'.lol is the new .com': bid-board sites like outbid.lol hit 1M+ visits
ThePeterMick · x · 2026-08-22
A thread argues ".lol is the new .com": a wave of Best Bid sites lets indie products buy ranked spots on a live leaderboard. outbid.lol shows 1,085,683 visitors since launch, with #1 slot held by joni.ai (a personal AI computer orchestrating agent teams) at $14,013, followed by SEO automation tool outrank.so at $13,005 and CrowdReply, which pitches getting brands cited by ChatGPT/Gemini/Perplexity. It's essentially replacing ad slots with a real-time bidding game for exposure.
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