The first crypto-native Outbid alternative
Outbid made pay-to-rank obvious in dollars. Outsat is the crypto-native version: sats, Lightning, one host. The invoice is the sit.
Outbid showed the shape in public: a board, a price, a climb. Dollars. URLs and @handles. $5 to get on. People understood it in one glance. Then they paid.
Outsat is the crypto-native version of that board. Same idea — pay to rank. Different money. The score is sats. The bill is a Lightning invoice. The seat is an http(s) host, not a handle.
There were Lightning toys and tip jars before. What there wasn't, once Outbid went loud, was a bitcoin-native answer with the same obvious mechanic. That's this site.
What "crypto-native" means here
Not a token. Not points. Not a dollar checkout with a bitcoin sticker.
- You pay bitcoin. The unit is sats.
- It settles. The invoice clears or you don't sit. No card hold, no "pending."
- The rank is that payment. Clicks get counted. They do not climb.
- No account. No KYC from us.
Dollars are someone else's rail. Sats are the rail. Lightning vs on-chain is why a 1,000-sat sit can't live in a block. Building on Lightning is who still ships on it.
Outbid did the hard part
They made the product obvious. Public number. Higher number wins. Startups already speak dollars. A $5 floor is a try, not a campaign. Handles let you bid an X account. That is why it exploded.
We are not pretending they failed. We are the other unit.
Side by side, short
- Outbid — USD, URL or @handle, $5 new spots, up the bid
- Outsat — sats, one host, 1,000-sat steps, same host stacks, Lightning only
Full split: Outsat vs Outbid. Other boards people mean: Outbid alternatives.
Who this is for
You want the Outbid shape — a public climb — and you want it in bitcoin. You have a site, not a handle. You can pay an invoice, or you're willing to get sats onto a wallet.
You want dollars and @names? That's still Outbid.
Sit
- Put a link.
- Pick 1,000-sat steps.
- Pay the invoice.
- The host lands. Pay enough and you take #1.
How to rank. House copy: rules.