The best Million Dollar Homepage alternatives in 2026

The original sold out in 2006. Here is where you can still buy a spot on a shared wall, from $1 up.

The Million Dollar Homepage was a 1,000×1,000-pixel page that sold pixels at $1 each in 10×10 blocks and sold out in 2006. You cannot buy into it anymore, so "Million Dollar Homepage alternatives" means live walls where you can still buy a spot today. The short answer: Square Town (square.pov.town) is the cheapest live one at $1 per square with a game attached; The Forever Wall, Million Squares Project and Link for a Dollar are the closest static $1-a-square clones; Milliboard and SaaSBoard are the two 2026 sites with the most buyers.

TL;DR (as of August 2026): Want the classic "buy pixels, upload an image" experience — The Forever Wall, Million Squares Project or Project Pixel, $1 a pixel/square. Want the cheapest possible spot with an actual audience loop — Square Town, $1 a square, favicon auto-fetched, evictable for double. Want to be number one rather than somewhere — Milliboard. Want a business directory look — SaaSBoard.

Why the Million Dollar Homepage itself is not an option#

Alex Tew's page launched in 2005, sold pixels at $1 each with a $100 minimum (10×10 blocks), and sold out within five months for $1.04M; the last 1,000 pixels went at auction for $38,100. It has been a frozen archive ever since. As of August 2026 roughly 40 % of its links are dead — the buyers moved on, the page did not. It is a museum piece, and a good one, but you can't buy a pixel there and haven't been able to for twenty years. Read our take in Square Town vs the Million Dollar Homepage and the longer history at The Million Dollar Homepage, 21 years later: what survived and what didn't.

The alternatives at a glance#

The 12 best Million Dollar Homepage alternatives#

1. Square Town — a favicon wall where every square is 1×1 and costs $1, one-time, via Stripe. You paste a URL, Square Town fetches the favicon, you click an empty cell; there is no upload, no account, no sizes. What makes it more than a clone: any square can be evicted by paying double what its owner paid, a 4×4 Throne in the centre starts at $100 and doubles per eviction, icons nobody has "kissed" for 90 days fade to grayscale, and the wall only grows (16×16 → 32×32 → … up to 1024×1024) once the live area is 70 % full, so it never looks empty. Every buy and eviction is pushed live to all open browsers, and a 3D view turns each favicon into a tower whose height is its click count. Best for: anyone with a URL and $1 who wants a spot people actually revisit. Drawbacks, honestly: no image upload (your favicon is your ad, so it had better be good), no big blocks, and "forever*" carries an asterisk — someone can evict you for double. See Pricing — $1 a square, one time, forever*.

2. The Forever Wall — the purest 2026 restatement of the original: $1 buys one pixel on a 1,000,000-pixel wall, you upload an image and link, and it is yours permanently. Best for: people who want the classic image-block experience without a $100 minimum. Drawback: it is static — nothing happens after you buy, and no game gives visitors a reason to come back. Full comparison: Square Town vs The Forever Wall: $1 favicon square or $1 pixel forever?.

3. Million Squares Project — $1 per square on a 1000×1000 grid, paid via Stripe, with drag-select for blocks and an image or GIF per block linking out. Has a Hall of Founders and is tied to a $MSP memecoin. Best for: buyers who want an animated GIF block for a dollar a square. Drawback: 17 of a million squares sold as of August 2026, and the memecoin angle will put some people off. See Square Town vs Million Squares Project: static squares or evictions?.

4. Link for a Dollar — $1 per square, $4 for a 2×2, $25 for a 5×5, on a permanent 1M-square public grid with category browsing, a click-count leaderboard and email-domain verification. Best for: brands that want a verified, categorised listing rather than art. Drawback: five of a million squares claimed as of August 2026 — a near-empty wall is a lonely place. See The best Link for a Dollar alternatives in 2026.

5. Project Pixel — $1 per pixel, drag-select, no account needed, image or pixel art plus link per block, and a live leaderboard of the biggest owners. Best for: anyone who wants an MDH-style block with a bit of competition. Drawback: the only game is "who spent the most".

6. myPixelit — $1 per pixel (minimum five) via Stripe on a 1000×1000 collaborative canvas; you paint your pixels, attach a URL and a hover message, and the canvas updates in real time with a timelapse and a charity cut. Best for: pixel-art people who like watching the wall change live. Drawback: you have to make something out of five painted pixels; no favicon or logo shortcut.

7. The Million Dollar Homepage 2 — zone pricing from $1 to $2 per pixel with a 10-pixel minimum, Stripe checkout, image or colour plus link, and a 10-minute reservation while you pay. Best for: buyers who want centre pricing to mean something. Drawback: zero sold as of August 2026.

