About takeyourspot.co.uk

This is a public register of UK startups, ranked by what people paid, modelled on the American boards that started the format. The mechanic is simple: pay to appear, get passed, pay more. Every price on this site is in pounds sterling.

What's different here

Everything's in £, not $. A new listing starts at £5. Passing a listing costs at least £1 more than it stands at — whole pounds, no pence anywhere.

VAT invoices. If you're paying as a business, tick the box at checkout and you'll get a proper VAT invoice you can download and expense as marketing spend. It's a small thing, but nobody else running one of these boards bothers with it.

Join the Queue. Before your payment is processed you'll see a short, real queue count — the number of other payments confirmed in the last ten minutes, styled like a station departure board. It doesn't do anything mechanically. It's just very, very British.

One number, and it's the one you typed. Most boards of this kind ask how much you want to pay and then add it to a running total, so a £42 payment on a £41 listing produces £83 — a number nobody chose. Here you name the price you want to stand at and pay the difference. What you type is what the board shows.

Prices are permanent. Nothing decays and nothing resets. A listing keeps its number until someone pays to take the spot above it, and being passed doesn't cost the listing below anything. It makes the board slower to churn, and honest about what your money bought.

Why it might not work

Pay-to-rank boards spread fast after the format caught on, and most clones live on novelty rather than repeat use — once a spot is bought, there's little reason to come back unless somebody passes you. Permanent pricing makes that worse, not better: it's a one-off purchase with no clock forcing a second one. That's a deliberate trade. A board that quietly drains what you paid for is a better business and a worse product, and this one is meant to be honest about what a price buys. If you're building on this, expect the repeat-purchase problem to be real.