What's next
The pay-to-rank wave of August 2026 is over its peak: 355 boards, three of them holding most of the money, twenty already gone. What comes next is not one new mechanic but several shifts in the logic, each tried by a handful of sites. Below, each shift in a few sentences, then what the measured money says about it. Figures are read from the same database as the boards, as of Oct 4, 2026.
How the logic is shifting
Ordered by measured revenue. Sites we do not track yet are named with their source and carry no figure, because they publish none.
Pay to rank
$301k measured across 32 tracked projects, 1 in another currency not in that sumWhat is sold. A public list where the price is the position.
What is different. The original of 19 August 2026 and its clones: the same mechanic in a narrower room, a different currency, a different country.
What would prove it. The median clone, not the original. The original holds most of the money; the question is whether any second board ever will.
Strongest tracked project: outbid.lol, $259,971 USD, Public counter. 8 of 32 already dead.
Not tracked yet- aistartups.lol: AI tools only, 117 listings, the census reports $148. source
Leave the screen
$280k measured across 12 tracked projects, 2 in another currency not in that sumWhat is sold. A surface in the world: a laptop lid, a car, a backpack, a body.
What is different. The inventory is fixed by the object, so it sells out instead of filling up, and the buyer is seen where the object goes.
What would prove it. Whether the second object sells as well as the first. A car has 62 panels, a face has one, and a copy needs its own car.
Strongest tracked project: The Million Dollar Toilet, $127,500 USD, Public counter.
Not tracked yet- brandmyass.site: Nine placements at $125 to $500, a temporary tattoo on a real person, live auction. No total published. source
Give the money away
$10k measured across 2 tracked projectsWhat is sold. A rank that costs the same, but the money goes to trees, to a charity, or back to the top three.
What is different. The board keeps a cut or nothing. The buyer gets the rank and a reason that sounds better than vanity.
What would prove it. Whether buyers pay for the cause or for the rank, and whether a promised share is ever paid out.
Strongest tracked project: outbid.green, $9,956 USD, Verified. 1 of 2 already dead.
Not tracked yet- theget.lol: The top three ranks are to split 30 percent of platform revenue once it reaches $100,000. Four days old on 4 September 2026, 136 visitors, no figure. source
Measure the wave
$10 measured across 1 tracked projectWhat is sold. Tools on top of the boards: a board of boards, a price per click across every board, a census with a graveyard.
What is different. The customers are the operators and their bidders, not the public. The income is sponsor slots, the same slot this site sells.
What would prove it. Whether operators pay to be measured. Weird Revenue belongs in this group and lives by the same question.
Strongest tracked project: outbidception.lol, $10 USD, Public counter.
Not tracked yet- biddinghub.io: Cost per click for every slot on every board, refreshed hourly; the maker replies to operators with their own price per click. source
- outbid.fyi: 355 boards on file, $359,600 lifetime across them, sponsor slots at $150 a month. Its figures are unverified by its own statement. source
- lolhub.lol: A second census, domains only. source
Time instead of money
Nothing tracked yetWhat is sold. A minute of the day, or seconds of attention, as the thing that ranks.
What is different. Money becomes optional or disappears. A visitor who stays on the page scores for a startup; a minute of the homepage costs a euro.
What would prove it. Whether anyone pays for a minute nobody sees. Attention that costs nothing is worth exactly that until someone buys it.
Not tracked yet- owntime.lol: The 1,440 minutes of a day, each unclaimed minute from 1 euro; the homepage shows the owner’s product during that minute. Launched 3 September 2026, 104 visitors a day. source
- afkbid.lol: One second on the page is one point for the startup you root for; paying buys time. 54 listings. The census reports $1,873 collected, the page shows $591. source
- 15minsoffame.lol: A queue. Everyone gets fifteen minutes, 1,079 served by 4 September 2026, no money changes hands. source
Merit instead of money
Nothing tracked yetWhat is sold. A rank from data nobody can buy: domain authority, referring domains, mobile speed.
What is different. The board refuses payment for the rank. Its only income is an optional listing tier at $39.99 or $49.99.
What would prove it. Whether a free board pays for itself, and whether anyone screenshots a rank they did not buy.
Not tracked yet- highest.lol: Free to enter, ranked on SEO data only, the maker posts new entries daily. No figure published. source
What the measured money says
$592k across 47 tracked projects in these six groups. Only dollars are summed; there is no exchange rate we could cite.
| Shift | Projects | Live | Dead | Measured | Median | Strongest project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay to rank | 32 | 24 | 8 | $301k | $751 | outbid.lol · $259,971 USD · Public counter |
| Leave the screen | 12 | 12 | 0 | $280k | $3,170 | The Million Dollar Toilet · $127,500 USD · Public counter |
| Give the money away | 2 | 1 | 1 | $10k | $9,956 | outbid.green · $9,956 USD · Verified |
| Measure the wave | 1 | 1 | 0 | $10 | $10 | outbidception.lol · $10 USD · Public counter |
| Time instead of money | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | none tracked |
| Merit instead of money | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a | none tracked |
A zero means no tracked project in that group has a measured figure. The sites named under "not tracked yet" would change that the moment one of them publishes a counter or a verified account. Then it goes on the board like everything else, with its proof level.