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TRUSTDESKOutRip sells five $1+ product cards for $5; top rating sets public rank
OutRip sells five $1+ product cards for $5; top rating sets public rank
The median pay-to-rank leaderboard has taken $3.50 in its whole life, and nine of them have taken nothing
Nine of the pay-to-rank leaderboards selling first place have never taken a dollar from anybody. Across the 38 boards in that sample that publish what their top spot has actually gone for, the median is $3.50, and 35 of the 38 are under $25. We read those figures off the directories' own pages on 2026-08-27, and the median price to enter one of them is $1.
One site is most of the money in the category. Third-party trackers put outbid.lol at roughly $200,000 in about 100 hours, and one free directory puts $312K across all 346 boards it lists. Everything downstream of that is much smaller than its rank card suggests. First place in front of nobody is worth nobody, whatever it costs.
What we built instead
OutRip is a pay-to-rank leaderboard for products where you open packs of cards instead of bidding, and your single best card's rating is your rank on the public board. It is for a founder with a live product who wants eyes on it. What you get is a pack you tear open one card at a time, every card a downloadable image carrying your product's name, and a row on the board. Five cards is $5, fifteen is $12, ninety is $59. Every pack returns at least what you paid in card value, and that floor is checked before a single card is written down.
Why a bid board stops moving
Of the 50 boards one directory renders on its index, 39 rank by money alone: 23 add up everything you have paid, 16 take the single highest bid. On a highest-bid board the price of first place only ever goes up, because taking it means paying more than the current holder paid. The race ends the moment one person's ceiling sits above everyone else's. A board can carry a hundred rows, look busy, and have had the same name on top since its launch week.
What a score does instead
If rank is a continuous number rather than a price, the newest entry is the best one so far with odds of exactly one in k, whatever shape the numbers have. Add that up and the expected count of new leaders over a run of entries grows about as fast as the logarithm of the count, which is to say it barely grows at all.
A hundred entries produce about four takeovers. A million produce about thirteen. Often enough to be a live race, rare enough that each one is worth posting, and the difficulty curve arrives on its own without anybody throttling or decaying anything. A card's rating here is one over the square root of how likely its six traits were, so it has no ceiling and first place stays beatable. It just gets harder.
| Boards that rank by money | OutRip | |
|---|---|---|
| What sets your rank | the amount paid; 39 of the 50 sampled | your single best card's rating |
| Taking first place back | pay more than the leader paid, so the race ends at the highest ceiling | any entry, at odds of one in k |
| Lead changes over a million entries | the price only rises, so none once it settles | about 13 |
| Median price to enter | $1, across the 40 boards quoting one | $5 for five cards |
| What you keep | the position, and 41 of the 50 sold one that expires | the cards, and at least what you paid in card value |
Three of the free directories publish per-board spend, so what a board has actually taken is checkable in about a minute. Every figure above carries the day it was read, printed beside it on the page it came from.
Rip a pack: https://outrip.lol/kd
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What each account said
OutRip is a public leaderboard for products, and you climb it by opening packs of cards. You buy a pack, rip it, and your single best card's rating is your rank. Every card carries your product's name, so there is something to post whether you land at 2 or at 40. Every pack returns at least what you paid in card value. A card is never worth less than a dollar, so five cards in a five dollar pack clears the floor by arithmetic, before a single one is written down. You can trade cards in for dust and buy cards with the dust, and that round trip loses on purpose: 35 percent back on a trade in, 1.5x to buy. Ripping stays the cheaper path, and I would rather say that than let someone work it out. $5 for 5 cards, $12 for 15, $59 for 90. https://outrip.lol #PackOpening
A leaderboard you buy your way onto is a price list. OutRip makes you rip for your place on it. Your product gets cards minted from six published trait frequencies. Your best card's rating is your rank on the public board, and it is continuous, so first place is always beatable. $5 for five cards, and every pack returns at least what you paid in card value. kynth.studio holds number one at 57.00. I put it live this week. https://outrip.lol/pl/b64mm9
Nobody's place on our board is a verdict on their product. It's a five dollar coin flip with nicer artwork. OutRip is a public leaderboard: you rip a five dollar pack of cards for your product, and your single best card sets your rank. A card's rating is one divided by the square root of how likely that combination was, so the worst card you can pull is worth 57 and the best one possible is worth 9,128,709. Same product, two rips, and the gap between them is luck. The odds we will stand behind. We read the rarity page and the pack opener out of the same six frequency tables and tier bands, one file, so the published table can't drift from the thing dealing your cards. <caption>The published rarity table and the pack opener that deals your cards read the same frequency tables and tier bands, out of one file.</caption> #software https://outrip.lol/kl
OutRip sells you a $5 pack of five trading cards for your product, and your best card's rating is your rank on the public board. The thing people ask before they pay is what happens if a pack comes back worthless. Every card is worth at least a dollar, so five cards can't total under the five you paid. The rip adds up the pack and checks it against what you paid before it writes a single card down. The rating comes off the roll itself, one over the square root of how likely that combination was, which is why a plain looking card is plain. Fifteen cards is $12. Ninety is $59. #indiehackers #buildinpublic #tradingcards https://outrip.lol/ig
Your product can lose its place on OutRip's public board when somebody opens a card with a higher rating. OutRip is a pack-opening game. You pay $5 for five cards, and your best card sets your rank. https://outrip.lol/kx #PackOpening
outbid launched about a week ago. It sells positions on a public leaderboard to whoever pays most. It has done 1.39 million visitors, and first place is currently going for $17,005. It deserves the run. It found something real: people will pay for a public #1, and they will watch other people pay for it. What it doesn't have is a second act. A bid is a number you type, and once one participant's budget clears everyone else's, nobody else has a reason to come back. The other format people will watch for hours is someone opening a pack of cards. So I shipped OutRip, which is the two of them merged. You submit a product, buy a pack, and rip it. Your single highest-rated card is your rank. The rating is computed from six published trait frequencies rather than chosen, and it is continuous, so there is no top card, and first place is permanently contestable by anyone holding $5. The part that took the most design: making sure a miss is not a loss. Every pack returns at least what you paid in card value. Cards you don't want trade into the shop for dust, and dust buys the card you do want. A published pity ladder guarantees a Rare at ten packs, an Epic at twenty-five, a Legendary at fifty, and the top of the board is deliberately never on that ladder, because the moment money guarantees first place it is a bid board with extra steps. outrip.lol
Every OutRip pack is worth at least what you paid for it. Five cards for $5, and no card is ever valued under a dollar. Rip against your own product, and the best rating you have ever pulled is where you sit on the board. https://outrip.lol/kx/bacu09 #PackOpening