Arrivals

Ad spots in a grid. When the grid is full it doubles, and so does the starting price.

Why it works: Supply doubles with demand, and price doubles with supply.

Last vote owns the homepage. One dollar a vote, a different game every evening.

Why it works: Timing instead of amount: the last dollar wins, not the biggest.

Buy a key on the internet’s keyboard. The first key is free, the rest start at $1.

Why it works: A fixed, familiar grid (a keyboard) as the inventory.

Bid for ad space on a real T-shirt. $9 so far.

Why it works: The wedding suit idea without the wedding or the audience.

The iPhone home screen anyone can buy. Dock spots by auction, from $1.

Why it works: A home screen as the grid; the dock is the scarce row.

Digital magnets on a shared fridge door, $1 to $999. What you pay decides where you stick.

Why it works: A fridge door as the board. $7.

One dollar is one centimetre, and it goes soft by one centimetre an hour unless you pay again.

Why it works: Decay as the mechanic: the rank rots unless you keep paying. The joke is the whole product.

Highest bid wins. You hire. I deliver. A backend engineer auctions his next job.

Why it works: Not a board of products but a person: the winner gets the right to hire him, and every sale raises the next price.

The domain was appraised at $19,827. He added a zero. Every dollar on the leaderboard chips it off the price.

Why it works: A leaderboard and a domain sale fused into one self-dissolving auction.

A permanent rank from $1 sold $610. Ten $50-a-month banners sold zero.

Why it works: The one-time impulse product sells; the monthly one does not. Both on one page.

Launched one day after Brand My Mac. One of ten spots taken, $49 of $2,299.

Why it works: Copied the format within a day, without the press and without the refund rule.

Ten laptop spots plus eight backpack patches rented by the month. $0 so far.

Why it works: Added a recurring product (backpack patches) to the one-off format. Nothing sold yet.

One $500 spot on the flap, everyone else shares a QR code ranked by what they paid. $34.

Why it works: The fixed $500 flap spot stayed empty; the $1 QR ranking made $34.

Ten sticker spots on a MacBook lid, auctioned before the laptop was bought.

Why it works: Sold the lid before owning the laptop. Press was the multiplier, not the launch post.

Logo slots on a Tesla Model Y with live GPS, for the life of the car. Three of 19 sold.

Why it works: The template for Brand My Mac, with fixed prices instead of an auction. Fixed prices sold 3 of 19 slots; the auction sold 10 of 10 in two days.

The paid ranking of French startups. Your rank is what you paid, from 30 cents.

Why it works: Same product, same week, same rule: the French page made 2,687 € and the English twin $21.60. The scene is the product.

A Monopoly-style board where every square costs one dollar more than the last owner paid.

Why it works: Clicks as rent is a real idea; the board had five paying squares after four days.

Startups stake countries on a spinning globe. Product Hunt top five, $965.

Why it works: Product Hunt top five and a creator with 30 followers added up to $965.

Pay from $39, rank by what you paid, and get a real backlink from a domain rating of 71.

Why it works: The only board whose top spot holds around $200 instead of $25, because the backlink has a measurable SEO value.

A bid leaderboard for the e-commerce scene, in euros, plus a 19 € banner per week.

Why it works: A vertical (e-commerce) on the mechanic, with a clean payment history from day one.

Buy a plot in a 3D city and an AI draws your building. Downtown costs $999.

Why it works: A city instead of a list, and a $1,000,000 tier as the joke.

One company owns the whole page until someone pays $3 more. Visitors bet on how long the reign lasts.

Why it works: Inventory of exactly one, a fixed $3 step, and a public reign clock. Four takeovers in five days.

204 countries at fixed prices, $1 for Vatican City, $30 for the United States.

Why it works: Fixed prices instead of an auction on the same globe idea as warmap.lol: $188 against $7,394 in the same week.

A treemap where the size of your tile is what you paid.

Why it works: Money as area instead of a rank number.

100 places at $25 flat. The newest purchase takes the top row and pushes everyone down.

Why it works: Recency instead of price decides the rank. The price was raised mid-wave at 30 percent occupancy.

