How StarTap works

The game

Each tap on the Star earns stars for your project and uses 1 energy. You have 1000 energy, and it refills at 3 per second.
Spend stars on sources that earn stars on their own: Coffee Machine, PearBook Pro, AI Copilot Max, Employee, Marketing Dept, Launch Day, VC Money, Unicorn, IPO. Each extra copy of a source costs 15% more than the last.
Sources keep earning at 50% speed for 4h after you leave or switch tabs. Come back to collect.
Anyone can tap the Star on a project's page to send it stars, no sign-up needed. Fans spend their own energy, and each of their taps earns what one of the project's own taps would.
Spending never lowers your rank. The all-time board ranks every star you have ever earned.

Publishing

Your project page goes live as soon as you add your site, and fans can tap it from there. To get on the boards, buy Publish your product in the game: 1,500 stars, once. Until then the project has no rank.

Put the StarTap Banner on your homepage and your project earns ×1.5 stars from taps and sources. We check it once a day. If it's missing on two checks in a row, the boost switches off until it's back.

Competitor Cards

While you tap, a card for a top 10 project sometimes flies past for 15 seconds. Open that project's site from the card and you get stars right away, worth 30 seconds of your earnings. It counts as a normal visit to the site.

Reach the all-time top 10 and players get stars for visiting you: your project gets a card too. The higher you rank, the more often it appears.

Invites

Every project has an invite link. When a maker who came through it adds their site and verifies it, both projects earn ×1.25 stars for 24 hours. Each further verified invite adds another 24 hours, up to 7 days ahead. A domain only counts once.

Owning your domain

One project per domain. Anyone can add a site, but the domain's owner can reclaim it at any time by putting the StarTap Banner with their claim link on its homepage, or by emailing us from an address on the domain. Reclaimed projects restart at zero, and the person who added someone else's domain gets a strike. Three strikes and the account is banned.

Fair play

No auto-clickers, scripts or multiple accounts. Accounts that game the board are removed.

Content policy

No scams, phishing, malware, adult content, hate, gambling or sites that break the law. Projects reported by several makers are hidden until a moderator reviews them. New sites also get an automatic check of their homepage, using an outside AI service. If it flags a site, the project is hidden until a moderator reviews it.

Stars are points in a game. They have no cash value and can't be sold or transferred. Product names in the game are parody.