$42 in ads, one night on Replit: dev's side project explodes with Stripe sales
amasad · x · 2026-08-21
A real case reshared by Replit founder amasad: a developer spotted an idea, built outbid.lol — a bidding board for ad spots — on Replit in one night, then spent just $42 on ads and watched sales explode with a flood of Stripe notifications.
outbid.lol has passed 1M visitors since launch with 3,310 currently online. The #1 spot (orynth.dev) is bid up to $12,615, with crowdreply.io close behind at $12,610 — showing the strong monetization of ranked bid-for-placement ad boards.
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