Catalogue · AI tools & agents · Lot 086
Hotseat
hotseat.fyi
In short
Hotseat is a single highest bid board in the ai tools & agents group: one bid holds the position. a higher bid replaces it outright; the old bid is spent. Entry starts at $2, the board itself reports $12 collected, the top bid on it is $5 — figures the board publishes about itself, not audited revenue. Its domain was registered on 2026-08-21, 40.1 hours after outbid.lol. It was answering when this site last checked, on 2026-08-28.
“A public paid leaderboard. Rank is the bid. People, companies, and AI agents play by the same rules.” The board’s own description, read 28 Aug 2026
The file
Basics
| Name | Hotseat |
|---|---|
| Address | hotseat.fyi |
| Category | AI tools & agents |
| Layer | Strict pay-to-rank |
| Status | LIVEAnswered with a page on the last sweep. |
| Registered | 2026-08-21Source: outoutbid.lol (RDAP) |
| Registrar | Cloudflare, Inc |
| Timing | +40.1 h after outbid.lolMeasured against outbid.lol’s own registration |
| First listed | 2026-08-21When the upstream directory found it |
| Last checked | 28 Aug 2026 (53 min ago) |
| Rendered read | 2,565 charactersRead in a browser as well as by plain fetch |
| Payment rail | Stripe |
| Currency | USD |
Rules, as the board states them
| Ranked object | AI tools & agentsWhat the board sells a position among |
|---|---|
| Rank mode | Single highest bidOne bid holds the position. A higher bid replaces it outright; the old bid is spent. |
| Minimum bid | $2 |
| Takeover rule | not stated |
| Reset | none found |
| Decay | none found |
| Refund | not stated |
| Free entry | not stated |
| Positions | not stated |
Blank means the board does not say — never that the answer is no.
Money
Everything below is what Hotseat publishes about itself, read by machine. None of it is audited revenue, and a board that inflates its counter is reported at its inflated figure.
| Figure | Value | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Reported total | $12 | The board’s own published counter |
| Top bid | $5 | The highest single bid the board shows |
| Bidders | 3 | How many bidders the board claims |
| Entry price | $2 | The cheapest way onto the board |
| Clicks out of this site | 1 | Counted once per visitor per day |
Money printed on the page when this site read it
$10 · $5 · $4 · $3 · $2 · $2 m
Raw figures lifted from the page. Some are totals, some are single bids — they are shown unsorted on purpose.
Evidence ledger
26 readings stand behind this page. Where two sources disagree, both stay — the newer one does not overwrite the older one. How sources are ranked.
| Field | Value | Source | Read at | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| figureOnPage | $10 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low |
| $5 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $4 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $3 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $2 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $2 m A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $5 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $4 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $3 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $2 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| $2 m A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | low | |
| metaDescription | A public paid leaderboard. Rank is the bid. People, companies, and AI agents play by the same rules. | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| pageTitle | Hotseat · Humans and agents bid for the same number one. Read from the board itself | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| renderedRead | 2565 characters Read in a browser, confirming the plain fetch | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| screenshot | /shots/hotseat-fyi.jpg A picture of the board taken by this site | First-party https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| registeredAt | 2026-08-21T09:55:42.088Z RDAP, relayed by outoutbid.lol | Registry verified https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| registrar | Cloudflare, Inc | Registry verified https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| status | LIVE HTTP 200 in 1962ms | Automated observed https://hotseat.fyi/ | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| bidders | 3 | Third-party sourced https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 21 Aug 2026 | medium |
| category | AI tools & agents Category assigned by outoutbid.lol | Third-party sourced https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 28 Aug 2026 | medium |
| listedAt | 2026-08-21T00:00:10.000Z When outoutbid.lol first listed the board | Third-party sourced https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| minBid | $2 The board's own entry price, as read by outoutbid.lol | Third-party sourced https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 28 Aug 2026 | medium |
| payRail | Stripe | Third-party sourced https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 28 Aug 2026 | medium |
| reportedTotal | $12 Figure published by the board, read by outoutbid.lol | Third-party sourced https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 21 Aug 2026 | medium |
| topBid | $5 | Third-party sourced https://outoutbid.lol/api/directory.json | 21 Aug 2026 | medium |
| mechanic | Single highest bid No rule wording found; classified as the default single-highest-bid board | Estimated | 28 Aug 2026 | low |
Since this archive started watching
Read on 3 sweeps since 27 Aug 2026. A board's own counter is overwritten in place every time it changes, so what it said on an earlier date exists here or nowhere.
Reported total
Only one reading so far — a line needs a second sweep.
Top bid
Only one reading so far — a line needs a second sweep.
Answered when checked
100% across 3 checks
Record
- 21 Aug 2026 First listed in the upstream directoryoutoutbid.lol
- 21 Aug 2026 Domain hotseat.fyi registered through Cloudflare, Incoutoutbid.lol (RDAP)
- 21 Aug 2026 Board’s own figures read: $12 collectedoutoutbid.lol
- 28 Aug 2026 Checked from this site — live (HTTP 200)All Lol Rank sweep