# iHateReading — bid $1 to stay on top

> Pay $1+ to put a blog or essay first. Highest bid wins.

[https://www.ihatereading.lol](https://www.ihatereading.lol) is a public pay-to-rank board for writing. Anyone pastes a blog, essay, or article, bids at least $1, pays, and that URL rises by cumulative money. Highest total bid stays first. No accounts. Videos are blocked.

If you were given this URL and HTML scraping failed, use these plain-text documents instead:

- LLM index: https://www.ihatereading.lol/llms.txt
- Full dump: https://www.ihatereading.lol/llms-full.txt
- This page (markdown): https://www.ihatereading.lol/index.md
- How to clone it: https://www.ihatereading.lol/build.md

## How it works

1. Land on the board at https://www.ihatereading.lol
2. Paste a URL of a blog, essay, or article (not a video)
3. Bid $1 or more. Bids stack on the same URL.
4. Pay. After payment succeeds the listing goes live.
5. Rank is all-time money, not likes.

Minimum bid is $1. Money is stored as integer cents. Same URL cannot create a second listing — a new bid stacks on the existing one.

## Pages

| Page | HTML | Markdown |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Home / board | https://www.ihatereading.lol | https://www.ihatereading.lol/index.md |
| Build playbook | https://www.ihatereading.lol/build | https://www.ihatereading.lol/build.md |
| Live stats | https://www.ihatereading.lol/stats | https://www.ihatereading.lol/stats.md |

## FAQ

**What is ihatereading.lol?**
A bid board for writing. Pay $1+ to put a blog or essay first. Highest bid wins.

**Who made it?**
Shrey Vijayvargiya ([@treyvijay](https://x.com/treyvijay)). Sister site: https://ihatereading.in

**Can I build my own?**
Yes. Copy-paste agent prompts live at https://www.ihatereading.lol/build (markdown: https://www.ihatereading.lol/build.md). Stacks include Firebase, Supabase, Prisma, Convex, Upstash with Stripe, Polar, or Dodo Payments.

**Is this the same as ihatereading.in?**
No. ihatereading.in is the magazine. ihatereading.lol is the pay-to-rank board for individual reads.


## Board (all-time)

1. **#1 [iHateReading - Breaking down the software development](https://www.ihatereading.lol/read/read_f3e95903)** — $1 from 1 bid — https://ihatereading.in/

Each row also has a markdown document at `/read/{id}.md`.