Community rules
Keep the board useful, honest and fun.
These rules apply to every listing and reaction on YallaMashoor. They protect MENA founders from manipulation and keep discovery useful for everyone.
Publishing and ranking
- Publish for a one-time $1 payment or for free by placing the official YallaMashoor badge on your website and passing manual review.
- Neither publishing method buys placement, votes, traffic or a guaranteed position.
- The same ranking calculation applies to every published listing.
Listings with the same score are ordered by publication time. The “This Week”, “This Month” and “All Time” views filter which launches are being compared; YallaMashoor does not sell ranking boosts.
What you can list
- A legitimate startup, product, SaaS application, mobile app, digital service or developer project.
- A listing built by a MENA-based founder or team, or meaningfully built for customers in the MENA region.
- An official public website, App Store, Google Play, GitHub or comparable product page.
- A product or organization that you own or are authorized to represent.
- Optional social profiles that genuinely belong to the submitted product or organization.
Your name, tagline, category and links must describe the destination accurately. Do not impersonate another company, founder or project. Listings that do not meet the MENA eligibility requirement may be removed during moderation.
What is prohibited
- Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, Messenger or similar group-chat and invite links as the primary listing.
- Pornographic, sexual, NSFW or other adult-oriented products and services.
- Phishing, malware, scams, deceptive claims, unlawful services or content that infringes third-party rights.
- Spam, automated voting, coordinated manipulation or attempts to evade moderation.
- Abusive, discriminatory, threatening or deliberately harmful reaction content.
URLs and duplicates
Use a stable, direct HTTPS destination wherever possible. The same submitted product URL may appear only once, and tracking parameters or alternate spellings must not be used to create duplicate listings.
Store and marketplace links are treated as distinct products by their full path. YallaMashoor may correct, consolidate or remove duplicate, misleading or broken destinations.
Community reactions
Signed-in members can leave one Toast, Meh or Roast per listing. The product name and tagline are used to generate a short editorial reaction, which the member reviews before publishing.
- Toast celebrates what is compelling about the product.
- Meh offers balanced, constructive skepticism.
- Roast uses playful satire about the product or positioning—not the people behind it.
AI-generated text is not exempt from these rules. Authors remain responsible for choosing to publish a reaction, and YallaMashoor may hide content that crosses the line.
Moderation and enforcement
YallaMashoor may hide or remove listings and reactions that violate these rules, and may suspend accounts that repeatedly abuse the service. Existing legitimate content is not automatically hidden when an account is suspended.
Paid submissions are final and non-refundable except where applicable law requires otherwise. Badge listings must keep the approved badge visible and linked correctly while using the free publishing option.
These Rules work together with our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.