A shared wall of posters. Paste over anyone’s poster for 1.5 times its price.

Why it works: Displacement in space instead of a rank in a list. Tiny, but the pasting-over is named and timed.

Every bid is a building, your money is the height, and anyone can outbuild you.

Why it works: The most transparent board in the wave: a public receipt list per payment. 22,000 followers produced $207.

Buy a country on a world map. Anyone can take it for 1.5 times your bid.

Why it works: Forced escalation: every takeover is 50 percent dearer than the last, and being thrown out of a country is a post.

One link. Pay one dollar more than the last owner and it is yours until someone does the same.

Why it works: One slot, one owner, and a public list of everyone who lost it. The buyer gets clicks at a price that competes with paid ads.

A share of a digital billboard on a real Lamborghini, for the life of the car. One sponsor so far.

Why it works: One sponsor, $25,000, and it may be the creator’s own company. The visible counter shows $0 until JavaScript runs; the real value sits in an accessibility attribute.

Bid to rank your own X profile. Clicks are ephemeral, followers are forever.

Why it works: The audience consists of people who want to be ranked, not people who buy. 54,600 visitors, $751.

A bid board that ranks the other bid boards. Last payment: 26 August.

Why it works: The feed with timestamps is the clearest signal in the whole wave: payments stopped on 26 August.

Rank bids for vibe-coded apps from $1. "Every app below paid real money for its rank."

Why it works: A niche (vibe-coded apps) on the same mechanic.

The same auction for iOS apps. 34,000 views, $2,000.

Why it works: Second-weakest visitor-to-revenue ratio after xme.lol.

A leaderboard of AI models, ranked by how much fans paid into each one.

Why it works: Cumulative instead of competitive, and frozen after two days.

One million pixels at ten cents, in ten price waves. Same idea as 1milllionpixels, same week, $111.

Why it works: The cleanest A/B test in the list: same product as 1milllionpixels, same week, a factor of 275 in revenue. The difference is distribution.

The same rank mechanic, with the money going to charity. One purchase in a week.

Why it works: The same mechanic that made five figures elsewhere that week made $4.30 when the money went to charity. Pure status sells; charitable status does not.

Bigger bid, better position. Plus a $150-a-month sponsor slot that three companies actually bought.

Why it works: The only board in the wave that sells a subscription next to the bids, and the subscription is what makes it recurring.

No algorithm, no votes, no reviews. Your position is the sum of everything you ever paid.

Why it works: A counter that states its own time window ("in 122h"), which most boards do not.

A copy of outbid.lol that reached $735.28 and went offline within a week.

Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.

A copy of outbid.lol with no recorded sale, offline within a week.

Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.

No evidence on file yet, so the figure is an estimate.

A copy of outbid.lol that reached $14 and went offline within a week.

Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.

A copy of outbid.lol that reached $60 and went offline within a week.

Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.

A copy of outbid.lol that reached $36 and went offline within a week.

Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.

A copy of outbid.lol that reached $30 and went offline within a week.

Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.

A copy of outbid.lol that reached $24 and went offline within a week.

Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.

A copy of outbid.lol that reached $21 and went offline within a week.

Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.

Ranks expire after 24 hours unless you pay another dollar. Renamed after eight days.

Why it works: Expiry was meant to force repeat payments. It produced $109.

The auction for iOS and macOS apps. Top bid $172, then nothing moved.

Why it works: Sold in the first two days, then stopped.

Free listings allowed, paid from $1. 115 entries, $178.

Why it works: The free option and the $1 floor destroy every price anchor: 115 entries, $178.

A leaderboard on a 1995 domain: $226 takes first place in any category, badge included.

Why it works: A premium domain and a badge instead of a joke. 40 followers, $905.

A public list where the highest bid holds the top spot until someone pays more.

Why it works: The people who get pushed down post about it. The losers do the marketing, and the ledger makes every loss visible.

Ten sponsor slots on a directory that had 80,000 views before it had a sponsor page.

Why it works: Traffic first, then scarcity on ten slots. The price went from $299 to $2,500 in one month without a single ad for the ads.