A leaderboard for the practical stuff.

The internet is full of life-advice content. Most of it is long, generic, or written by someone trying to sell you a course. We wanted a single page where the highest-leverage life hacks bubble to the top — the kind you can read, try, and either keep or throw away by the end of the day.

One leaderboard, no taxonomy. Anything that meaningfully improves a person’s day-to-day fits, but the hacks that make the cut tend to cluster around a familiar set of life areas:

• Productivity — focus, planning, getting unstuck.
• Money — saving, spending less without misery, simple personal-finance moves.
• Career — interviewing, negotiating, navigating a job, learning in public.
• Health — small daily habits, not medical advice.
• Sleep — bedtime routines, fixing the morning, jet-lag recovery.
• Relationships — friendships, dating, family, the hard conversations.
• Home — keeping a place liveable without spending weekends on it.
• Learning — picking up a skill faster, retaining what you read.
• Social skills — small-talk, listening, making people feel seen.
• Mental clarity — managing input, stress, attention.
• Habits — building or breaking routines, behaviour design that sticks.

We don’t require submissions to fit one of these buckets — they’re a description of what tends to show up, not a checklist. If your hack is specific, actionable, and worth a stranger’s time, it belongs.

The tabs on the homepage are different ways of slicing the same set of published hacks:

• Hot — recent hacks with momentum. We use a time-decayed score that rewards upvotes and comments while gently penalising age and reports.
• New — published in the last day or so, ordered by date.
• Top — net upvotes minus downvotes, plus the editorial bonus we add to standout hacks.

Reading, voting, commenting, and reporting all work without an account. We use a per-browser anonymous ID (cookie) and a hashed IP/user-agent fingerprint to stop someone from voting on the same hack a hundred times — we don’t use it to track you across the web, and we never store the raw IP.

One side effect: if you clear your cookies, your previous votes from that browser are forgotten. That’s fine — this isn’t a profile, it’s a leaderboard.

Hacks publish the moment you hit Post — there’s no review queue, no waiting list, nobody’s inbox you have to wait on. Quality is enforced by the leaderboard itself: real votes and reader reports. The good stuff rises, the spammy stuff sinks, and anyone can flag a hack that doesn’t belong.

Bad-faith submissions get filtered automatically — we screen for profanity, duplicates, and rapid-fire spam. Beyond that, the community is the curator. Read the guidelines for the kinds of hacks that tend to land well.

One sponsor at a time, max. No banners, no popups, nothing inserted between tips. The single sponsor slot lives in a slim bar at the bottom of every page, clearly labelled. Advertising details →