Terms

Last updated 5 September 2026

Stubbers is a free weekly prize draw for products. These are the rules. They are meant to be read, so they are short and say what actually happens.

1. It is free, and it stays free

Entering costs nothing. There is no purchase, no payment, no fee, no subscription and no card details at any point. Nobody can pay to enter, pay for extra tickets, or pay to be placed anywhere on the board. There is no paid tier and nothing is for sale here.

Because there is no payment of any kind and no paid route to a ticket, this is a free prize draw.

2. One live URL, one ticket

You enter by giving us the address of a product that works. When you submit it our server fetches that page once, to check it loads and to read its title, description and icon so the form arrives filled in. If the page cannot be reached, or answers with an error, we will not take the entry.

You give us five things:

• the URL
• a name for it
• one line about it, up to 90 characters
• your email address
• your X handle

One entry per URL and one per email address. A person reviews every entry before it appears on the board. Until then it is not in any draw.

Once approved, your product name, URL, one line, X handle, icon and entry number are shown publicly on the board and on the page for any draw you are in. Your email address is never published.

3. A second ticket for sharing

After each Friday’s winners go out you can post them on X and send us the link along with the email address on your entry. A person checks the post is real and is yours. If it is, your entry gets a second ticket in the draw that is currently running.

One share claim per set of winners. An entry can hold at most two tickets in a single draw — one for entering and one for sharing. There is no third ticket and no way to earn one.

Tickets do not accumulate week after week. Every draw issues fresh tickets, so somebody who entered this morning has exactly the same chance as somebody who has been in since the first draw.

4. When draws happen

A draw settles every Friday at 18:00, Europe/London. The next draw opens immediately afterwards and closes the following Friday at the same time. Clock changes are handled in London time, so it is six in the evening in London all year round.

5. How many winners

3. That rises to 4 once a draw has 500 tickets in it, and 5 at 1,000. 5 is the maximum.

The count is taken from the ticket total at the moment the draw settles. Both numbers are then frozen and published on that draw’s page, so they cannot be adjusted afterwards.

6. How winners are picked, and how you can check

The method is published and anyone can reproduce it:

• When a draw opens we generate a random 32-byte seed and immediately publish its SHA-256 hash. The seed itself stays secret while the draw is running.
• When the draw settles we take HMAC-SHA256(seed, ticket id) for every ticket, sort the tickets by that value, and walk down the list until we have as many distinct entries as there are places.
• An entry can only win once in a draw. If an entry’s second ticket comes up after it has already won, that ticket is skipped and the place goes to the next one down.
• The seed is then published in full, along with every ticket in the draw and which entry held it.

Because the hash goes up before entries close and the seed goes up afterwards, you can confirm the seed was not swapped: its SHA-256 must match the hash published earlier. Every settled draw is at /draws, which publishes the seed, the frozen ticket and place counts, and every ticket with the entry that held it. The method above is the whole method — nothing is left out — so you can reproduce the result from that page with about twenty lines of code in any language.

7. Winners sit out for 3 months

If your product is drawn, it is not eligible again for 3 months from that draw. Your entry stays on record and you keep getting the emails, but it is issued no tickets until the 3 months are up, after which it goes back into the next draw to open. Sharing during that period does not override it.

8. Entries we will not take, and ones we remove

We can refuse an entry, or remove one already on the board, if it:

• is not a live product — a waiting list, a holding page or a coming-soon page
• does not load, or stops loading
• is not yours to enter
• is illegal, hateful, deceptive, or exists to harm the people who click it
• breaks these rules, or is an attempt to work around them

If we reject an entry we email you and say why. That is not permanent: fix the problem and you can enter the same product again with the same address.

We check that a link works when you submit it and again when a person reviews it. We do not monitor it continuously afterwards.

9. What we do not promise

Nothing about the outcome. Not that you will be drawn, and not what happens if you are. Being drawn means your product goes out to the email list and gets posted on X. It does not promise traffic, sign-ups, sales, coverage or attention of any kind, and we make no claim about how many people will open, read or click anything.

The draw is random. A large board means longer odds, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

The site is provided as it is. We try to keep it running and correct, and we cannot promise it is always available or free of faults.

10. Changing or stopping the draw

We may change these rules, or stop running the draw. If we do, we will say so on this page with a new date at the top, and email the list. A change will not be applied retroactively to a draw that has already settled. If we stop, any draw already running will either be settled normally or cancelled with an explanation — we will not simply leave it open.

11. Your rights as a consumer

Nothing here removes any right you have under UK law that cannot be signed away. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.

12. Getting in touch

Email draws@stubbers.app. A person reads it. How we handle your data is set out separately in the privacy policy.