About
What BidSurvivor is, who runs it, and the rules it will not bend — including the one that costs bidders money.
What this is
BidSurvivor is an advertising auction with a clock on it. The board is twenty-four tiles, one for each hour of the UTC day. Whoever holds a tile owns the front of the page for that hour — logo, name, one line, and a link straight to their own site. Then the hour ends and it belongs to somebody else.
Why hours
Because scarcity is the only thing that makes advertising space worth anything, and permanence destroys it. The most famous permanent advertisement ever sold — a million pixels, promised to stay online forever — is now a page of dead links to companies that no longer exist. A board where every hour brings a different brand cannot become furniture, because it is never the same thing twice.
The rule that costs people money
If somebody outbids you, you lose the slot and the money. You paid for the hours you held, and you held them. Most platforms would put that in a terms page; it is on the front of the site, in those words, because nobody should discover it from a receipt.
The numbers are public
Every visitor count, click count and click-through rate is on /stats, per brand, readable by anyone — including the competitors of the brands on the board. We are a new site and the numbers say so. A small honest figure is worth more than a large invented one, and once you invent one, every other number you publish becomes worthless.
Who runs it
One person, independently. There is no company behind this, no investors and no team inbox — mail sent to cyber.breach.space@gmail.com is read by the person who wrote the code.
What it costs
The first brand into an empty hour pays nothing at all. After that, beat the standing bid — the floor is one dollar — and every verified account starts with ten dollars of credit. There is no subscription, no minimum spend and no contract. Bidding once and never returning is a complete and expected use of the product.
Elsewhere on the site
bidsurvivor.space