The Rules

0101 Rule one — money is sleep

• $1 buys exactly 1 minute of baby sleep. Always.
• Smaller bids scale linearly: $0.10 = 6 seconds, $0.50 = 30 seconds.
• Every cent buys 600 milliseconds. $1 = 100 cents = 60,000 ms = 1 minute. The math is not negotiable.

0202 Rule two — the meter always runs

• Paid sleep counts down in real time, second by second, even when nobody is watching.
• New bids stack on top of remaining time — if the baby is asleep, your bid extends the nap from its current expiry.
• If the tank is empty, your bid starts fresh from the moment it lands.
• There is no pause button. Babies respect no schedule.

0303 Rule three — zero means crying

The instant the meter hits 00:00, the baby wakes and starts crying: the whole site flips to red alert, and anyone with sound enabled hears the wail. It stops only when a new bid lands.

0404 Rule four — the leaderboard ranks amounts

• Rank is decided by single-bid amount, highest first — not by total spent, not by loyalty.
• Tie on amount? The earlier bid keeps the higher rank. Speed is the tiebreaker.
• The leaderboard shows the top 15 bids.
• Ranks update live for every visitor as bids land.

0505 Rule five — rank #1 takes the spotlight

• The highest single bid's product name and link appear on the spotlight card next to the leaderboard.
• Any single bid larger than the current top bid steals the spotlight immediately.
• Losing the spotlight costs nothing emotionally, we are told. It feels like a lot.

0606 Rule six — keep it clean

• Product names and links must be legal, safe for work, and yours to share.
• No scams, malware, phishing, hate, or spam — violators are removed without ceremony.
• Removed bids keep no rank, no spotlight, and — because all bids are final — no refund either.

0707 Rule seven — the baby is not real

The baby is SVG. The money is real. The sleep is a timestamp. The only real things on this site are the sound of crying and your competitive urge to be rank #1. Spend accordingly.