BoardByHand

How it works

Three taps, then your spot is up on the board.

You never touch an auction, a bidding screen, or a dashboard. You write your spot, you pay, and the rest happens on our side of the counter.

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The board your spot will stand on — standing empty here, waiting for its next name.

1 · Pick your room

Six boards, one for each trade on the shelf. Buy the board where your people pass — or every board at once for one monthly price. A board's founding price goes to its first five businesses; after that, the standard price. The count on the boards is live, so the price you see is the price that stands.

2 · Write your spot

Your name in the spot, your trade under it, your colors, a headline, and two plain lines — exactly as they will stand, your name big and lit on the face. You watch your spot take shape while you type.

3 · Pay

One monthly payment, by card, through Stripe. $49 or $79 a month for one room; $149 or $249 a month for every room. Your card is charged each month until you cancel — cancel anytime, no deposit, no lock-in.

After you pay

A person looks. Your spot goes up. The count starts.

Money first, approval second — that order is the promise. A person reads your spot, and everybody who pays gets approved. When we look at yours, we put it up the same day, and your first month starts that day — never the day you paid.

Your spot takes its turns on the big board up front and stands on your trade's board, beside the other businesses in your line of work, always marked Paid promotion. It also gets its own page — your spot standing big, at its own address, made to be shared. While your subscription runs, your spot stands. If you cancel, it stays up to the end of the month you paid for, then comes down by itself.

Who passes

How people reach your spot.

Your own sharing. Your spot's page is yours to pass around — the link goes in your email, your posts, your messages. People who already trust you meet your spot there first.

Doors from our own sites. The tools standing on these boards are used every day by the crowds in each trade, and their sites point readers at the boards. The board is never off on its own: the road to it runs through the tools its people already use.

Search. Every board is a page of its own, written in the words people type when they look for a trade and its services — so a person looking for what stands on your board can find the board, and your spot on it.

Every tap on your spot — from the big board, from your trade's board, or from your page wherever you shared it — is counted and lands on your private count page.