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The best Milliboard alternatives in 2026 (pay-to-rank and king-of-the-hill)

Milliboard sells rank. These sell rank, the centre, a single slot, or a spot you can lose. Pick your fight.

Updated 2026-08-189 min readMarkdown ↗

Milliboard (milliboard.com) is a 2026 pay-to-rank board: you pay any amount, the highest single payment holds #1, anyone can outbid you by 1¢, and the whole board freezes forever once it reaches $1,337,690. People look for alternatives because they want a spot they own rather than a rank they rent, a lower floor than "more than the last person", or a game that does not end on purpose. The one-line answer: Square Town (square.pov.town) if you want a $1 spot on a wall with a Throne and evictions; The Pixel Orbit if you want to hold the centre; frontpage.sh, TabRush, Space and overwrite.place if you want one of a handful of contested slots.

TL;DR (as of August 2026): Milliboard = rank by payment, no location. Square Town = location by choice, evict for double, one Throne at $100 doubling. The Pixel Orbit = centre by cumulative spend. overwrite.place / Space / TabRush / frontpage.sh = one or a few slots under permanent auction. earth.tattoo and Tocka = evict-by-paying-more on a globe or a pixel canvas.

What Milliboard does well, and what it doesn't

Milliboard is the closest thing to Square Town in spirit: competitive, 2026, indie audience, a "Daily Throne" and a top-3 hall of fame. It is also the purest version of pay-to-rank — a leaderboard where money is the only axis. What it doesn't have: a grid, a spot you can point at, favicons, decay, or an ending you'd want (it stops at $1,337,690 by design). If you want the leaderboard fight, stay; if you want to be somewhere, read on. Full head-to-head: Square Town vs Milliboard and pay-to-rank vs spatial ownership.

The alternatives at a glance

# Site Price What you place Mechanics Status (Aug 2026)
1 Square Town $1 per square; Throne intro $100 Favicon (from URL) + link, on a grid Evict for 2×, Throne doubles per eviction, 90-day kiss decay, live, 3D Live
2 The Pixel Orbit Pay per rectangle (5×5 = $2.50); bid for centre Drawn/written/uploaded rectangles Highest total payer holds the exact centre; canvas re-sorts; can be outbid Active
3 overwrite.place Agents pay/submit One artwork square Current occupant is the biggest square; dethroned entries shrink to a permanent square sized by tenure Active
4 Space (spacefilled.com) $1 more than the last buyer One image + caption Single slot, +$1 per turn, archive of past owners Active (slow)
5 FlexList Bid via Stripe, non-refundable Name + social links Highest bidder ranks #1 per city; outbid = bumped down Active
6 frontpage.sh Perpetual auction, USDC on-chain Image/logo + headline + link 8 squares (1 large, 2 medium, 5 small); outbid to take one, previous owner refunded + share; agent API Active (297 tx, $1,235 raised)
7 TabRush Tab ads from $1, +40 % per sale tier; rails $500/mo Site link/logo as a browser tab ~8 slots, "until someone steals it" Active
8 earth.tattoo First tile free hourly; extra $1; outbid $1/$2/$4/$8; crypto 16×16 pixel art on ~1 km² globe tiles Doubling outbid, evicted owner emailed, art archived Active (HN Jul 2026)
9 Tocka Credits; +1¢ per takeover; $1 free to start Painted pixels on 1000×1000 Take over any pixel by paying more, live, leaderboard Active
10 Milliboard Any amount; highest single payment is #1 Rank + name/logo/link Outbid by 1¢, Daily Throne, freezes at $1,337,690 Active

The 10 best Milliboard alternatives

  1. Square Town — a favicon wall where each 1×1 square is $1 one-time (Stripe, no account, no upload — paste a URL and the favicon is fetched). The Milliboard-shaped part is the Throne: a 4×4 gold tile in the dead centre, intro price $100, one owner, and evicting them costs double the last price ($100 → $200 → $400 → …). The rest of the wall runs the same rule at small scale — any square can be evicted for double what its owner paid, and the eviction is announced in the live feed. Add 90-day kiss decay, click-height 3D towers and rings that unlock at 70 % fill. Best for: anyone who wants a place on the board and a cheap way in; the Throne is the fight, the $1 squares are the crowd. Drawbacks: no image upload, no big blocks, and you can be evicted — that is the point, but it is also the catch. See Pricing — $1 a square, one time, forever* and the Throne explained.

  2. The Pixel Orbit — a canvas where you pay per rectangle (a 5×5 is $2.50) and the highest total payer holds the exact centre, with everything else re-sorting around them by spend; you can be outbid, and there is a leaderboard. This is Milliboard's rank turned into position. Best for: anyone who wants the middle and is willing to defend it. Drawback: your position is never yours — it moves whenever anyone above you spends more. See Square Town vs The Pixel Orbit: fixed squares or a re-sorting canvas?.

  3. overwrite.place — one artwork occupies the homepage; when it is dethroned it shrinks to a small permanent square sized by how long it held. Built for AI agents to pay and submit. Best for: agent builders and people who like a single-slot throne with a memory. Drawback: no grid purchase, no favicons, and if you're not an agent it's a spectator sport.

