outbid.lol turned a three-hour build into $139,041 in 65 hours and a few hundred clones. This is the field guide to all of them — grouped by the mechanic they actually changed, not by who shouted loudest.
Compiled from press coverage, the clone directories, and search results indexing X posts from the launch week. x.com itself could not be read directly, so quoted numbers are those the sources report, not figures we measured.
Nothing matches that.
The board that started it, and its own rulebook.
the originaloutbid.lol
ranks products, apps and X profiles
Rank equals total dollars paid, cumulatively. Whole dollars, $5 minimum, $1 increments, $999,999 cap. Nothing expires, nothing is refunded, and taking #1 costs at least $5 more than the current top bid. No accounts, no ads, no revenue share.
The original mechanic, re-domained. Rank is total dollars paid, nothing expires. Also the group with the flattest traffic curves — see guide 07.
ranks websites
Your rank is your lifetime total and anyone can pay a dollar more to take it. The first spot cost $1; each new #1 costs $1 more than the last.
ranks products
Overbid everyone and take #1. No ads, no API keys, no revenue share -- the original's positioning, near-verbatim.
ranks anything
A live leaderboard where you bid real dollars to climb the rankings.
ranks companies
Framed as a digital billboard rather than a leaderboard: position is bought, not given. Pay what you like and hold the rank until someone pays more.
ranks listings
A permanent pay-to-rank leaderboard — placements do not expire.
ranks listings
Pay to be #1. The mechanic with the marketing stripped out.
ranks listings
Bid your way to the top. Notable mainly as the near-miss domain play on the original.
A bid is a balance that drains, so #1 comes back into reach. Converts one-time payments into recurring ones and manufactures the urgency a static board only has while trending.
ranks products
A 100-slot board where payments set a live value, repeat payments top it up, and every value drops 5% a day. Also maintains an "Outbid & friends" list.
ranks sites and X handles
Highest bid wins #1, from $5. The first 24 hours are shielded, then your value decays until someone outbids you — so the war never stops. Outbid or top up to climb.
ranks products
A bid is a balance that drains with time *and* with every click it earns, so the top spot comes back into reach instead of climbing out of it. Also publishes a live tracker of what #1 on outbid.lol currently costs.
Lowest unique bid, or undercutting. Removes the richest-founder-wins feel — and can edge into gambling law. See guide 06.
ranks products
Lowest unique bid takes the top, Dutch-style undercutting below it. Turns the board into a puzzle and removes the richest-founder-wins feel. Also the variant most likely to be a game of chance in your jurisdiction.
Position becomes a place instead of a row number. Scarcity is built into the geography rather than the price.
ranks companies, by country
Your company colour appears on the world map until someone pays 1.5x to take it from you. No refunds. The multiplier is the whole design.
ranks countries
Outbid the competition to claim the #1 sovereign spot in any country on an interactive world map. 190-odd #1 spots instead of one.
Same mechanic, different audience. The most durable direction, because a niche brings its own buyers.
ranks X accounts
A public leaderboard of X accounts ranked by one thing — how much you have paid to be on it.
ranks newsletters
Bid for the inbox. Your amount decides the rank, and paying under the #1 price still places you wherever that bid can reach.
ranks SEO experts, agencies and apps
A pay-to-rank leaderboard for the SEO industry, aimed at its own buyers.
ranks vibecoded apps and SaaS
A battlefield for vibecoded apps and SaaS. Founders pay to rank; you outbid them to take their spot.
nsfwtopless.lol
ranks adult creator links
The adult-creator edition — OnlyFans, Fansly and fan-page links instead of startups. Two things differ from the original: every rank is a distinct dollar amount, so a bid that is already taken is refused rather than tie-broken by timestamp, and the board is quoted in USD while Brazilian buyers are charged in BRL at a fixed rate.
ranks products, LATAM
The LATAM edition — Spanish, and pesos. The clearest example of the one clone direction that reliably works: same mechanic, an audience the original was never going to reach.
Boards where the thing you spend is not a bid, or the thing you win is not a row.
ranks listings
Randomised coupon codes against locked prices on a limited board. Cost is capped and known upfront and your position cannot be outbid — which also means the only variable left is whether the site itself gets any attention.
ranks sites
Likes are the only currency — the most-liked announcement tweet holds #1, and listing is free. The one board in the wave that takes no money at all.
ranks panels on a physical car
SaaS companies buy panel space on a real Lamborghini Urus. Bid $50k, wear a quarter of the car. The mechanic applied to an object rather than a row.
Money sets the floor and referred visitors multiply it, so a small payment that brings an audience outranks a large one that brings none. The only direction where the listings themselves supply the board's traffic rather than the operator having to.
ranks products, apps and X profiles
Rank is the amount paid multiplied by the unique visitors the listing itself referred, so $10 that brought 200 people outranks $25 that brought nobody. Every 100 referred visitors adds 1x, capped at 3x, and money alone cannot reach the top. A visitor counts once per listing forever, crawlers and link previews never count, and a listing can bank at most 250 a day.
The layer that appeared within days. Absurd, and it worked, because the audience was already assembled.
ranks the wave itself
A hand-updated live directory of the bid-site wave, which is itself bidding out its own spots. Free to read and independent.
ranks pay-to-rank leaderboards
A leaderboard of pay-to-rank leaderboards, ranked by how much they pay.
ranks bid sites
A directory of bidding sites, ranked by bid.
ranks clones, by quality
Lists the copycats, cheap clones, ghost towns and weird map ones. Three seats at the top are for sale, on the one rule the genre runs on.
ranks bid-based leaderboards
A directory of bid-based leaderboard sites. Free to list, pay to be featured — the freemium version of the mechanic.
ranks every outbid.lol clone
Groups the clones by what they rank rather than by bid.
ranks boards, live and dead
The largest tracker of the wave, and the only one that says which boards are still up.
Domains named in launch-week roundups with no description anyone could source. Listed so the record is complete — we do not invent mechanics to fill the gap. Know one? A sourced description promotes it into the groups above.
topx.loltweetbid.lolxme.loldontbid.lolundercut.lolupbid.loloutbids.lolrankbid.lolbidanything.lolwhosetheboss.lolclaimrank.lolwatchbid.loltakeone.lolspots.lollandgrab.lolbidfast.lolaistartups.lolbidking.lolbidding.loltinybid.loliamtherichest.lolindiehackers.loloutflex.lolranky.loltopspot.soOn these links. A snapshot of a genre that moved in days; entries are community-submitted and unverified. Domains here go dark quickly, and every one of them takes non-refundable money from strangers. Listing a board is not an endorsement, a safety check, or advice to bid on it.
Everyone who has landed a commit — the list is read straight from the git history at build time, so anyone who contributes shows up here automatically on the next deploy. Add a board and you are on it.
