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 free 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, free to claim, evict for double ($1 minimum), 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, 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 | free (evict for $1+); Throne intro $100 | Favicon (from URL) + link, on a grid | Evict for 2× with $1 minimum, Throne doubles per eviction, free public kisses, 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
Square Town — a favicon wall where each 1×1 square is free (no card, no account, no upload — paste a URL and an email address 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, $1 minimum (so $1 for a free square, paid by card via Stripe), and the eviction is announced in the live feed. Add free public kisses (each one a storey on the icon's tower), click-height 3D towers and rings that unlock at 75 % fill. Best for: anyone who wants a place on the board and a cheap way in; the Throne is the fight, the free 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 — a square is free, forever* and the Throne explained.
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?.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?.
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 or 3D. See Square Town vs Tocka: favicon wall or penny-war pixel canvas?.
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, 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 nothing: Square Town. Pick a cell free, get evicted for $1, evict them back for $2, and so on — 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 ($1 minimum) 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, where a square is free and only evictions cost (from $1); 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 ($1 minimum); 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 75 % full, up to 1024×1024 (1,048,576 squares). Milliboard stops forever at $1,337,690 by design.