Heat98
Active across multiple boards
LIVE COPYWAVE
Outbid is being
copied in public.
A live board of Outbid variants: who copied it, what they changed, and what their public boards show.
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SITE
NICHE
BOARD #1
#1 AMOUNT
FOUNDER / PROMOTER
TOTAL TYPE
CORE MECHANISM / POSITIONING
KEY CHANGE VS OUTBID
Observed
Source
01
Original leaderboard
$125,190
joni.ai
$14,013
FOUNDERJonathan Wilke
16,000
Public board total
Public board total · Original board; public total is not audited revenue
Reference board for the original pay-to-rank mechanism.
Source ↗Original source
02
App Store apps
$2,929
Gravity Animals
$178
FOUNDERJulien V
—
Lifetime bid total
Lifetime bid total · Repeat bids add to an app's lifetime total
No verified difference captured yet.
03
Games
$350
Block Out! - Color Sort Puzzle
$25
BRAND ACCOUNTweb4strategy
—
Pledged board total
Pledged board total · Payment processing intentionally not connected
No verified difference captured yet.
04
Domains
$347
2SI.ai
$25
BRAND ACCOUNTweb4strategy
—
Pledged board total
Pledged board total · Payment processing intentionally not connected
No verified difference captured yet.
05
Crypto assets
$300
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BRAND ACCOUNTweb4strategy
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Pledged board total
Pledged board total · Payment processing intentionally not connected
No verified difference captured yet.
06
Base projects
$87
Robinhood
$30
FOUNDERKevinAMPLIFIERAmrit Mirchandani
—
Current locked amount
Base / Crypto direction.
Verticalizes the board for Base projects and uses refundable locked deposits.
07
General products
$49
prwiz.com
$10
FOUNDERKhushal Dewra
504
Visible banked board total
Visible banked board total · Stripe payments; page reports $52 spent today; no refund when outbid
No verified difference captured yet.
08
General products
$36
highwaybillboard.io
$11
FOUNDERMark Z
—
Public board total
Public board total · Bid total; refund policy requires follow-up verification
No verified difference captured yet.
09
X accounts
$32
eliobldr
$12
PROMOTERSTA
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Public board total
Public board total · Final bids; no refund when pushed down
No verified difference captured yet.
10
Threads accounts
$28
mkuchmaaa
$10
FOUNDERRoman A
—
Public board total
A vertical leaderboard for Threads accounts.
Applies the ranking mechanic to Threads accounts instead of products.
Source ↗X source pending
11
Crypto tokens
$20
Virtual Protocol
$9
AMPLIFIERAmrit Mirchandani
—
Public board total
Base / Crypto direction.
Moves the mechanic into crypto-token discovery and USDC bids.
Source ↗X source pending
12
App Store apps
$12
Park the Car - IQ Challenge
$6
FOUNDERTomo
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Lifetime bid total
Lifetime bid total · Stripe payments; all bids are final and non-refundable
No verified difference captured yet.
Source ↗X source pending
13
Meme coins
$10
Bullballs Coin
$4
FOUNDERBerndSol
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Total paid shown by stats API
A vertical version for Meme Coins.
Targets meme-coin attention instead of general product ranking.
Source ↗X source pending
14
Verified SaaS / startup leaderboard
$9
goodestboy.lol
$9
FOUNDERSaint
—
Current top balance
Startup leaderboard with verified Stripe MRR, paid top-3 visibility, and a marketplace.
Adds verified MRR, paid top-three visibility, and a startup marketplace.
Source ↗X source pending
15
Website ranking
$9
bloomiro.com
$5
FOUNDERIslagart
—
Public board total
Website bidding leaderboard with weekly and all-time rankings.
Splits the competition into weekly and all-time website rankings.
Source ↗X source pending
16
YouTube promotion
$3
Revit Beginner Tutorial - Floor plan (part 1)
$2
AMPLIFIERMathieu Bonte
—
Public board total
A vertical version for YouTube.
Applies public bidding to YouTube videos and channels.
Source ↗X source pending
17
European startups
€3
doc0
€3
FOUNDERAlessandro Afloarei
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Public board total
The site explicitly says "Inspired by outbid.lol."
Localizes the mechanism for European startups and euro-denominated bids.
Source ↗X source pending
18
Crypto / meme projects
$2
Green Dildo
$2
FOUNDERRich Mirkie
—
Public board total
Public board total · Final bids; non-refundable
No verified difference captured yet.
Source ↗X source pending
19
Indie maker pay-to-rank
$2
OnDevice LLM
$2
FOUNDERMustafa Ergisi
—
Current top balance
Officially compares itself with Outbid; adds balance decay and click spend.
