The founders behind pay-to-rank boards
Outbid.lol kicked off the pay-to-rank trend and dozens of builders followed. Here are the people behind the boards we track - who they are, what they built, and how their boards are performing.
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7 founders profiled so far.
Atta Ur Rehman Shah
Built StartupBase (9 years, 10K listings) and Dethrone, the pay-to-rank feature for startups.
Dethrone$100
Jonathan Wilke
Built Outbid.lol in three hours. It earned $120K in 48 hours.
Outbid$17,000
Marc Lou
Made $1M in 2025 solo. Ships startups in days with ShipFast, CodeFast, DataFast, and TrustMRR.
Indie hacker
Nick
Built rankbid.lol, a pay-to-rank board where lifetime spend sets your position.
rankbid$102
Pieter Levels
Solo founder of Nomad List, Remote OK, and Photo AI. $3.1M/year, zero employees.
Indie hacker
Rishit Patel
Built outbid.fyi - the directory tracking every pay-to-rank board.
Indie hacker
Tony Dinh
Built TypingMind to $1M+ ARR. Sold BlackMagic.so. Ships indie software from Vietnam.
Indie hacker