Brief 01 · Day 6 of the wave
The money didn't clone
Three hundred boards launched. Almost all of the dollars stayed on the first one. The rest of the wave is now a fight over niches, maps, and who gets to be the index.
- Sourced across 19 ledgers
- $280,604
- Still on outbid.lol
- 78%
- Boards in the wave
- 332
- Dearest #1
- $17,000
What the tape says this morning
Six days after Jonathan Wilke shipped outbid.lol in three hours, the original still holds $219,073 of $280,604 in sourced board revenue — 78%. Public ledgers put visitors past 1.34 million, listings around 1,389, and the #1 seat at $17,000 (see.io). The founder is calling the category "attention markets." The clones called it a template.
afford.bid is re-reading fifteen live boards every three minutes and has 332 names on the list. bidfeed.lol publishes a sourced table of nineteen. bidzoo.lol puts a conservation status on each cage. outbid.fyi is selling $150 sponsor slots on a 263-board index. The meta-layer is now denser than the original mechanic.
The actual #2 is not a clone
1milllionpixels.com — MakerThrive's Million Dollar Homepage rebuild — is the second pile of money. bidfeed sources $33,000; bidzoo's live grid reads much higher. Either way it is not a leaderboard. It is pixels. The $42 outbid.lol buy that sent 64,000 people at the grid is the first clean receipt that the original is a distribution pipe, not just a vanity rank.
Among boards that actually auction rank, warmap.lol is #2: about $6,500 in, 194 bids, $540 to hold a country at 1.5× takeover. Then a tight cluster of niches with buyers — topapp.lol (~$3k), tinystartups.com, premierdelaclasse.lol, bidyourapp.com. Straight .lol copies with no audience are empty. That is the whole lesson, and it was visible by day three.
Mechanics that are not just a new domain
Decay (lastspot.lol at 5%/day, topple.lol draining on time and clicks) is trying to make #1 affordable again. Refunding (frontpage.sh) pays you for losing. outnumber.lol multiplies dollars by referred visitors so money alone cannot buy the top. payluck.lol locks a coupon so nobody can outbid you. bidclub.lol runs a two-up fight and does not print the payer. lamborghini.lol is selling panels on a car.
None of those have the original's tape. They have a rule. The rule is the product now. A new .lol with the same cumulative bid is a domain, not a board.
What BidCon is for, this week
The scrape directories will keep adding names until the list is a joke. BidCon is the free room: boards with money, a mechanic, or an audience, plus anyone who wants to list. Owners can claim. Operators marked open can take partnerships. Daily briefs run through September 5. Live session I is September 5. The main event is September 12.
If you run a board, list it. If you bought rank this week and want a real sponsorship deal instead of another $5 seat, that path is still AcquireSponsor. If you want the premium ranking board, sponsored.lol. The centerpoint stays free until the season closes.
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