What are Seasons
Before Seasons existed, Rankings had a structural fairness problem: whoever joined Snikus earliest had months of accumulated followers, likes, and posts that no brand-new startup could realistically catch up to, no matter how good the idea or how hard the founder worked. Seasons exist specifically to fix that. A Season is a repeating competitive period where every startup — whether it's been on Snikus for a year or was created five minutes ago — starts at exactly zero on the competitive Rankings page.
How long is a Season?
| Season | Length |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | 1 week |
| Season 2 | 3 weeks |
| Season 3 | 1 month |
| Season 4 and every Season after it | 2 months |
The early Seasons are intentionally short. That's not arbitrary — it means the Hall of Founders (see "The Hall of Founders, explained") fills up with real Champions quickly, so founders who join in Snikus's first few weeks get a genuine, achievable shot at a permanent spot in the record, instead of waiting months for the very first crown to be handed out. From Season 4 onward, the length settles permanently at 2 months — Seasons never get any longer than that, no matter how many have happened before.
What resets, and what absolutely doesn't
Only the competitive Season score, shown on the Rankings page, resets to zero when a new Season starts. Nothing else about your startup is affected:
- Your all-time score (on your own profile) is untouched.
- Your posts, followers, badges, and everything else you've built stay exactly as they are.
- Your position in the Hall of Founders, if you've ever earned one, is permanent — a new Season starting doesn't erase a past Season's Champion.
Seasons only ever decide who's currently winning the live competition — never a judgment on what you've actually built over time.
How This Week / This Month / This Season relate to each other
Rankings shows three tabs — This Week, This Month, This Season — and all three are always nested inside each other: whatever counts for This Week also counts for This Month, and whatever counts for This Month also counts for This Season. None of the three windows can ever start earlier than the current Season itself, even right at the very start of a new Season, so the numbers always make intuitive sense next to each other.
Frequently asked
When exactly does a Season end?
Right at the boundary computed from the Season lengths above — there's no grace period, and no way to "extend" a Season. A celebration banner appears on the Rankings page for 24 hours after a Season closes, announcing that Season's Champion before the leaderboard moves fully into the new Season.
What happens to a startup created mid-Season?
It joins the current Season immediately and competes on exactly the same terms as every other startup already in it — there's no partial-Season penalty or catch-up mechanic needed, since Season scoring only counts activity that happens during the Season anyway.