Adds balance decay and click-based spend to make attention expire faster.
Source ↗X source pending
20
SaaS launches
$0
OFFLINE
—
FOUNDERAnkit Tharol
61
24-hour board total
24-hour board total · Bids stay live for 24 hours
No verified difference captured yet.
21
OFFLINE
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OFFLINE
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No current board; HTTP 404
No current board; HTTP 404 · Domain currently returns HTTP 404
No verified difference captured yet.
Source ↗X source pending
22
Pixel territory
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Non-monetary board
—
FOUNDERPatrick Gerard
89
No public amount captured
Turns the Outbid mechanic into pixel territory.
Changes the scarce asset from a ranked listing to pixel territory.
Source ↗X source pending
PUBLIC BOARD TOTAL These are time-stamped public-board observations, not audited revenue. Locked, refundable, pledged, lifetime, and 24-hour totals stay in their original categories. X follower counts stay blank until verified from a source account.
OUTBID.LOL COPYWAVE ACTIVECLONE PRESSURE 91 ↑DIRECT COPY CROWDEDMECHANISM FORK TO TESTOUTBID.LOL COPYWAVE ACTIVECLONE PRESSURE 91 ↑
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HAPPENING NOW
Don’t copy the product.
Read the window.
The direct-copy window is crowded. These scores are editorial signals based on time-stamped public evidence—not guarantees or audited financial data.
Proof78
Public pages + rules
Saturation91
Copywave spread across niches
Window37
Direct copy is closing
OPPORTUNITY WINDOWOUTBID.LOL
37 / 100 LATE
DiscoveryDetected
ValidationSignals found
AttentionGoing viral
Clone waveYou are here
SaturationNovelty gone
DIRECT CLONECrowded
General and vertical boards are already live. The mechanic is no longer novel.
VERTICAL CLONENarrow
Only worth testing when the niche brings its own audience, data, or distribution.
MECHANISM FORKTestable
Keep public competition and visible feedback; change the buyer, context, and economic outcome.
02
MECHANISM STACK
Outbid isn’t selling traffic.
It’s selling status through a public financial game.
01Status competition★★★★★
The #1 position is public identity.
02Visible money★★★★★
Every bid becomes a new story.
03Artificial scarcity★★★★★
There can only be one winner.
04Sunk cost★★★★☆
The higher the bid, the harder it is to walk away.
05Spectacle★★★★★
People return to watch the next irrational move.
06User-funded distribution★★★★☆
Listed products have a reason to share the board.
REVENUE→CONTENT→DISTRIBUTION→REVENUE
03
CLONE RADAR
The copywave
has left the original.
The pattern now spans general boards, X profiles, SEO, apps and launch pages. These are tracked signals—not proof of shared code or audited revenue.
ORIGINALOutbid.lolAug 19 · 23:08
LEADuprank.lolGeneral pay-to-rank
LEADxme.lolX profile ranking
OBSERVEDtopseos.lolSEO directory
LEADlauncharena.devLaunch board
RELATIONSHIPSome links need review
FOUNDER CLAIM3 copycats
DIRECT-COPY WINDOWCrowded
05
WHAT WOULD WE BUILD?
Fork the mechanism.
Not the interface.
We’re looking for markets with a native buyer, native distribution, and a result worth competing for—not another generic leaderboard.
FORK 01Early window
SponsorWars
Publicly compete for the scarce top sponsorship slot of a high-attention page.
WHO PAYSBrands & newsletter operators
FORK 02Open window
AgencyRank
Turn category leadership into a visible, contestable acquisition position.
WHO PAYSSpecialist agencies
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More mechanisms under reviewUnlock market, distribution, validation plan and prompts for your coding agent.
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THE RADAR LOOP
Don’t tell me what worked.
Tell me what it makes possible next.
01Detect
Find simple products with abnormal revenue, traffic or ranking signals.
02Verify
Separate public pages, founder claims, estimates and disputed numbers.
03Map
Track copywave velocity, vertical adaptations, and what survives follow-up checks.
04Fork
Turn remaining whitespace into a 48-hour test and a coding-agent brief.
EARLY ACCESS · V1Get the next
Get the next
copywave update.
New sites, mechanism changes, live status and evidence links—without the hype.
Signal methodology: Public counters and leaderboard amounts are time-stamped observations—not audited revenue. Founder revenue and build-time statements remain claims until independently verified. A site is kept as a lead when public evidence suggests a relationship; mechanism similarity alone stays unconfirmed. Scores are editorial V1 judgments for comparison, not financial forecasts.