8. One Million Pixels (.ai) — $1 per pixel across a million pixels, with a free tier, an API and a pitch aimed at AI agents buying on your behalf. Best for: developers automating placements. Drawback: no favicon auto-fetch, no eviction — a static wall with an API.

9. 3MPixel — the cheapest per pixel at $0.10 (minimum 10×10 = $10) on a 2000×1500 canvas, with a resale marketplace, reservations and a leaderboard. Best for: anyone who wants a big block cheaply, or wants to flip it later. Drawback: zero sold as of August 2026, and three million pixels is a lot of empty. See Square Town vs 3MPixel: $1 favicon squares or 10¢ pixels?.

10. The Pixel Orbit — you pay per rectangle (a 5×5 is $2.50) and the highest total payer holds the exact centre, with the whole canvas re-sorting around them; you can be outbid, and there is a leaderboard. Best for: people who care about being in the middle. Drawback: your position depends on cumulative spend, so you never own a fixed spot. See Square Town vs The Pixel Orbit: fixed squares or a re-sorting canvas?.

11. Milliboard — not a grid at all: pay any amount and the highest single payment holds #1, outbid by 1¢, with a Daily Throne and top-3 hall of fame; the board freezes forever once it hits $1,337,690. Best for: anyone who wants rank, not real estate. Drawback: no spatial ownership, no favicons, and it ends on purpose. See Square Town vs Milliboard: spatial wall or pay-to-rank list?.

12. SaaSBoard — a 100×100 grid where a 1×1 logo tile is free and bigger blocks cost $10 per tile per month or $100 per tile per year, with drag-to-pick position and size and a description under each logo. Best for: SaaS founders who want a free listing and might pay for a bigger one. Drawback: subscription upsell, uploaded logo, no game. See Square Town vs SaaSBoard: $1 favicon square or free logo tile?.

How to choose#

• You want the 2005 experience: The Forever Wall, Million Squares Project or Project Pixel. Upload an image, pay $1 a pixel, done.
• You have $1 and a favicon: Square Town. Pick a spot, no upload, no sizes. Read How to pick a good square on the wall (location strategy) first.
• You want to be visibly first: Milliboard (rank by payment) or The Pixel Orbit (centre by spend). Expect to be outbid.
• You want the wall to still be alive in a year: pick a site with a reason to return. The pixel-wall graveyard is full of static grids that copied the layout and not the moment.
• You want a directory more than a wall: SaaSBoard or Link for a Dollar.

Two cautions. First, none of these — Square Town included — is an SEO product; treat them as visibility, showcase and fun, not link equity. Second, "forever" always means "as long as the site's hosting bill gets paid"; Square Town's runs on Cloudflare's free tier, which is the honest reason we say forever with a straight face. For a full ranking see Every pixel wall you can still buy a spot on, ranked (August 2026).

FAQ#

Can you still buy pixels on the Million Dollar Homepage?#

No. It launched in 2005 and sold out within five months for $1.04M, and has been a frozen archive since. Any pixels "for sale" elsewhere under that name are clones.

What is the closest thing to the Million Dollar Homepage today?#

For the exact mechanic — $1 a pixel, upload an image, permanent — The Forever Wall and Million Squares Project are the closest as of August 2026. For the feeling of a live, contested wall, Square Town is closer: $1 a square, favicon auto-fetched, evictable for double.

What is the cheapest Million Dollar Homepage alternative?#

Per placement, Square Town at $1 for one square (a whole favicon, not a pixel). Per pixel, 3MPixel at $0.10, but with a $10 minimum block. SaaSBoard gives away a 1×1 tile free.

Do pixel walls give you SEO backlinks?#

Not in any way you should pay for. Square Town's outbound clicks are 302 redirects through /go/:id on a WebGL canvas, and most walls render images. Some logo boards advertise "dofollow" links; judge those on their own claims. Buy a square for visibility and the showcase, not PageRank.

Why did the Million Dollar Homepage clones mostly die?#

Almost every 2005–07 national clone is parked and about 120 of the 434 walls we track are dead or dormant. The pattern is consistent: a grid you buy into once and never revisit has no traffic after launch week. Walls with a loop — evictions, thrones, decay, live updates — are the ones that survive.

Is Square Town really "forever"?#

It is a one-time $1 payment with no expiry and no subscription. But anyone can evict your square by paying double what you paid, and an icon nobody kisses for 90 days fades to grayscale (still yours). So: forever, unless someone evicts you.