The internet remembers the winners. We track the rest.
Every project here failed, stopped or disappeared. They are the same kind of data point as the winners. Usually a better one, because nobody else keeps them.
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.
Creatorn/aLaunched21 Aug 2026 → 27 Aug 2026 · 6 days activeRevenue$735 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseUnknown · Found offline on 27 August 2026 (a DNS failure). The only dead copy with a meaningful figure; why the domain was dropped is not documented.
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outoutbid.lol directory: last published figure · $735 · source
A copy of outbid.lol with no recorded sale, offline within a week.
Why it works: Same mechanic, no audience, gone within a week.
Creatorn/aLaunched21 Aug 2026 → 27 Aug 2026 · 6 days activeRevenue$0 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseNever found buyers · Found offline on 27 August 2026 (HTTP 404).
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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.
Creatorn/aLaunched21 Aug 2026 → 27 Aug 2026 · 6 days activeRevenue$14 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseNever found buyers · Found offline on 27 August 2026 (HTTP 404).
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outoutbid.lol directory: last published figure · $14 · source
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.
Creatorn/aLaunched21 Aug 2026 → 27 Aug 2026 · 6 days activeRevenue$60 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseNever found buyers · Found offline on 27 August 2026 (a DNS failure).
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outoutbid.lol directory: last published figure · $60 · source
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.
Creatorn/aLaunched21 Aug 2026 → 27 Aug 2026 · 6 days activeRevenue$36 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseNever found buyers · Found offline on 27 August 2026 (HTTP 421).
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outoutbid.lol directory: last published figure · $36 · source
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.
Creatorn/aLaunched21 Aug 2026 → 27 Aug 2026 · 6 days activeRevenue$30 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseNever found buyers · Found offline on 27 August 2026 (a DNS failure).
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outoutbid.lol directory: last published figure · $30 · source
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.
Creatorn/aLaunched21 Aug 2026 → 27 Aug 2026 · 6 days activeRevenue$24 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseNever found buyers · Found offline on 27 August 2026 (a DNS failure).
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TrustMRR: $134 all-time, $19 in the last 30 days, $16.50 MRR from 2 subscriptions, Stripe-verified · $134 · source
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.
Creatorn/aLaunched21 Aug 2026 → 27 Aug 2026 · 6 days activeRevenue$21 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseNever found buyers · Found offline on 27 August 2026 (a DNS failure).
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outoutbid.lol directory: last published figure · $21 · source
The naming rights of a privately owned alley in San Francisco, auctioned once.
Why it works: Exactly one thing to sell, a hard deadline, and two tech companies bidding against each other in public.
CreatorRiley Walz (with Theo Bleier and Patrick Hultquist) @rtwlzLaunched2 Apr 2026 → 7 Apr 2026 · 5 days activeRevenue$140,000 USDVerifiedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseSold out · The auction closed as planned. The name will never be auctioned again, so there is nothing left to sell.
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SF Standard: Notion wins with $140,000; Automattic bid $135,000 · $140,000 · source
Twenty-six logo slots on a wedding tuxedo. The sponsors paid for the suit.
Why it works: The existing audience did the selling; the wedding was the content. The suit was paid for and deductible.
CreatorDagobert Renouf @dagorenouf · 116,000 followersLaunched24 Jul 2025 → 25 Oct 2025 · 93 days activeRevenue$12,000 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseSold out · All 26 slots sold and the suit was worn at the wedding on 25 October 2025. The end was the plan.
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South China Morning Post: about $12,000 gross, 2,300 € net · $12,000 · source
A vlogger in Kerala rented his bald head to a hair clinic for three months: 50,000 rupees.
Why it works: The head was the hook; the 28,000 subscribers were the product.
CreatorShafeek Hashim @70mmvlogs · 28,000 followersLaunched8 Feb 2025 → 8 May 2025 · 89 days activeRevenue$575 USDClaimedPost views0 public views of tracked posts, 30 daysCauseSold out · The three-month contract ran its course. No second client is documented. End date is the contract length counted from the first report.
11 projects · combined peak revenue $153k · median lifetime 6 days · most common cause Never found buyersWhy this matters
Why the money stopped
Never found buyers: Almost nobody paid, from the first day on. The idea never had a market. Interest faded: It sold while people were talking about it. When the attention moved on, the sales stopped. Sold out: Everything it had to sell was sold. The end was the plan, not a failure. Copied to death: Copies flooded in and took the buyers. The original lost the search term and the crowd. Creator quit: People were still buying, but the person behind it walked away: burnout, a new project, a job. Shut down by others: Someone else ended it: a platform, a payment provider, a landlord, a lawyer.
How a project gets here
Automatically when the site is offline for 14 days or nothing changes for 60 days, or by hand when the creator announces the end. We then record why the money stopped. Peak revenue, lifetime and the last known counter value stay on record. Rules in detail.