  4. Space (spacefilled.com) — one frame, one image and caption; to take it you pay $1 more than the last buyer, and past owners go into an archive. Deterministic escalation, no auction drama. Best for: cheap thrills — the entry price only rises $1 per turn. Drawback: activity is slow as of August 2026 and there is exactly one slot.

  5. FlexList — Milliboard sliced by city: bid via Stripe, highest bidder ranks #1 in their city, get outbid and you're bumped down; bids are non-refundable. Name plus social links. Best for: local ego contests. Drawback: it is a text leaderboard, not a spatial grid, and losing your rank does not refund you.

  6. frontpage.sh — eight ad squares (one large, two medium, five small) forever under perpetual auction: outbid to take one, the previous owner is refunded plus a share, 80 % of profits go to a community pool, and there is an agent API. Payment is USDC on-chain; a side canvas sells pixels from $0.005, doubling per sale. Best for: crypto-native buyers who like getting refunded when they lose. Drawback: any higher bid wins (not a fixed 2×), only eight slots, wallet required.

  7. TabRush — your site as a fake browser tab in a rail of about eight; tab ads start at $1 and rise 40 % per sale tier, rail sponsorships are $500 a month, and the pitch is "keep the billboard glowing until someone steals it". Best for: a novelty placement with a steal mechanic. Drawback: roughly eight slots, so the price climbs fast; no grid, no favicons.

  8. earth.tattoo — a live 3D globe of ~1 km² tiles; the first tile is free each hour, extra tiles are $1, and taking someone's tile costs $1 → $2 → $4 → $8 (the evicted owner gets an email, their art is archived). Crypto only. This is the closest match to Square Town's evict-at-double, just on Earth with pixel art. Best for: people who want to own their street. Drawback: no links or favicons, wallet required. See Square Town vs earth.tattoo: favicon wall or pixel art on a globe?.

  9. Tocka — a 1000×1000 canvas where each takeover raises that pixel's price by 1¢, you start with $1 free, and updates are live with a leaderboard. Best for: the pay-more-to-evict loop at penny stakes. Drawback: pixels and art, not URLs; no throne, decay or 3D. See Square Town vs Tocka: favicon wall or penny-war pixel canvas?.

  10. Milliboard — for completeness: pay any amount, highest single payment holds #1, outbid by 1¢, Daily Throne, top-3 hall of fame, freezes forever at $1,337,690. Best for: anyone who only cares about the number next to their name. Drawback: no location, no favicons, no decay, and it ends on purpose.

How to choose

  • You want rank: Milliboard, or FlexList for a per-city version.
  • You want the centre: The Pixel Orbit (by total spend) or Square Town's Throne (one owner, doubles per eviction).
  • You want to be one of a few: frontpage.sh (8 squares, refunds), TabRush (~8 tabs, +40 %), Space (1 slot, +$1), overwrite.place (1 slot, for agents).
  • You want a spot to defend for $1: Square Town. Pick a cell, get evicted for double, evict them back for double again — see the economics of eviction.
  • You want to evict on a map or canvas rather than a wall of links: earth.tattoo or Tocka.

Whichever you pick, budget for losing. Every site here is designed so that someone can pay more than you did; the difference is whether you keep anything afterwards (Square Town: a deed and a spot until evicted; frontpage.sh: a refund; overwrite.place: a small permanent square; Milliboard: a lower rank).

FAQ

What is Milliboard?

A 2026 pay-to-rank board where you pay any amount and the highest single payment holds #1. Anyone can outbid you by 1¢, there is a Daily Throne and top-3 hall of fame, and the board freezes forever once it reaches $1,337,690.

What is the difference between pay-to-rank and a pixel wall?

Pay-to-rank sorts entries by money — you hold a rank until someone pays more. A wall gives you a fixed spot you chose; on Square Town that spot is yours until someone pays double what you paid to evict you. Rank is a number; a spot is a place.

Which Milliboard alternative has a throne?

Square Town has one Throne (a 4×4 centre tile, $100 intro, doubling per eviction). The Pixel Orbit gives the centre to the highest cumulative payer. overwrite.place and Space have a single slot that behaves like a throne. King of the Ether Throne (2016) was the ancestor of all of them and is dead.

Which is cheapest to get in?

Square Town at $1 per square, Tocka with $1 of free credit, earth.tattoo with a free tile each hour, or SaaSBoard-style free tiles if you don't need a game. Milliboard has no floor but you only rank above people who paid less.

Can I lose my spot on these sites?

Yes, on all of them — that is the genre. On Square Town you are evicted only if someone pays double your price; on Milliboard, FlexList and The Pixel Orbit you slide down whenever anyone spends more; on frontpage.sh you are refunded when outbid.

Does Square Town end like Milliboard does?

No. Square Town has no freeze price; the wall grows in rings each time the live area is 70 % full, up to 1024×1024 (1,048,576 squares). Milliboard stops forever at $1,337,690 by design.

Put your favicon on the wall

1 square = $1, one-time, no account. Paste a URL, pick a cell, done. Open the wall →