About

A receipt, for a board that only prints prices.

outbid.lol shows what every listing paid. It does not show what any of them got. This site scrapes the public board every fifteen minutes, divides the bid by the clicks, and prints the answer. That is the entire product.

This site, itemised

Revenue

$0.00There is nothing to buy here and nothing is for sale.

Infrastructure

$0.00Free tier throughout. Deliberately, not accidentally.

Listings tracked

776

Snapshots stored

3,902

Scrapes run

15One every fifteen minutes, since we started watching.

History held

3.7 hNobody who starts later can backfill this. It had to be recorded as it happened.

How it stays free at any traffic

A board that can send a million people at you is also a board that can send you a bill. So the read path was designed before the interface was.

Database reads

0Per visitor. Pages are static and regenerate every 15 minutes, so a million visitors and one visitor cost the database exactly the same.

Fonts

5.7 KBTwo faces, subset from 47 KB. Departure Mono for figures, Fragment Mono for everything else.

Stylesheet

3.9 KB

Framework

134 KBNext.js App Router's floor. A page here with zero client components still ships this, so it is the honest number rather than a target we hit.

Client JavaScript we wrote

~1 KBSort, filter and search, running on rows already on the page.

Where it is wrong

Clicks are cumulative and bids are not, so a listing that was cheap early and expensive later shows a flattering number. We say so at length on the methodology page rather than waiting to be told.

Credit

Every number came from outbid.lol, built by Jonathan Wilke. He built the thing a million people wanted to look at. We ran the division on it.

This one is by @elberacasa, who has never bid on anything.