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What is exchanged
Value Proposition CanvasStartups buy a country on a world map. Their logo colours the country, their link sits on it, and clicks are counted (31,557 by 27 August). What they buy is territory and a fight over it.
warmap.lol
warmap.lol ↗ · launched 21 Aug 2026 · 7 days so far
Ahmed Gagan, 18, launched the map two days after outbid.lol. Instead of rows there are 194 countries, and instead of a one-dollar step a takeover costs one and a half times the current bid, with no refunds. All 194 territories were claimed within a week. Of all the copies of outbid.lol this is the one that changed the rule, and the only one in our sample that kept growing after the first weekend. Payments run through Dodo Payments.
Last 24 hours
+$3,946
+114.4 % · from snapshots
Last 7 days
n/a
n/a · from snapshots
Post views
0
public views of tracked posts, 30 days
Peak revenue
$7,394
highest figure on record
Revenue over time 6 snapshots · cumulative
First 24 h $2,098 · peak revenue $7,394
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 hours$2,098Peak$7,394Days active7Snapshots6 daily
In one sentence editorial
Forced escalation: every takeover is 50 percent dearer than the last, and being thrown out of a country is a post.
Public outbiddingScarcityParticipation
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 on a world mapPricingMinimum 3 to 25 dollars per country; a takeover costs 1.5 times the current bid; no refunds; the whole world for $5,000GoalNone statedInventory194 countries, all claimed by 27 August 2026Launch platformXCore mechanicForced escalation plus a visible mapRepeatableYes, 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)
28k
no visit data
Revenue, 30 days
$5.3k
$0.19 per visit
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How the price forms
Pricing mechanism analysisMinimum bids of 3 to 25 dollars per country, and a takeover costs one and a half times the current bid, no refunds. Every change of hands raises the price by 50 percent, so the bidders escalate each other without the owner touching anything.
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Supply and scarcity
Scarcity and inventory analysisAll 194 countries were claimed within a week, but every one can be taken again, so supply never runs out. The last recorded takeover was Venezuela for $14.
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Growth loop
Viral loop analysisBeing thrown out of a country is visible and personal, and the map is a picture worth posting. Taken-over owners come back to retake; that is where the growth after the first weekend came from.
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Defensibility
Moat and clone analysisThe one rule change: 1.5 times instead of one dollar more. TrustMRR verified $9,003 through the Stripe API, more than any other copy of outbid.lol. The creator has under 4,000 followers, so the audience was not the reason.
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What can kill it
Failure mode analysisThe wave cooling around it, takeovers becoming too expensive so the map freezes, and no refunds making the losers angry rather than eager.
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Why it works here
Editorial verdictThe only copy in our sample that kept growing, and the only one that changed the rule. Forced escalation did what a one-dollar step could not.
Evidence · 5 items
28 Aug 2026
Public transaction record
TrustMRR: $7,394 attributable to warmap.lol (August 2026), $9,017 all-time on the account, verified through the Dodo Payments API · reported revenue: $7,394 · trustmrr.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
27 Aug 2026
Public transaction record
TrustMRR: $9,003 all-time, $7,387 in the last 30 days · reported revenue: $9,003 · trustmrr.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026) · The connected payment account carries $1,623 from May to July 2026, before the domain existed (registered 21 August). Only the 30-day figure is attributable.
27 Aug 2026
Counter on the project website
State endpoint /api/state, read by Weird Revenue: plundered_cents 717200 · reported revenue: $7,172 · warmap.lol (blocks automated checks, last tried 28 Aug 2026) · 31,557 clicks, 28,304 visitors, 53 people online at the time of reading.
23 Aug 2026
Article by a third party
outoutbid.lol directory reading · reported revenue: $3,448 · outoutbid.lol (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
22 Aug 2026
Public transaction record
TrustMRR: $2,098 in the first 24 hours, 169 transactions from 102 companies · reported revenue: $2,098 · trustmrr.com (reachable, checked 28 Aug 2026)
What happened 2 events
- Counter changed: Last takeover before 28 August: Venezuela for $14The previous owner was pushed out.
- Launched: Domain registered and launched
Daily snapshots latest 10 of 6
| Date | Revenue | Reach | Impressions | Likes | Reposts | Replies | Visits (creator) | Online |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026 | $7,394 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | no |
| 28 Aug 2026 | $7,394 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | no |
| 28 Aug 2026 | $7,394 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | yes |
| 27 Aug 2026 | $7,172 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 28304 | yes |
| 23 Aug 2026 | $3,448 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | yes |
| 22 Aug 2026 | $2,098 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | yes |
Related A rank on a list
Same mechanic
- epenis.lol: One dollar is one centimetre, and it goes soft by one centimetre an hour unless you pay again.
- aurafry.com: A permanent rank from $1 sold $610. Ten $50-a-month banners sold zero.
- Premier de la Classe: The paid ranking of French startups. Your rank is what you paid, from 30 cents.
- landlords.lol: A Monopoly-style board where every square costs one dollar more than the last owner paid.
- worldmap.lol: Startups stake countries on a spinning globe. Product Hunt top five, $965.