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What is exchanged
Value Proposition CanvasA rank on a list of other bid boards, with a click counter. $1,233 over 59 listings.
biddirectory.lol
biddirectory.lol ↗ · launched 21 Aug 2026 · 7 days so far
Damon Chen (PDF.ai, Testimonial.to) built a board on which the boards of the wave rank each other: "overtake for $X" is the current bid plus one dollar, capped at $100 above the leader. 59 listings and 10,247 clicks by 28 August 2026; outbid.lol itself sits there with a $1 bid and 1,083 clicks. The public feed shows the last payment on 26 August at 14:01 UTC. Third place is outoutbid.lol with the comment "Sorry I had to do it!".
Last 24 hours
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n/a · from snapshots
Last 7 days
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Post views
0
public views of tracked posts, 30 days
Peak revenue
$1,233
highest figure on record
Revenue over time 3 snapshots · cumulative
First 24 h n/a · peak revenue $1,233
Social attention impressions per day
Latest day: n/a impressions · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · 0 visits
Status the rules
Growing Slow but steady revenue growth.
Revenue went up at least 5 percent in the last 7 days and the site is online.
Revenue history
First 24 hoursn/aPeak$1,233Days active7Snapshots3 daily
In one sentence editorial
The feed with timestamps is the clearest signal in the whole wave: payments stopped on 26 August.
Public outbiddingAbsurdity
The facts A rank on a list
A public list where your position is what you paid. Whoever pays more pushes you down.
What is soldA rank on a listPrice forms byPay-to-rank, no endLives onOwn websiteHow oftenNever endsNext buyer viaThe outbid post about it · taxonomyMonetizationPay-to-rank for pay-to-rank boardsPricingCurrent bid plus $1, capped at $100 above the leaderGoalNone statedInventoryUnlimited; 59 listingsLaunch platformXCore mechanicRecursion as the jokeRepeatableYes, it can sell again
How the mechanism works, and why it works here 7 of 7 blocks · the schema
Every project is taken apart with the same seven questions, each borrowed from a standard analysis tool, so you can compare this one with any other on the board. The funnel numbers come from the daily snapshots, not from the creator.
Post views, 30 days
0
public view counts of tracked posts
Website visits (creator-provided)
0
no visit data
Revenue, 30 days
$0
no visit data
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How the price forms
Pricing mechanism analysisCurrent bid plus one dollar, capped at $100 above the leader to stop runaway jumps.
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Supply and scarcity
Scarcity and inventory analysisUnlimited.
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Growth loop
Viral loop analysisThe boards list themselves for the clicks (outbid.lol got 1,083 clicks from a $1 bid).
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Defensibility
Moat and clone analysisThe recursion is the joke, and jokes do not hold.
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What can kill it
Failure mode analysisThe public feed shows the last payment on 26 August, five days after launch.
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Why it works here
Editorial verdictUseful mostly as a clock: its feed shows when the wave stopped paying.
Evidence · 1 items
27 Aug 2026
Counter on the project website
Stats endpoint /api/stats: 59 listings, $1,233 in bids, 10,247 clicks · reported revenue: $1,233 · biddirectory.lol (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
What happened 2 events
- Counter changed: Last payment in the public feedNothing new by 28 August 2026.
- Launched: Domain registered
Daily snapshots latest 10 of 3
| Date | Revenue | Reach | Impressions | Likes | Reposts | Replies | Visits (creator) | Online |
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| 28 Aug 2026 | $1,233 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | yes |
| 28 Aug 2026 | $1,233 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | yes |
| 27 Aug 2026 | $1,233 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | yes |
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