Everyone is waiting.
Richest Queue puts people looking for what's next in the same place as projects waiting to be found. General Admission is $5. Credits buy a VIP day or Featured placement. The response and RQ Rank are earned.
The product
General Admission creates one permanent public RQ ticket after confirmed $5 payment and starts measurement.
Credits are the only other thing for sale. Credits are bought in packs or earned by finishing an entry and supporting other projects. Credits buy a VIP day (the highest sealed bids each day) and eight-hour Featured runs on the screens in the world. They buy visibility, not a favourable result.
RQ Rank is the separate earned board. It combines Product Signal with measured Momentum once enough evidence exists for a meaningful public position. Spend contributes zero ranking points.
The Pot receives 20% of successful payments and pays money to projects RQ selects. It awards no ranking points.
One number one
RQ #1 is earned. A day at the rope is bought, labelled, and over in twenty-four hours.
RQ goes looking too
RQ Radar scouts projects outside the Queue. Candidates are not entrants and receive no ticket, Momentum or RQ Rank unless they genuinely join. A curated external find may appear as RQ Found, explicitly marked as not in the Queue.
What RQ measures
On RQ: meaningful impressions, project opens and outbound visits. Around the web: applicable search movement, Web Rank, backlinks and referring-domain movement. Where it lives: applicable app-store, GitHub, YouTube and similar public platform evidence. Project updates are owner-published and dated. Ranking evidence is assessed separately; posting an update does not buy or guarantee a higher rank.