isopod.lol
Eight ad plates on one very stealable isopod
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Eight ad plates on one very stealable isopod
3 followers
isopod.lol turns one glossy internet bug into eight paid advertising placements. Claim an open plate from $3 to $19. Once it is owned, anyone can steal it for the last paid price + $10. The first purchase starts a 14-day season, then the final owners stay on the shell for 90 days. Plate 01 owns the thought bubble. Every listing is reviewed before going live.
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Wrote the boring part down so I wouldn’t lie to myself later:
https://isopod-lol.github.io/
Hardest bit wasn’t the bug. It was two browsers hitting the same plate.
Displayed price is a quote. Server creates a short reservation on (season, plate, version). Ownership only moves after a completed capture. If PayPal is “approved” but not captured, the plate stays locked. Fail closed.
If you’ve shipped anything with webhooks: do you release the slot when the tab closes, or wait for the provider?
Other messy pieces in that writeup:
refunds are ownership rollbacks, not deletes
magic link is a hashed token, email fail does not undo the payment
SVG logos get stripped so a plate can’t ship a script
If you’re cloning an outbid-style board on Cloudflare’s free tier, steal the notes. If you see a hole in the lock, tell me here. I’d rather hear it on launch day than after plate 01 sells twice.
quick note our stack was : @Cloudflare Workers @PayPal