Live tracker · observed 2026-08-29
Boards
10
Observed
$248,710
On one board
96.8%
Median
$2.50
STOPBIDDING.LOLTracker for pay-to-rank sites
The bidding bubble / day 10Every figure links to its source

STOP PAYING
TO BE SEEN.

Attention is not merit.STOPBIDDING.LOL

The bidding bubble is 10 days old. 10 boards, $248,710 of publicly stated spend, and 97% of it sitting on outbid.lol. Every figure here was read off the boards' own pages, with a link back to where.

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01 / THE POSITION

THE PRICE CAN MOVE.
THE WORK STILL HAS TO MATTER.

Three things we refuse to confuse.

01

Paying for rank is not earning attention.

A bid can move a name. It cannot make the work matter.

02

A public counter is not a business model.

Revenue theatre hides refunds, acquisition costs, and the silent long tail.

03

Copying the mechanic does not copy the moment.

The clones arrived after novelty, and attention, had already left.

THE SHORT VERSION

Build something people choose.

02Observed totals

The numbers are not subtle.

A snapshot taken on 2026-08-29. These are gross amounts the boards publish about themselves, not profit, valuation, or guaranteed revenue. Confidence travels with every number.

Public amount observed$248,710

Across 10 boards, read from their own pages

01
Left for everyone else$8,035

What the other 9 boards hold combined

02
Median board$2.50

Half the boards are at or below this

03
Made under $1007

70% of the boards tracked

04
Parked, never shipped3

Domain registered, no site ever served

05
03Category shape

The Bidding Bubble

A wave of copycat sites where people pay to move up a public ranking. It started on 2026-08-19 and the distribution was decided almost immediately.

Public amount, to scalePublishes no amount
$240,675
outbid
$7,292
warmap
$690
bidtree
$48
topple
$5
makeitworse
$0
clicktolive
$0
siliconcity
$0
bidstack
$0
climbr
$0
lastplace
outbid.lol holds 96.8% of itthe other 9 boards share $8,035
0110

days old, first registration to now

0296.8%

of the money is on one board

03$2.50

median board

043

registered but never shipped

THE SIGNAL

The leader says it saw at least ten copycats in its first day. By the time those clones registered their domains, the scarce resource was no longer leaderboard space. It was attention, and the original had already spent it.

04What the numbers say

The Real Story

0197%

The winner took nearly everything

outbid.lol launched first and reports $240,675. Every other board in this dataset is competing for what is left.

02$8,035

The clones split the remainder

That is the combined public amount of the other 9 boards. Copying the interface did not copy the distribution.

03$2.50

The median made almost nothing

Half the boards tracked are at or below this. 7 of 10 are under a hundred dollars, and 5 publish no amount at all.

05Tracked boards

Most Money Burned

Every board in the dataset, ranked by the amount it publishes about itself. Search it, sort it, or narrow it to the ones that publish nothing at all.

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10 boards shown$248,710 public amount in view3 never shipped
RankBoardPublic amountTrafficMechanicConfidenceStatus
01Outbidoutbid.lol$240,6751.43M all-timeLeaderboardReportedActive02War Mapwarmap.lol$7,29229.2K all-timeTerritoryReportedActive03Bid Treebidtree.lol$6905,620 outbound clicksCanvasReportedActive04Toppletopple.lol$481,315 sessionsDecayVerifiedActive05Make It Worsemakeitworse.lol$5146 visitors / 24hSabotageVerifiedActive06Click To Liveclicktolive.lol$0—SurvivalUnpublishedActive07Silicon Citysiliconcity.lol$0—OwnershipUnpublishedActive08Bid Stackbidstack.lol$0—LeaderboardDeadDomain parked
See the domains that never shippedOpen archive
06No public amount

The $0 Club

Boards with nothing on the counter. Some are live and simply publish no figure; the rest never served a page at all. Zero here means unproven, not disproven.

$0
MEMBER / 01

clicktolive.lol

Live since Aug 22, 2026 · publishes no total

Active
Case file
$0
MEMBER / 02

siliconcity.lol

Live since Aug 23, 2026 · publishes no total

Active
Case file
$0
MEMBER / 03

bidstack.lol

Registered Aug 22, 2026 · never served

Domain parked
Case file
$0
MEMBER / 04

climbr.lol

Registered Aug 22, 2026 · never served

Domain parked
Case file
$0
MEMBER / 05

lastplace.lol

Registered Aug 24, 2026 · never served

Domain parked
Case file
07 / MECHANICS

At Least These Tried
Something Different

A different rule set did not produce a different outcome. It did make the wave more interesting to study.

01warmap.lol

Territory

1.5xOpen02bidtree.lol

Canvas

TILESOpen03topple.lol

Decay

DECAYOpen04makeitworse.lol

Sabotage

RUINOpen05clicktolive.lol

Survival

00:00Open06siliconcity.lol

Ownership

CITYOpen
08 / GO DEEPER

The dashboard is
only the front page.

Every number links back to the page it was read from. Every record shows its uncertainty.

01Case file

Follow one board from launch to last check.

Mechanic, public amount, confidence, source link, and editorial context in one record.

Open a board
02Archive

Walk through what the wave left behind.

Domains bought during the launch window that never served a page, with their registry records.

Enter the graveyard
03Method

See exactly how a number earns our confidence.

Where each figure was read, what zero means here, and the limits of every public claim.

Read the methodology
09A better redirect

Spend It Better

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WHAT THIS DOES

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WFPFood security

World Food Programme

Emergency food assistance and long-term resilience in communities facing hunger.

Your alternative: $100Open official site
UNIChildren

UNICEF

Health, education, protection, clean water, and emergency support for children.

Your alternative: $100Open official site
MSFMedical aid

Doctors Without Borders

Independent emergency medical care in conflict zones, disasters, and outbreaks.

Your alternative: $100Open official site
GDDirect cash

GiveDirectly

Direct cash transfers to people living in poverty, with fewer assumptions in between.

Your alternative: $100Open official site
CWClean water

charity: water

Community-owned clean water projects with public reporting on funded work.

Your alternative: $100Open official site
TEMANature

TEMA

Reforestation, biodiversity, soil protection, and environmental education in Türkiye.

Your alternative: $100Open official site
NO MIDDLEMAN

We do not process donations. We do not take a cut. Links go directly to the organizations' official sites.

10 / THE VERDICTNOT AN ARGUMENT AGAINST BUILDING

Being first
is not the same
as being loud.

This site was never a case against making money on the internet. It is a case against the ninth copy of an idea, sold to people who were told the ranking was the product.

01

The first one earned it.

outbid.lol invented the format, shipped it in a night, and took the attention that came with being first. That is not what this site is arguing against. Somebody made something people wanted to look at, and got paid for it.

02

The copies did not.

Nine boards repeated the mechanic within days and split $8,035 between them. Three never shipped a page at all. Copying the interface was never the hard part; the attention had already been spent.

03

And it is over.

The wave lasted 10 days from the first registration to the last. Nothing new has launched into it since. This record stays up because the pattern will repeat under a different name, not because the boards still matter.

TRACK THE BUBBLE.
SKIP THE BID.How every figure was checked
11Who made this

Made By Hand, Like The Data.

StopBidding has no ads, no affiliate links and no slot for sale. The only thing promoted on this page is the work of the person who built it.

The makerNot for sale

İ. Hüseyin Özdamar

Product designer and builder, based in Istanbul

Every board on this site was opened, read and checked by one person over a few days. If a number here is wrong, there is exactly one place to send the correction.

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