammerNeeds.

All payments to ProgrammerNeeds are non-refundable, except where a refund is required by applicable law. All sales are final. We do not offer voluntary refunds, partial refunds, cancellation credits, or unused-time credits.

This policy includes payments for promotions and Pro subscriptions, including when you change your mind, stop using the service, lose a ranking position, replace an earlier payment, or have content or access suspended or removed under these terms. Nothing in these terms limits rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Prices are in US dollars. Launch Boost and Homepage Spotlight are one-time payments with no automatic renewal. Stripe processes payments; a return from Checkout alone does not confirm payment or activate a placement.

You may close an unpaid checkout without purchasing. This does not cancel or refund a completed payment. External payment reversals and disputes are recorded and may suspend or revoke paid visibility. Contact us if you believe there has been a payment error.

Launch Boost currently costs $5 once for one pending or approved product you own as a launch offer. The planned regular price is $10; Checkout currently charges $5. After server-confirmed payment activation, the product is pinned above organic results on page one of This Week on both the homepage and leaderboard for seven days. Its original launch date and vote count do not affect Boost eligibility. Payment permanently skips badge verification, but moderator approval is required for public visibility. The seven-day period starts at confirmed payment even while awaiting review.

Search and category filters still apply, across sort options. Multiple Boosts share the promoted positions, newest activation first, then purchase ID. The same product is not repeated among organic rows on that page; organic rank numbers, scores, and pagination are preserved.

This Month, All Time, and later pages retain normal ordering. An active Boost keeps its sponsored label and orange styling only when the product qualifies naturally for those results. Boost does not change votes, add screenshots, or provide a separate sponsored section.

An active Boost or unresolved Boost checkout blocks another purchase for the same product. You may purchase again after expiry. The seven-day period continues during moderation, disputes, or other periods when a listing is hidden; it does not pause or restart when payment status is refreshed.

Choose a one-time whole-dollar payment from $1 to $10,000 for an approved product you own. Each product has one ranking amount: its latest confirmed payment. Higher amounts rank first. Equal amounts favor the earlier confirmed payment, then purchase ID.

An eligible placement is protected from being outbid for its first 30 elapsed days (720 hours) from confirmed payment. We show the top configured number of eligible products plus every eligible product still within that protection period. Extra visible rows preserve the 30-day protection; a higher payment can move above yours immediately.

After 30 days, eligibility does not expire automatically. Your product stays visible while it ranks within the configured base positions; otherwise it is hidden and may return when its ranking qualifies again. Administrators can change the base count from one to twenty, initially five. Changing this count does not shorten an otherwise eligible placement’s 30-day protection.

A new successful payment is charged in full and replaces your previous ranking amount. Payments do not accumulate, and you are not charged only the difference. During an active, valid 30-day protection period, a replacement must be strictly higher than your current amount. After protection ends, equal or lower payments are allowed and can lower your position. Each confirmed replacement starts a fresh 30-day period.

Unresolved payments must be closed or reconciled before starting another checkout for the same product. Pending, failed, and canceled payments do not replace a confirmed amount. Refreshing payment status does not start a new protection period.

Only approved products owned by the purchaser qualify. Pending, rejected, archived, and deleted products are hidden. Moderation and disputes do not pause or extend the clock. Reapproval or a resolved dispute may restore eligibility; reversing the latest payment does not restore an older replaced payment. Partial reversals are recorded for administrator review.

Administrators reserve the right to review, reject, edit, suspend, or remove listings and contributions, restrict accounts, and suspend or cancel paid promotions. This includes violations of these terms, misleading or unsafe content, suspected fraud, payment disputes or reversals, security concerns, legal requirements, or discontinuation of a service.

Payment does not purchase immunity from moderation or guarantee continued access when these terms are breached. Visibility protection does not prevent removal for these reasons. Paid periods continue while content is hidden, and our no-refund policy applies subject to mandatory legal rights. You may contact support to request a review of a decision.

Administrators may suspend or cancel Pro subscriptions for the reasons described above. Cancellation stops future renewal charges; remaining paid access follows these subscription terms and applicable law. Cancellation does not refund prior payments except where legally required.

When checkout is available, Pro currently costs $9 USD per month as a launch offer for one pending or approved product you own. The planned regular price is $19 USD per month; Checkout currently charges $9 USD per month. It renews automatically until you cancel future renewals from Dashboard → Pro Visibility. Each confirmed paid billing period includes two public articles of at most 800 words and sponsored leaderboard placement until the paid period ends. A billing month follows the Stripe billing dates, not a fixed 30-day window. Payment permanently skips badge verification, but moderator approval is required for public visibility. Billing starts with payment even while awaiting review. Free listing limits stay unchanged.

Pro products share sponsored rows above organic results on page one of the homepage leaderboard and /leaderboard, across timeframes and sorts, subject to search/category filters. Pro activations, paid renewals, and Launch Boosts are ordered newest activation first, then payment ID. Pro does not guarantee a unique number-one position or a Homepage Spotlight slot. A product with both Pro and Boost appears once; the original Boost clock continues.

We aim to publish the first in the first week and the second in the third week of each paid period. Service interruptions may delay publication. Overdue paid articles remain owed after normal cancellation or expiry and do not require another payment. Contact support if an article is overdue. Articles are not professional advice or proof of firsthand product testing.

You can edit or delete your own articles from the dashboard without approval, including after cancellation. Administrators can edit or delete any article for moderation. Edits must retain the sponsorship disclosure and paid-link attributes. Deleting a delivered article does not create a replacement or restore its monthly article slot. Articles otherwise remain public after cancellation.

Canceling future renewals does not refund prior charges; paid placement continues until its recorded end while the product and payment remain eligible. Failed renewals grant no new articles or placement period. Hidden/deleted products lose placement while the paid clock continues. Disputes suspend the affected paid benefits; full reversals or lost disputes revoke them. Mandatory legal rights remain protected.

Buying one-time Launch Boost or Homepage Spotlight does not create a subscription. Pro payments follow the non-refundable policy above except where applicable law requires otherwise. No guaranteed indexing, search ranking, traffic, clicks, or sales is included.

Paid placements are labeled Sponsored. They provide the placement described here, not a promise of clicks, impressions, signups, sales, a fixed ranking position, or business results. Community votes and organic ranking remain independent of payments.

We work to keep the directory available, but maintenance, technical issues, and third-party interruptions can affect access. We do not promise uninterrupted service. These terms do not exclude liability or obligations that cannot lawfully be excluded.

ProgrammerNeeds administrators may update, replace, or discontinue any free or paid plan, including its price, features, listing limits, eligibility rules, and promotional offers, to reflect operating costs, product changes, security needs, or legal requirements. Free access is a current offering and is not a lifetime commitment.

We will give affected users reasonable advance notice of material changes to an existing plan, explain when they take effect and the available options, and provide any notice or consent required by applicable law. A change to the free plan does not authorize a charge or automatically enroll you in a paid plan. A paid upgrade requires your agreement before payment.

Updated prices apply to new purchases as disclosed before Checkout. The purchase terms accepted when a payment is made govern that purchase; plan changes do not increase an amount already paid or reduce an existing paid placement commitment. Moderation and payment-dispute rules still apply, subject to mandatory legal rights. For subscriptions, changes affecting a renewal will be disclosed in advance with an opportunity to cancel before the new charge.

We may also update these terms and will update the date on this page. Material changes will be communicated as described above. Nothing in a plan or terms update overrides rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded.